A sensitive topic
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Gender is defined as the behavioural,
cultural or psychological traits typically associated with sex. This is
according to the famous Merriam-Webster Dictionary. A person’s sex can never
change except when a person really wants to by an operation. But a
person’s gender can actually change. A person can change from one gender
to another, depending on the person.
There are endless possibilities of
gender for a person. A person’s gender can be changed by many factors. One is
the mind. A person who thinks of who they are based on what one knows of
himself forms one’s gender identity. People usually indicate a male and a
female based on their physical appearance and actions. If a person usually sees
himself doing things contradicting to his or her original gender or when
someone thinks that he or she fits more into the societal role of his or her
opposite sex, this is where his or her own thoughts regarding his or her gender
is being questioned. According to Sam Killerman, “…problems arise when someone
is assigned a gender based on their sex at birth that doesn’t align with how
they come to identify.” Another factor is one’s expression of him. There
are certain expressions or characteristics wherein we identify a person whether
he or she is a male or female. Like the way a person talk, act and dress. It is
usually based on the culture or tradition of a certain place or country. If a
person act, talk and dress differently from his or her sex, then his or her
gender might be the opposite of his or her sex. Another is the
attraction. This is where people who are attracted more to the people with the
same sex as him or her. People can be attracted in different ways like a sexual
attraction or romantic attraction. Some people are attracted to the people who
are with same sex as them. With all of these, based on the website Wikipedia -
“A continuum is multidimensional, allowing third gender, fourth
gender, fifth gender, agender or genderless, as well as many other
possibilities and combinations, thus much more accurately reflecting the true
diversity of human genders.”
According to genderspectrum.org,
Gender is all around us. It is actually taught to us, from the moment we are
born. Gender expectations and messages attack us constantly. Upbringing,
culture, peers, community, media, and religion, are some of the many influences
that shape our understanding of this main aspect of identity. How people
learned and interacted with their gender as a young child directly influences
how people view the world today. Gendered interaction between parent and child
begin as soon as the sex of the baby is known. In short, gender is a socially
constructed concept. This is where discrimination arises sometimes. Some people
discriminate or change their view towards other gender than male and female.
But why? Don’t people have their own rights? People have their rights to make
their own choices and to freely express who they really are. Gender is
not a stable thing. Gender as continuum is something that changes slowly over a
time. It keeps on going.
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