The question of how my gender has influenced my educational and occupational history is very tricky. I do not want to use the cop out phrase “I only know the world from my perspective”, but in many ways this is the only true answer I could give. I really do not feel like a gender, or like Isaac Preiss (2015), one of the first kids in the US to undergo medical reassignment put it, “I don’t believe there’s a profound truth to my gender or that there’s only one rigid way of expressing it” (para. 15). Yet for the sake of this assignment, I will try to address the question of how my gender has impacted my educational and occupational history.
In 1995, I quit going to school and started working countless odd jobs. This was not a choice per se; it was just the flow that I was caught in. I was only fifteen years old and in a constant pursuit of fun, working gave me the money to fuel that fun. I do not believe that my gender or the way in which I expressed it had much influence on this. I knew people who were male, female and genderqueer that made similar decisions.
In 2004, while playing a small concert I meet a girl. She was the yen to my yang and she was the reason I chose to pursue my GED. One might think that my gender had some part in this, I was a genetic male doing …show more content…
In the beginning, I tried really hard to change this, getting odd jobs and staying in homeless shelters before deciding just to stick it out until my legal matters were finished. It reasonable to hypothesize that if I were a female I would not have made this decision as it is much harder for a female to live on the streets. Not to mention that there are so many more shelters and programs to help homeless women get off the streets than there are for homeless men. Yet I rather feel that no matter my sex, gender, or the way in which I express it, I would have just made the best of this horrible
In 1995, I quit going to school and started working countless odd jobs. This was not a choice per se; it was just the flow that I was caught in. I was only fifteen years old and in a constant pursuit of fun, working gave me the money to fuel that fun. I do not believe that my gender or the way in which I expressed it had much influence on this. I knew people who were male, female and genderqueer that made similar decisions.
In 2004, while playing a small concert I meet a girl. She was the yen to my yang and she was the reason I chose to pursue my GED. One might think that my gender had some part in this, I was a genetic male doing …show more content…
In the beginning, I tried really hard to change this, getting odd jobs and staying in homeless shelters before deciding just to stick it out until my legal matters were finished. It reasonable to hypothesize that if I were a female I would not have made this decision as it is much harder for a female to live on the streets. Not to mention that there are so many more shelters and programs to help homeless women get off the streets than there are for homeless men. Yet I rather feel that no matter my sex, gender, or the way in which I express it, I would have just made the best of this horrible