Patricia Monologue

While attending a gathering in Houston, I met Patricia. Patricia was born a male named Patrick. I asked her when did she become transgender and she told me that her earliest memory was around age 4, she recognized that something” didn’t feel right within herself”. Her parents kept referring to her as a boy but his brain kept insisting that he was a girl. She indicated that “I was left in a state of confusion”. She said “As a child, you want to please your parents and do as they tell you, but I wanted something very different from what my parents expected”. They provided him with toys that were “gender-marked” for boys, but she wanted to play with dolls, play dress-up, and jump rope like the other girls were doing. Around age 5 or 6, guest speakers came

Rocky helped her through countless rough patches in her life. Patricia also hid the bullying from her parents because she didn’t know how to tell them what was really going on. She felt that if she told them about the bullying, then she would have to tell them my secret too. Truth be told, she thought something was significantly wrong and she felt like a pervert. In Patricia’s mind, her family would be very ashamed and disowned her if they found out.

Although Patricia was born a male named Patrick, she indicated to me that early on she was attracted to males. She did not identify herself as gay because she knew she was a female.

According to Susan Stryker, transgender-identified people, sexual desire is still generally encoded as either heterosexual or homosexual (or, indeed, bisexual). That is, sexual identity is usually claimed by transgender-identified people in accordance with their gender of identity.

While most transgender identified people insist on the differences between homosexuality and transgender identity and many also identify as homosexual, based on their erotic and affective attraction to people who share the same gender category with which they