The Misrepresentation of the Transgender Community
I can’t understand what it would be like to question your own gender identity but I can picture that it would be a bitter and confusing emotional rollercoaster. You’re born into a body where your sex does not define your gender. All you want to do is express yourself in a completely different way to how others perceive you but are conflicted in doing so, fearing how others will react. We need to understand this because this is exactly what it is like for people who are transgender. For 20-year-old Taryn Dorrough who was assigned female at birth, questioning his gender identity was a process of discovering who he was and how he wanted to identify and express himself. Most of all, it was a process of what made him happy. Today, Taryn has agreed to share his experience of coming out as transgender and identifying as transmasculine on this spectrum. This means a person born female who, on the binary spectrum with male at one end and female at the other, sits on the male’s side of
