McCormick, StacyTaylor, Aryn Michael,author.2018-05-162018-05-1620182018https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/21862I address a noticeable gap in the queer archive where transmasculine lives are understudied in the fields of rhetoric, composition, and literature. In my introduction, I provide my own exigence as a transman, a scholar, a writer, and a teacher. I utilize a metacognitive approach to answer, what does it mean to be a transman? My first chapter documents my experience as a transgender instructor in the process of transitioning, to discover how the gendered process of becoming influences my students own processes of becoming writers. My second chapter analyzes the rhetoric in several transmens transitioning memoirs as well as transmens YouTube channels to observe how our personal and embodied writing pushes back against a pathologizing narrative. I conclude my thesis with an emphasis on the importance of literature and writing. I highlight how the power of language fosters the process of becoming in the formation of identities.1 online resource (ii, 94 pages).Format: OnlineNo search engine accessText