Stephanie Skora’s talks started out with definitions so everyone was on the same page of certain terms she would be using in her presentation. She defined sex in the biological terms along with gender identity, gender presentation, and gender expression. These terms are often misinterpreted by people who may not understand the difference between gender and sex especially if they are apart of a different generation. As she went on with her personal story of how she was raised as a proper jewish boy to one day be a good man as her parents wanted; however, she noticed that her interests lay else where as she was playing with female toys such a the pretty pretty dress up game and was getting involved in theater in highschool as she was growing up along with other activities. …show more content…
She has always known that somethings about the anatomical sex she was given was off to her, so after years of soul searching she finally came out to her friends about being transgender. After finally figuring out her gender, she kept it from her religious family as they would disapprove if they ever knew; however, once the word was out she receive harassment from her aunt and was practically disowned from her family. With no family buy her side, she set off to finding a new family realizing that she was not alone as her family would consist of people who would want to be around her and accept her. Her friends. Although, I regret not asking her what male name was before and why she chose