By: Alexis Y. Ortiz
Gwen Araujo was born Edwin Araujo with male genitalia and reprodcutive organs. Shortly into his child his mother noticed that her was more interested in feminine opposed to masculine activities. He was a boy who according to his mother played in girls clothes and toys never trucks or guns like most boys. In an interview his mother gave she explains that Gwen never felt like she was born into the right body. She was not gay, she had just been placed into a body that she could not identify with. In a movie portraying her short life, Eddie began going by Gwen in high school and would wear articles of clothing and accessories that would give him a more feminine appeal. By the time Gwen was in her last year in highschool she was passing as a woman.
Somehow Gwen managed to fool her boyfriend into believing that she was in fact a natural born woman. Her boyfriend was completely oblivious about who she really was. Sylvia Araujo, Gwens mother, decided to tell her boyfriend the truth ultimately leading him to make the decision to discontinue the relationship. Gwen reportedly became very upset and began to spin down a negative spiral. She was reportedly self medication with alcohol to dull the pain she was experiencing from her lovers deep rejection. Not so long after she went to a party and never came out alive. A group of young men forceably revealed her secret and killed her because of it.
Eddie was born a boy at least that is what his birth certificate and genitals would say. What would Gwen Say? Gwen would probably say that she was a whole lot of woman. Her sex may have been male but her gender was as much of a woman as I am.
Gender can be defined as the roles or expectations that go along with being male or female. Gender is something all people do, that distinguishes them as wither male or female. Gender is a socially constructed.
Sexuality is a persons sexual orientation or prefereance. Our society would prefer for relationships to be held within heterosexual couples; however with biology comes variation. There are homosexuals, trisexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals and transgendered individuals among others. A person has the choice to be with whichever sex they desire, although it may not be acknowledged by spciety or the government in most states. 
Gwen Araujo was born Edwin Araujo with male genitalia and reprodcutive organs. Shortly into his child his mother noticed that her was more interested in feminine opposed to masculine activities. He was a boy who according to his mother played in girls clothes and toys never trucks or guns like most boys. In an interview his mother gave she explains that Gwen never felt like she was born into the right body. She was not gay, she had just been placed into a body that she could not identify with. In a movie portraying her short life, Eddie began going by Gwen in high school and would wear articles of clothing and accessories that would give him a more feminine appeal. By the time Gwen was in her last year in highschool she was passing as a woman.
Somehow Gwen managed to fool her boyfriend into believing that she was in fact a natural born woman. Her boyfriend was completely oblivious about who she really was. Sylvia Araujo, Gwens mother, decided to tell her boyfriend the truth ultimately leading him to make the decision to discontinue the relationship. Gwen reportedly became very upset and began to spin down a negative spiral. She was reportedly self medication with alcohol to dull the pain she was experiencing from her lovers deep rejection. Not so long after she went to a party and never came out alive. A group of young men forceably revealed her secret and killed her because of it.
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ReplyDeleteWow what a sad story and I never herd of a trisexual!
ReplyDeleteA trisexual according to an online dictionary is someone who will try anthing.
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