The film itself truly surprised me due to its very real, vivid representation of the negligence in some countries to sexually educate their people. The most appalling detail in the film, in my opinion, was that young girls would drop out of college after getting their periods. That ignorance, in itself, creates many inequalities between men and women from an early age. The less women obtain a college education, the less their salaries will be, and the lack of education will also place them at a lower place than that of men. The fact that this is occurring due to the inability of the people of India to disclose the fact that menstrual cycles are a completely normal thing that all women undergo, and to explain that in a manner at home and schools in which all children understand it is crazy to me. This is how we end up with more discrimination between and within genders and a huge gap between the success of men and women. The readings also surprised me because both really showed the discrimination that exists between race/gender in our society. “A Birth Story” was interesting to read to see how the narrator’s experience of giving birth was affected by her race, which is the last thing you would probably associate with birth-giving. The readings were similar in that they dealt with discrimination in the medical field. It’s so important to understand medical oppression because of it’s importance in people’s health and well-being. The article “12 Reasons It Should Be Illegal for Doctors Not to Treat Trans People” was really shocking to me because I would not even think that doctors and insurance companies would really neglect taking care of or providing service to transgender individuals. Our system is so flawed and the medical field is imperative to everyone’s daily lives. Trans people or any people should not be rejected any kind of care simply because of their identity. The format of this article, especially the end where all the people speaking out against the proposed law told their views on this, really touched my heart because this really affects so many people’s lives. There was one, specifically, that said that these trans people could be absolutely anyone — you, your coworker, a family member, a friend, and that’s really why understanding these complexities in identity and normalizing them rather than labeling them as deviating from the norm is imperative.