Summary: A Transgender Moment

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“A Transgender Moment”

Its obvious that the LGBT community has become a popular topic today, as of late the spotlight has been on gender re-assignment which is going through numerous procedures with the intention of changing one’s sex. In this essay I will be consider both sides to this issue on whether it is or isn’t possible for one to feel as though they were born in the wrong body. Thus, discussing the pure thought of what makes one want to undergo a gender re-assignment; in the article “Speaking Out About the Transgender ‘Delusion’” Walter Heyer claims that gender re-assignment is a mental disorder while Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, insists in the article Bruce Jenner: 'I 'm a Woman’, that for years he was struggling
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Recently Bruce Jenner, now known as Caitlyn Jenner, fully transitioned to a woman and this decision has made everyone turn heads towards Bruce with many questions, all narrowing down to “why?”. In an exclusive interview with Diane Sawyer followed by an article Bruce Jenner: 'I 'm a Woman ' Bruce aka Caitlyn claimed that My brain is much more female than it is male…It’s hard for people to understand that, but that’s what my soul is -“Bruce Jenner ‘I am a woman’”. This interview was aimed towards the Transgender community and anyone who wants to understand what Bruce is going through. Bruce speaks out in the interview and talks to Sawyer as if he is speaking to the world telling his story, and in the process crying and explain his frustrations of what he had to go through as a woman in a man’s body. Additionally, now that Bruce is a woman, it is safe to say that he truly believes he is a woman but it also gives the world a glimpse of his mind showing and how serious bruce really is. This article can’t be flawed because this is how bruce feels and In my opinion, I believe that though society can assume how a person feels based on science and research assumption is never 100% accurate. The article supports what Bruce is claiming because no can say: “No bruce your wrong, that’s not how your soul feels”, because no is Bruce Jenner but Bruce

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