MTV Show

Yesterday we watched a reality show from MTV which focused on a gay teen, lesbian young adult, and a transgender man. I really liked the style in which this show was set up. Each segment was established with videos of people who are dealing or have dealt with being gay or transgender; I think MTV did a good job in getting their point across with that. Then the main part of the show focused on those three people and something that they were going through. The gay teen was having a hard time coming out to his parents so his part of the show was him trying to get enough courage and find the right time to tell his parents. We see him come out to his peers and it seemed to really help him come out to his parents. From seeing his experience, that must be really hard for any gay teenager to do. Another third of the show was dedicated to a lesbian young adult who’s mom hard a hard time accepting her as well as her partner. We see the struggle and fight about he she just wants her mom to accept her for who she is and be able to accept her partner. Last, and probably the most interesting part of the show, was the transgender, who changed from girl to boy, was trying to get married to another women. His drivers license said male, but his birth certificate said female. He looked like a male and really seemed to be in love with his fiancée.  To me, this was the biggest issue in this show because should a transgender person be allowed to get married? And if yeah, what sex? I believe in this persons case, marriage should be allowed. He has been a man for a lot of his life and he said “99% of my life is male, except for my birth certificate which is the 1%.” This guy showed how passionate he was towards being a male and really believed that he should be allowed to get married. Yet, he was nervous because of his birth certificate and his state doesn’t accept same sex marriages. He got his marriages license and I definitely think that is legal. One thing that this show did was all three stories had happy endings. This was done to show people who might feel like this, that in the end it will get better. This show was merely trying to help out people who fall under one of those three categories and I believe that the did a very good job with that.