Like the rest of my classmates, I did learn a great deal from “Strip”. I appreciate the fact that it gave it gave me yet another unique perspective to the worlds of transsexual people. The fact that it has nothing to do with sexuality is so powerful. The author said herself that she was attracted to women. I also respected the essay because it showed the reader that being transsexual is just one aspect of a person’s life. It seems that society tries to fit homosexuals, transgender, and transsexual people into a little bubble, assuming that they are consumed by their sexualities. They speak of these people as if their sexual or gender preference is the only thing that matters in their lives. But they have o survive through everyday trials just the same as we all do. The author showed us more that just the trials that she had to overcome by her being transsexual but by her being handicap as well. I am not going to get into the homosexuality and God conversation that Whitney and Tracie started but I would like to say that I have been dealing with thee issues within myself. I am struggling with what I will tell my children but I think that if they ask me whether being gay is right or wrong I will say that it is God’s decision to make and not ours. That way that will understand that they have no place to judge and can still feel comfortable talking to me about it b/c I will not judge them. These topics, and body image as a whole, change faces completely when raising children becomes involved. What you say and believe becomes that much more important I must say that I have been confronted with a lot of different voices and points of view while being in this class and I have taken away so much even though I did not agree with everything that I\heard. Hopefully I have offered you all something as well. Meeting all of you has definitely been interesting and I think that I am much more prepared to have these conversations with my children even though I have a long time before I will have to do that