1. Which stereotypes or common misconceptions about transsexuals does Tran-Sister Radio challenge? Which stereotype/ misconception did you hold about transsexuals and learned differently from the book? What about Transamerica? What about from listening to Skye? There are stereotypes about transgender people being confused with their own identities. However, after reading Trans-Sister Radio, I can see how strongly Dana knew herself that she should have been a woman instead of a man. Even though Dana's parents were against her decision and asked her to reconsider about her surgery, she said to herself, "There wasn't a singly lingering doubt anywhere inside my gray matter. I was going to live what I hoped would be the rest of a long and healthy life as a woman  (133). Her insistence taught me how transgender people are not confused their gender identities but understand their identities as much as I do. Even after her surgery, she also said "I had never been confused about gender: I knew as a little kid that something screwy had happened and I'd been dropped inside the wrong skin  (328). Therefore, it's definitely a stereotype that people think that transgender people are confused with their identities. In the movie Transamerica, in Mary Ellen's house, there was a man said to Toby that, "We are not gender challenged, we are gender gifted. I've been woman and I've been man, and I know more things than you single sex-people can even imagine  (William & Tucker, 2005). That really stood out to me when he said that because people always think transgender people are challenging the nature and challenging their genders. However, they might be just gender gifted and they certainly do know more compare to us, since we are never bothered much about our own identity. People always think that transgender people are mentally ill and I am sure that it is not true after listening to Skye. The whole time I was when listening to him, he sounded just as normal as everybody else in class. He has just only experienced something that we have never been through. I have never listened to a transgender to talk about his life and that was a really good experience. These three resources about transgender really taught me about the life transgender face and feel every day. I learned that we shouldn't always look at things from our own lens, since we will never understand how they truly feel until listening them to talk and think from their perspectives instead of being so stubborn. 2. Trans-Sister Radio is alternately narrated by Carly, Will, Allison, and Dana. What effect does this have on YOU in reading this book? What effect did hearing Skye have on your opinions? Does your opinion change as a result of hearing the story in these separate narratives? Narrator plays an important role in a story because narrator determines whose eyes the reader experiences the story through. By incorporating four different narratives, I get to hear all sides of the story with different points of view and let me form my own opinions about the story, which makes the story less biased. For example, just by reading from Dana's point of view, I might not have gotten to acknowledge all the issues that have been brought into Allie's life. For example, the parents of her students thought that she should not be teaching in the school anymore since she was dating a transgender woman. We play different roles in lives. Some of us are the daughters of others, the girlfriends of others, or the parents of others. Each of the roles faces different problems and take different responsibilities. Telling the story with different narrators who play different roles in life allows me to read the story with a broader lens. This provides me with multiple levels of meaning, which creates multiple levels of interpretation. For instance, this way of telling a story can expand or shrink the distance between me and the story. I am able to change my sense of what is and what is not important, or better understand in terms of the certain sociological or even ethical issues in the outside world. Hearing Skye's opinions allows me to hear first-hand information. Skye lets me know that life isn't always easy. He has gone through a hard life, from doing the surgery to going to therapy. He lets me know that I am so fortunate that I am happy with my identity and body. I wouldn't say that my opinion changes after hearing the story in these separate narratives since I am not biased against transgender people. However, I think after hearing these people's view, I have a deeper and better understand on the fact that one decision on a person does have an effect on people around you. One decision has an impact on your family, your friends, your clients and your boss. I thought once that I really didn't like the people who were against Dana in the story but then I realized that we are all raised in different environments with different backgrounds. It's impossible for us to have