Human Sexuality Report

I believe that the effect that this Human Sexuality course has had on me was very different than it would have had for the general public. My family happens to be very conservative (typical in Alberta I know). For instance, my maternal grandmother believed that women only had 2 holes and that our vagina and urethra was in the same whole just like males, rather than us having 3 separate holes- the vagina opening, anus opening, and the urethra opening. However, the conservative nature of my family was destroyed and we became more liberal when my mother had me at seventeen and then, was raped at and had her second oldest daughter and my first sister at the age of nineteen. Then we learnt that my aunt was also sexually assaulted, she then married
Because of this class I know understand that a transgender individual is an individual whose appearance or behaviors do not conform traditional gender roles, these individuals do not what to change their physical bodies. And, a transvestite is an individual who chooses to and find joy in cross dressing. It was actually really funny, during the time that we were talking about sexuality in class my grandmother came over and was talking about this male that came into her place of work all dressed like a female. I was so grateful that I was able to sit down with my grandmother, explain to her what this individual was doing and why they may have been doing as such. Afterwards I was able to explain to her how an individual may choose to go through the sex reassignment process and change their sex to their natural gender. One thing that we talked about in the sexuality unit was the idea of two spirits, which is a theory present in a lot of indigenous communities. Two spirited individuals are people who express characteristics of both male and female gender roles and are a great value to the community. I love this idea and it will stick with me forever because, it shows such a natural and beautiful state of equality and that everybody no matter how they choose to live their life are valuable to a
I was so excited to take this class and it has not disappointed me one bit. I know that it may be a little odd for you to receive a paper as such where the first paragraph is filled with such personal information. However, I felt like it was important for me to share with you. I felt this way because I didn’t know how to start a paper by just saying that a lot of the things we learned I have talked about at home, that doesn’t make for a very realistic or respectable argument. I felt like it was important for you to know that it was not because of your teaching that I may not have come out of this class with as much as an eye opening as other students, but that it was my life events that have pushed/allowed for me to have this understanding or perspective on human sexuality. Thank you very