I believe that a person is born knowing who they are inside but it may not show on the outside. Each person is like a piece of clay that is already colored and textured but needs to be formed so we can see what they are on the outside. Much of this is influenced by the outside world especially by our parents.
The influence of the parents is a very important part of a person’s development in gender. Some families are very open to all types of people. Many times these families welcome who their child really is and pushes them to embrace it. These types of parents would be fully supportive if the child was attracted to the same sex or even both sexes. No matter what the issue is the parents helps the child to grow into who they really are and grow from there. On the other end, there are parents that have their minds set on who their child is. These parents force their children into things that may not be who they are. This only causes problems because the child is made fun of by his/her peers and then feels inferior because of their gender. This type of treatment forms a wall between the parents and their children and a hatred for each other.
Parents really have an amazing control over our confidence and comfortableness with our own selves. Acceptance is what we really need. This allows us to recognize which gender we are and take a hold of it and run with it. This acceptance lets us know that they are proud of who we are and a feeling of content is formed within us. It is this content or feeling of no content that lead us on our paths to embrassing our genders. Unfortunately, sometimes children are forced to hide themselves behind a façade of the other gender but really inside. Parents must really be careful, they hold more power over a human than they know.
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