Coming Out Thesis

The topic I chose is " Why must I come out " and the speaker is Geena Rocero. Geena Rocero is a female transgender fashion model. She tells her audience her experience growing up as a transgender and how coming out has made her achieve her dream becoming a fashion model and find her inner self and inner truth.

Thesis: Coming out for many people are unfortunate:

Many of us are put into boxes due to religion, family, culture, society and even our own bodies.

The reality which we live in suicide rate is nine times higher than that of the general population.

Gender has always been considered a fact, immutable.

The speaker's final conclusion was that that for most of the people whose gender assignment doesn't match there must be a space for

So when I became a fashion model, I felt that I'd finally achieved the dream that I'd always wanted since I was a young child. My outside self finally matched my inner truth, my inner self. For complicated reasons which I'll get to later, when I look at this picture, at that time I felt like, Geena, you've done it, you've made it, you have arrived."

This is pathos because the speaker shares her personal experience by telling the audience how she finally achieved her goals and how coming out has made her find her inner truth and her inner self.

Logos - " For most of my community, this is the reality in which we live. Our suicide rate is nine times higher than that of the general population. Every November 20, we have a global vigil for Transgender Day of Remembrance. I'm here at this stage because it's a long history of people who fought and stood up for injustice."

This is logos because the speaker explains how the suicide rate for transgender people is higher than the general population. Kairos - "Because of my success, I never had the courage to share my story, not because I thought what I am is wrong, but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break