Gwen Araujo Blog

After watching the the story of Gwen "A girl like me" many thoughts and different emotions came to my mind. I felt confunded, sad, and hurt by Gwens story. Transgender is a very delicate subject to talk about in my opinion, and it is even more difficult when you have never personally been in a situation like this or knows anyone that been through this. 

Many of my opinions come from my religious beliefs. If you ask me what I think about someone being transgender or about gender in general I would start by saying God does not make any mistakes. I understand not everyone believes in God or is religious and may not undrstand where I am coming from and I respect that. I do believe God made us the way we are for a purpose and I personally do not agree that someone should try to go agents that. Many times we as humans can get confused and not be sure of what we really want. Like I mentioned before, this is a very difficult subject to talk about, because I do not fully understand what transgenders feel or what is going on in their heads. I noticed that in the short film when Gwens mother was speaking to the doctor, the doctor said that sometimes people are born in the wrong body. I do not know exacly how I feel about that or if I truly believe that is possible. I think I would have reacted the same way as the mother and ask for proof since we are talking about science here. I feel like we still til this day do not know how to handle situations like these. We want to be suportive and understand but it is still very hard. I believe we should respect and love anyone even if we see them different. What hurt me and made me feel sad about this film was the fact that Gwen was bullied not just by strangers but by family as well. We can see that since a young age Eddie liked things that mostly girls would like such as makeup and dolls. I don't think evey boy that likes those things is gay or feels like they are a girl and that is what many people think. When I was little I used to like watching Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers and I perferred wearing boy shoes and clothes because they were more comfortable. Later on I grew up being very girly which is why I do not have a problem with boys liking pink and girls liking blue. To me gender does not have color. If there is someone who was born a boy but feels they are a girl inside  or viceversa and wants to get a sex reassignment surgery I would say "go for it" if that is what they really wanted to do. As far as for younger children I belive they should not be allowed to make these decisions until a more mature age. Where they have a better understanding and are sure this is what they truly want. 

There is always going to be people that are going to bully and hate others to the point that lead to murder like in this case, but I am glad we are doing something to stop it or control it more. We as humans should teach one another to respect and treat others equally. We need to find new ways to stop this violence because nobody deserves to die in a very hash way only because they are different.