“ Science fiction like Star Trek is not only good fun but it also serves a serious purpose, that of expanding the human imagination. […] To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ”
“ I see now that the circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevent. It is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are. ”
Gender is more then just “boys have a penis and girls have a vigina”.
In popular imagination, gender is a 2-category system. If you have a penis, your gender is “boy”; if you have a vagina, your gender is “girl”. This system is factually false and laced with sexism.
In lived reality, gender refers to how we see ourselves.
How people see and identify themselves (gender identity) is variable and intrinsic. In most cases, gender identities do not fit completely into the 2-category system (the gender binary). This is because many of the attributes of these 2 categories are not mutually exclusive.∴ Owing to its high level of variability, gender is an ineffective way to categorize people. Biological sex (genitalia), while still highly varied, conveys much more stable categories. However, categorizing people by their biological sex is only helpful in health/body contexts (medical care, reproductive services, body-specific clothing, etc) because biological sex says nothing about a person’s gender identity.
The buttons on my onesie keep coming undone and all of a sudden my boobs are like HELLO COLD AIR.
