My Life in Pink

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Education 7922 Film Paper: My Life in Pink Transgender is the state of one’s gender identity not matching their assigned sex. Transgender individuals belong to the LGBT community. In the film Ludo is experiencing gender confusion. Ludo believes that he is a girl and is meant to grow up into a woman. His sexual orientation was even that of a female, expressing romantic interest in a male, wanting to dress up in dresses, ect. This gives the community a negative outlook on him and his family. The neighbors wish to keep Ludo away from their son, who Ludo is in love with and said that he will marry him once he grows into a woman. Ludo’s parents send Ludo to a psychiatrist. In my opinion I feel that the counseling did not help Ludo because he still had embedded in his believe that he is a female. I disagree with Ludo’s mother’s behavior towards his gender confusion. I feel that she condoned his behavior and actually helped to let him believe that he is a female. I agree that Ludo was trying to find his identity, which is a normal phase that all children experience, however I think that it is the role of parents to help children find themselves by explaining to them their gender and what is the role that a person of that gender is suppose to follow. If it turns out that that child becomes transgender, at least that parent has done their job as a parent by educating that child what his/her role entails. If I had an opportunity to counsel Ludo I would want to try and find out where this feeling of him having a different gender stems from. I’m curious to know is it the fact that he observes his mom and admire her? Or he has a bad outlook on the male role. I think Ludo would be an interesting client for me to counsel because I feel that children going through that type of issue need someone to talk to that would be non judgmental and that is a counselor’s job. Overall I
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