Overcoming Diversity

It was seventh grade when I officially recognized what it was that made me feel so disconnected from the rest of my peers. This was during the time most kids were growing into their bodies and finding discomfort in how they viewed themselves. I fell into that category in a way many people can’t say they relate. The hatred I felt for my body sprung from something a bit different than the typical middle school bodily insecurities. I grew in the opposite direction from which I knew my gender was. The next three years I descended quickly into a void of self hatred. Every “she”, every “her” stung. I hadn’t been allowed to cut my hair-- mom said I’d look like a boy. Little did she know that’s exactly what I wanted. The summer of freshman year came …show more content…
This campus is extraordinary in how it includes minorities to the best of it’s abilities, and to be able to contribute to this inclusion and affect people one-on-one is just one of my many goals I have. If I am granted the opportunity to influence the campus with my being, I hope through helping others I’ll find the courage within myself to be able to come out to my family. It’s important to me that, as a transgender boy, I can impact as many other students and professors as I can by being open and sharing my adversities and my fun side. With my gender aside, there’s not a thing I love more than the free feeling of genuine glee and laughter, which is something I also plan to bring to the campus life. Making people laugh, being able to experience art together, sharing our hardships and understanding one another, venting our rage together, and just genuinely making my peers feel some sort of way is the way I wish to enrich the community. I want to give this campus what the people in my life have given to me and outstretch my arms to those who have never felt that warm embrace of validation