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An extra credit assignment only 5 questions need to be answered, its very easy. ONLY 5 OUT OF 9

1. Describe where Chris Beck grew up, his siblings, and their family’s socioeconomic status.

2. Describe Chris’s relationship with his father. How did Chris’s father treat him differently

than his father treated his other siblings? Provide an example of a story Chris tells to

illustrate your answer and include in your example a quotation from

Warrior Princess.

3. Describe Chris’s relationship with his mother. How did Chris’s mother treat him

differently than she treated his other siblings?

4. Chris talks about dressing in girl’s clothes in secret as a child. Why do you think he felt

compelled to do so? How did cross-dressing make him feel?

5. Why was Chris drawn toward joining the military and particular to becoming accepted to

the Navy Seals? In what way did his past experiences help him find the strength to make it

through the grueling training to become a Navy Seal when so many other people failed?

6. What is your favorite story Chris tells about serving as a Navy Seal? Summarize that

story. What does that story reveal about Chris and about Navy Seal culture?

7. How did Chris’s marriages and role as a father make him feel and add stress to his life?

How did he cope with that stress?

8. What finally pushed Chris to decide to come out as male-to-female transgendered and to

dress openly as a women? How did others react to him, including his family, his military

friends and colleagues, and high level US military administrators who were his

supervisors?

9. Does Chris’s story change any previous beliefs you had or teach you anything new about

being transgendered? What did you learn?