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But for some of us it doesn't work, some have surgery and go from living as one gender to the other, and other just opt to stay in the middle. Sometimes it is a dangerous place to be and parents worry, but I would be more of a danger to myself if I had to pretend I am something I am not every time I left my house. It would be mentally exhausting. When I am in the gas station paying for my soda and the clerk says 'can I help you Sir...Ma'am? Err' I don't feel I have to settle that question for them anymore. Does some random person need to know what's in my pants to sell me a Mtn. Dew? But society does need to know and some choose different options to be treated the way they wish to be treated. This is the strongest argument that sexism still exists, that we even need to know or care what gender someone else is.
March 15th, 2007
Many people think 'sex', 'gender', 'sexual orientation' and 'masculine/feminine' behavior are all immutable and inborn traits that are determined by whatever parts the Dr. sees between our legs when we are born. Dr's don't do a chromosome check before they say 'male' or 'female'. One in three hundred births have some sort of sexual ambiguity and that's just biological variance. After that cursory biological proclamation people think they know everything that there is to know about how that person will act and feel in relation to others, who s/he will be attracted to, how s/he will dress, drive, communicate etc. I am surprised more people aren't ticked off by all these assumptions about ourselves that people make based on what they think our biological sex is. Granted most people take on the trappings of one gender or the other to make sure that we appear to others the way we see ourselves and it works. <lj-cut text="Read more">