There are many teen couples in the world that look like "your typical young couple"; however, this couple in particular has a history that is so different to many others; they are a transgender couple.
The author starts off the article by introducing the young couple and then described each of the lovers' story behind to their own transition.
When I first read the article's title, "Arin Andrews and Katie Hill, transgender Teenage Couple, Transition Together," a question immediately popped into my head: why did they go through transition?
Arin said that he felt uncomfortable about his body when he was a girl and completely felt like "himself" after the transition. To be honest, feeling uncomfortable about your body can be a natural fear or nervousness to some people, but I believe that this is a whole other level. Although I do not completely understand his true motive to go through transition, I do not think that he needed to go through transition to "feel comfortable."
Katie Hill, however, had a clear motive to this action and great change to herself. As a boy, She was bullied and abused in school by the students there. She said that she always imagined herself as the bride when she was a little boy and would wear a white dress at home, pretending to be walking down the isle of a wedding. I believe that she thought about becoming a transgender for a long time and that she didn't want to be bullied any longer. Her motive seem more reasonable than Arin's, yet it is quite a drastic step in life.
Katie and Arin do face some difficulties in their social life when they publicize their secrets, but they are truly in love with each other and content with their new selves.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/23/transgender-teenage-couple-arin-andrews-katie-hill_n_3639220.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
I have a question about what you. You made it seem as if those two were unhappy as the gender that they were born as. If Arin and Katie felt so uncomfortable as the opposite gender, why did they become transgender? It seems to me that they are happy being the gender that they were born as, so I have no idea why they would go though all the trouble of being both.
ReplyDeleteI don't quite understand your question. It seems that you either didn't read the article or you are misunderstanding it. The two WERE unhappy with the genders they were born as. Arin even states that he "hated [his] breasts, "[feeling] like they didn’t belong." They went through transgender so that they could "finally feel comfortable in [their] own [bodies]." Because of their transitions, the two are now content with themselves.
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