Summary Of The Empire Strikes Back

In The Empire Strikes Back by Sandy Stone there are many arguments and facts that are exposed to the reader. Throughout the piece of writing the author mentions the idea of “acceptance”. The idea of acceptance not only applies to society, but to the individuals as well. As Stone mentions many transgendered people are not happy with who they are. They embark on a journey not only to change their appearance, but to change who they are. As the author mentions many people who undergo a sex change do it during the third and fourth decade of their life. By that time many of those individuals have lived a life in which they have not been fully happy with who they are. They have created long lasting relationships and memories throughout those years.
Take Buck Angel for example. He was a born a man yet he has not had a sex change operation. Throughout his documentary we see just how important and dedicated he is to tearing down the “abnormalities” surrounding transsexuals. Throughout most of his life he knew and felt that he was meant to be a man. As mentioned by his sister, while the girls played with other girls, he (she at the time) would go outside and play with the boys. To everyone in the family it seemed normal but as buck grew people began to notice just how different he really was. From a young age he embarked on a journey that till this day, as he mentions in the documentary, he is still on. But what is most fascinating about buck is the fact that he is happy and even embraces who he is not just as a man, but as a woman as well. He had no need to undergo a sex change in order to feel complete, because in his mind the change was within. As he mentions throughout the video, just because he does have a vagina it does not make him less of a man. A person is not defined by their gender, a person is defined by who they are and how they see