Transgender and New Age Thing

In life people feel uncomfortable in all sorts of situations. When you were five you were uncomfortable meeting new and strange people. When you were in middle school you were uncomfortable talking to adults. In high school you were uncomfortable talking in front of the class to give a presentation or a speech. However, in each of these cases the uncomfortable feeling eventually went away. Some times after the task was done and over with you realized that it was not all that uncomfortable to do. Unfortunately, there are people out there who feel uncomfortable all of the time. Transgender people feel uncomfortable in their bodies until they under go a gender reassignment surgery. According to the website www.gendercentre.org, “transsexualism is a condition in which a person experiences a discontinuity between their assigned sex and what they feel their core gender is.” Sometimes when people who are born a male and have been living as a man their whole lives, decide to take actions to start becoming the internal gender that have believed that they are their whole life seriously. A male would start taking precautions into becoming a female. A male would start dressing like a female and start taking estrogen pills. A female might take testosterone pills, start working out more, and start dressing more like a male. Depending on the needs of the person, transgender people have their own way of deciding how far they want to go through with the process. To become a total transgender person they must under go the gender reassignment surgery. Many people think that transgender and gender reassignment surgery is the new age thing. However, they could not me more wrong. Biography.com said, “Gender reassignment surgery has been going on since the 1920’s in Europe.” Also according to http://lgbthistorymonth.com, “The first American to undergo the gender reassignment surgery in 1952 was George Jorgensen who is now know as Christine Jorgensen.” Christine was the first but not