Much To Live Up To

In 2015, the whole world was exposed to the transgenders through Caitlyn Jenner. Although, people knew about them, the whole world was definitely very aware of them. Despite the media’s approval there was an interesting voice that spoke out about the situation, a woman, Michelle Smith Glass. Going against popular sentiment, she remarked that being a woman is not just a mere matter of just changing your sex, continuing that there is a lot more to it.

Her saying that hit a strong mark. The truth of the matter is, how can just changing your gender mean that you are a man or a woman, when being a man or woman is so much more. It is rather insulting to say the least.

You may be born a male or a female, but men and woman are not born, they are forged. Being a man or woman is not easy, they both have their own very different challenges, arguably one has it harder than the other, but in reality, they are both are just as hard.

To be a man, it is responsibility, duty, strength when you feel weak, and tough, but not rough. For a woman you have to be strong, but you have to have grace, and a lot of times you have to be something that you aren’t because men aren’t doing their part.

Nevertheless, this is just really scratching the surface of what it means to be a man or a woman. How can you describe how hard it is, you have to have courage in the morning and steel in your backbone for tomorrow. It is not little effort to be a man or a woman.

That having said, then you have transgender people, they come onto the scene. However, can you really just be called a man or a woman when you take a couple of pills or have some surgery? The answer would be no, whether you are for or against transgenders. The reason so is, even if transgenders could magically change their bodies, which is not possible, but if it was, they would only be either a female or a male. For as mentioned before, you are born a male or a female, but being a man or a woman is a choice.

Being born a man or woman and then making the decision to be an honorable and excellent one is hard. Becoming something that you weren’t born as changing your body to be a male or female is hard, all those drugs, all those surgeries, it is a long journey. However, despite as hard it is, it will never be as hard as becoming a man or a woman that is honorable and excellent. Pulling aside the drugs the surgeries and all the other betweens, a transgender male or female, have a lot to live up to. Joining the ranks of true men and women, who are responsible and gentle, is something that cannot happen as easily as one would think.