This week I learned that no matter who you are, whatever you consider yourself to be, and what others see you as, sometimes you can’t even tell yourself who you are. I noticed this while writing slogans and quotes. For the past three days, I have seen that you can say the same thing in so many different ways and they will still mean the same thing. This is relevant to my topic because you always have to be careful when addressing a transgender person and making sure you use the right pronouns. My group and I watched a video about the girl in our book, Nicole, and she mentioned what happened to her at school a few times which was that people were telling her which bathroom she could and couldn’t use, not the one she identified with. It goes to show that people are taught, growing up, that girls and boys have to be a certain way when in reality that isn’t true at all. My slogan was “the body and the brain don’t always agree” and I have never realized it but it’s true. The parts of your body do not tell you who you are, your brain does. Just because someone has breasts does not mean they are a girl, and just because they have boy parts doesn't mean they’re a boy. Everyone is born with a brain but not one brain is alike. Just like we all think differently, we all are different. Whether that means we’re born a girl and know we are a girl, or are born looking like a girl but feel like we are supposed to be a boy.
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