I worked in a group with four other people, not only did this experience help me understand, as most group work does, how to work with diverse individuals and ideas but also how topics such as the one we chose, gender identity in public schools, have developed over time. This project highlighted for me how issues today have been impacted by historical beliefs, ideologies and experienced their own ecological system of development. Gender identity was initially seen as an illness to be cured and hidden, then slowly the ideas shifted to be included in the DSM as a diagnosis and I feel now slowly shifting away from the concept of having to conceptualize gender identity and towards the acceptance of diversity. The project was a great way to see
