Gender Bending Party Reflection
Eugenia Lo Yue Ching
We are living in a twisted world. When I first heard of this gender bending party, I did not feel special at all because I experience this gender bending process myself everyday in my life. However, this party did raise the old memories of my teenage days.
I was a typical little girl when I was 3 or 4 years old. I behaved very gently and followed everything my parents said. I also dressed very girlish at that time. I remembered that I refused to wear trousers even we were off to the playground (I just could not believe that I wore a dress to climb up the 'monkey mountain')
2 years old. My hair was such a disaster! I did not wear dress (expect school uniform) since then until entering university.
I kept this hair style for many years the recent year. For 9 years I was living a gender bending life. I was called 'little brother', 'mister' whenever I was out in my casual wear. I am so used to 'be a boy' or 'have a male's identity' that I would not feel embarrassing when the others misjudge my sex. My mother asked me if I needed a transgender operation or not. This is a very inspiring question indeed. I agree with some of the 'trans' revolutionists that male / female norms are no longer objectively defined by the sex organs a person was born with, but subjective and socially constructed (LaBarbera, 2001). Here, the word 'socially' is the focus. The interpretation of gender identity depends mostly on what society you are living in. Furthermore, the appearance cannot tell the whole story of a person. To me, wearing sports wear and clothing that are originally designed for men are just because I feel like to. It is more convenience for me to dress that way. There is nothing to do with psychological abnormality. I like to be a girl. Nevertheless, the others are not thinking in the same way as I am. For many people, especially for my parents' generation would think that you must be homosexual, bisexual or some kind of freak if you dress like the opposite sex.
Eugenia Lo Yue Ching
We are living in a twisted world. When I first heard of this gender bending party, I did not feel special at all because I experience this gender bending process myself everyday in my life. However, this party did raise the old memories of my teenage days.
I was a typical little girl when I was 3 or 4 years old. I behaved very gently and followed everything my parents said. I also dressed very girlish at that time. I remembered that I refused to wear trousers even we were off to the playground (I just could not believe that I wore a dress to climb up the 'monkey mountain')
2 years old. My hair was such a disaster! I did not wear dress (expect school uniform) since then until entering university.
I kept this hair style for many years the recent year. For 9 years I was living a gender bending life. I was called 'little brother', 'mister' whenever I was out in my casual wear. I am so used to 'be a boy' or 'have a male's identity' that I would not feel embarrassing when the others misjudge my sex. My mother asked me if I needed a transgender operation or not. This is a very inspiring question indeed. I agree with some of the 'trans' revolutionists that male / female norms are no longer objectively defined by the sex organs a person was born with, but subjective and socially constructed (LaBarbera, 2001). Here, the word 'socially' is the focus. The interpretation of gender identity depends mostly on what society you are living in. Furthermore, the appearance cannot tell the whole story of a person. To me, wearing sports wear and clothing that are originally designed for men are just because I feel like to. It is more convenience for me to dress that way. There is nothing to do with psychological abnormality. I like to be a girl. Nevertheless, the others are not thinking in the same way as I am. For many people, especially for my parents' generation would think that you must be homosexual, bisexual or some kind of freak if you dress like the opposite sex.
