According to an online dictionary, the definition of transgender is, “denoting or relating to a person whose self-identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male or female gender.”

I do not contest the validity of those who feel the bodies they were born into do not correspond with their sense of selves. However, if the above definition is taken for its word, then I too am transgender.

I have always resented restrictions dictated by society’s determined gender roles. Should my gender define my interests, what I should or should not be good at, what I can and cannot do?

Perhaps these individuals are fighting for the right to be themselves and for us all to be free of conventional notions.