Rawi Hage's novel Cockroach is filled with coldness, irony, hatred, love, homosexuality and violence. Judy Ruzylo's documentary, "The Order of Things," features stories from people who have chosen to make a gender change in their lives. These changes can affect them in both positive and negative ways. By analyzing Hage's novel and Ruzylo's documentary, we can see similarities between certain characters. For example, Farhoud, a friend of Hage's protagonist, is homosexual. Additionally, the documentary is based on the gender change and sexual orientation of the men and women interviewed. Even if Farhoud and the people interviewed in the documentary feel comfortable in the way they are, society will not accept them. People are afraid of change; It’s human nature to want to stay in the comfort zone. Whenever someone sees a different individual, they will react negatively due to their confusion. Being excluded from one's own home and losing loved ones, not being respected, resorting to violence and losing one's identity are three of the many consequences that follow the discrimination of these people in today's public. Farhoud, and most of the men and women interviewed in Hage's novel and Ruzylo's film, have lost most of their loved ones by choosing to be who they are and what defines them as a person. This indicates that Hage and Ruzylo are trying to explain that the cost of such choices is major; It takes a lot of courage to take a step and change your lifestyle. Through the documentary, Stéphanie, one of the transgender people interviewed, explains what happened after her sex change. “Living in a shelter” “I lost my family, my children and my job”. She lost all of that to gain something even greater in her life; who is she real... middle of paper ......, for example, “gender is either boy or girl”; “You can’t change what you already are.” As a result, Hage and Ruzylo attempt to explain that no matter what, there will always be people who judge a person to be unique or different; This judgment can then cause homosexual and transgender people to find themselves stuck between two different genders. Stephanie from the documentary explains: "When I order something in a store while wearing a dress, they always call me sir or M." Even though she wants to be treated as a woman and even changed her appearance to be considered a woman, people are still determined to think of her as a man. Public confusion causes transgender people to lose their identity; she can no longer do anything to prove that she is a woman. Plus, young boy says people would call him "she, him, they" because they're not sure what they're seeing..