Bruce Jenner's Synthesis Essay

In today’s progressive world, the millennial generation has been known to push back on traditional societal norms. Teenagers today live in a completely altered world compared to their parents’ adolescence. Previous generations did not explore the uncharted waters of gender conformity as much as the youth in 2017. There is certainly more to a person than what he or she posts on social media, but this online world with a plethora of sites and profiles has exposed the younger generations to a new way to find their identity. Modern technology has offered more exposure to diversity than whatever dial-up internet access could offer in in 1980’s. Late nights are consumed by different means of social media, stalking their best friend’s ex-boyfriend’s account on Facebook, coming up with the perfect caption for the weekly “throwback …show more content…
Jenner has made it seem that his female soul was born into his male body, that his preferred gender of female did not concur with his male sex. For those who align their judgement with religious backing, the heroism of Bruce Jenner is repudiated. For Jenner to claim he has a female soul, it must be asked where this soul came from. If there is no greater good, or Almighty God, we would have no souls and our existence would prove to be nothing more than raw matter. Yet if we have souls there must be something beyond our material, mortal bodies. With this, many Christians who reject transgenderism keep this reasoning, that our souls come from God and the omnipotent God does not make mistakes. The transgender movement seems to want to erase the idea of gender and reinforce it altogether. Conformity to gender stereotypes is rejected more and more as generations pass. Today’s youth don’t want to be put into categories, but at the same time they transfer themselves by self-declaration from one category to another. Rebellion is on the rise, and so is