Author Cris Beam's website has a teacher's guide for Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers. The guide could also work as discussion questions for us. Last month we talked about having discussion questions in mind while reading... so. Take a look. Here are a couple that caught my attention...
1) Cris Beam outlines the difference between being transgender and transsexual. Were you familiar with this distinction before reading the book?
2) How have you defined family throughout your life? Who have your best “parents” been? Did you have the equivalent of a “drag mother,” someone you were not related to but who modeled your ideal and gave you entry into an otherwise closed community?
3) An element of adolescence is experimentation. How, ultimately, do we know which aspects of our behavior are pure experimentation and which ones reflect our true identity? Have you ever encountered a situation in which the line between healthy and harmful experimentation was not easy to discern?
4) What did you learn about the legal quandaries posed by current use of gender-specific language, such as hurdles regarding passports, driver’s licenses, and marriage certificates?
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