In the Observational Documentary, “Growing up Trans”, we are able to peer into the lives of transgender children, observing their everyday struggles as they live a life once considered an unadulterated taboo. This Documentary explores the different ways gender identity can affect the course of a child’s life as well as their quality of adolescence. From a young age, people are trained by society, ie, socialized to become participants in the gender to which they were assigned. This gender assignment and socialization based on sex, more often than not results in the systematic acceptance of gender norms( the conformance of gender identity and expression of an individual). Girls are customarily taught to be more feminine and end up spending more
