Introduction – The transformationThe presence of gender in the 21st century is no longer black and white (and has never been explicitly masculine or feminine at any time). At a time when everyone is seeking acceptance, regardless of their social point of view, the age of questionnaires and government documents asking whether you are a man or a woman has become extremely complex. “Gender” as a concept represented through the body is not simply a configuration of how the body was formed. Rather, gender is performed and represented through and using the body – thus referencing Waskul and Vannini's theory of the embodied body when they state in their piece Body/Embodiment: Social Interaction and the Sociology of the Body (2006) , “a person does not inhabit a static object body but is subjectively embodied in a fluid, emergent and negotiated process of being. In this process, the body, the self, and social interaction are interdependent to such an extent that the distinctions between them are not only permeable and changing, but also actively manipulated and configured” (Waskul & Vannini, 2006, p. 3). By assuming the body of an overtly transgender man and performing that body in the small town of Orangeville, Ontario, during the deeply eventful holiday month of December, the comparative experience of various incarnations between myself as a young white woman and myself as an overtly transgender man has led to a variety of emotional and social repercussions that will be theorized and analyzed throughout this research article. To begin this article, in figure "a" below, there is a photographic transition of myself as the woman I usually embody in my daily interactions, and how I transition from a woman to a man ...... middle of paper ......=f47b220c8daaa4f55eb899eebe14ad57&t=1388793189&h=D5E07F4B113134B24D09DD1F638C8962AF2AB07F&s=20489029&ut=823&pg=1&r= img&c=-1&pat= nCrossley, N. (2006). The networked body and the question of reflexivity. In D. Waskul & P. ​​Vannini (Eds.), Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body. Retrieved from http://ia600800.us.archive.org/19/items/BodyembodimentSymbolicInteractionAndTheSociologyOfBody/BodyEmbodiment-WaskulVannini. pdfShakespeare, W. (1623). As you like it. Retrieved from http://shakespeare.mit.edu/asyoulikeit/full.htmlWaskul, D. and Vannini, P. (2006). Introduction: The body in symbolic interaction. In D. Waskul & P. ​​Vannini (Eds.), Body/Embodiment: Symbolic Interaction and the Sociology of the Body. Retrieved from http://ia600800.us.archive.org/19/items/BodyembodimentSymbolicInteractionAndTheSociologyOfBody/BodyEmbodiment-WaskulVannini. pdf