Gender Identity

Gender Identity

Gender Identity is a tough subject for a lot of people to understand to be honest. Now you may ask, what is Gender Identity? Gender Identity is the feeling that you are male, female or transgender. Many things contribute to the development of gender identity, including society, family and factors that are in place before birth for most people. Transgender individuals, such as transsexuals, drag queens, cross dressers, and transvestites may have the genitals of one sex, but a gender identity usually associated with the other. For example, a person born with a penis who feels female or a person born with a vagina who feels male may identify as transgender. This subject is very controversial to many people. Most scientists believe that gender identity is learned. I tend to look at it more like activity vs. passivity. Sometimes this is called dominance vs. submission, or simply, "top" and "bottom”. Usually it is the male who is more aggressive and forceful, but that is not always so, and if someone acts different from their biological predisposition, by reversal of roles, then gender is reversed. An example is that in some cultures, if a man has sex with another man, anally or orally, only the recipient of the penis is considered "homosexual". So we have orientation being the sex to which one is attracted: But gender is the sex one acts more like. One might be attracted to the opposite sex, and we call that heterosexual; if to the same sex, homosexual; to either, bisexual. But for gender, one is either dominant (male stereotype); or submissive (female stereotype); or switch, if one can act either way. But I talked to a female about this yesterday, and she said with technology now, you can be whatever/whomever you feel you want to be. By nature, she’s a female, because she has the ability to reproduce, nonetheless, and she defines gender identity as freedom of expression. What makes her a female is that she’s secure in her womanhood, and she’s never felt as if she...

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