10 years of changing Gender meaning

The vast majority of people identify with male characteristics or female characteristics. Those who are born women feel that they are women, and those who were born men feel that they are men. They never really feel any different from their gender.

Sometimes they feel bad because they do not meet the expectations of their gender. But it doesn't come from internal feelings, as it comes from the people around them who are judging them.

But what if you never truly identified with your male or your female characteristics? How to spell that you were more than just a woman or more than just a man or you never felt really comfortable in either category.

Well, there is an entire world of gender beyond male and female. As you will find out, some people do not agree that there are more than just two genders.

But many psychologists and psychiatrists as well as other professionals agree that there is more than just man and woman.

The push for non-male and not female gender recognition has gained momentum in the past ten years. How has gender and sex for those who are cisgender and all of the people who do not fall neatly into the female and male categories?

So, what is going on with sex and gender?

For those in the nontraditional nonbinary, agender, and trans community, the last ten years have been extremely progressive, to a point. Many people now know that sex and gender should not be considered the same thing.

It was never this way before in the mainstream social consciousness, as sex and gender were interchangeable in most people's minds. Whether they agree with it or not, much of our society now understands that sex is what you are born with based on your bodily characteristics, as well as your chromosomes and hormones. Gender is a construct imposed on a person because of their bodily characteristics. Gender can be changed on a whim and is not permanent.

Many people do not agree with this view, as they want their view on sex and gender to stay the same. Many feels as though separating sex and gender is a liberal propaganda aiming to turn all the young children into transgender Democrats.

But the separation of sex and gender is actually based in science. Also, just because someone feels like they are a different gender does not automatically mean that they are transgender, and they will immediately start hormone therapy.

If you don't know much about the concepts of sex and gender and how they are now different, you're not alone. Most people consider sex and gender to be the same thing. When we fill out forms, we usually see the word Sex or Gender with an M and an F next to little boxes. We will check one of these little boxes with little to no thinking.

If the word on the form is SEX, then our funny friend will remark, “Sex? Yes, please!” Other than that, we won’t think about this section for more than a second or two. For most of the world's, sex and gender are completely interchangeable changeable.

But not everybody neatly fits into one of these two categories.

The world is now recognizing that there are more categories of gender than just male and female. According to the LGBTQ community and the extended community of queer people that are still not recognized, sexuality and gender are fluid, changeable, and never permanent.

Below are a few of the most recognized categories of gender:

(But this is not a comprehensive list of all of the genders out in the world)

• Agender - this person is either without a gender or they are gender-neutral.ss And they do not see themselves as a man or as a woman
• Nonbinary - someone who has a gender, but their gender is not part of the male or female genders.
• Transgender - this is the term that most people are familiar with. A transgender person is someone who is not the gender that is usually associated with the sex they were assigned at Birth. A man who is transgender was born as a female with female sex characteristics. But later on, they realize that they do not identify with the female gender or the female sex. Many transgender people get surgeries so they can finally feel that they are the right sex.
• Two-spirit - based in Native American traditions, a two-spirit person is someone who feels that they are both masculine and feminine. Not different times table exhibit feminine traits and other times they will exhibit masculine traits.
• Aromantic - this person does not experience romantic attraction two other people. This is not mean that they can't experience sexual attraction. A romantic person is not automatically asexual.
• Asexual - an asexual person does not experience sexual attraction. That does not mean that they cannot experience romantic attraction.
• Genderqueer - this term is actually an umbrella term. It means someone who does not fit neatly into a male or female category. Many people who are non-binary or a romantic will also fall under the genderqueer label.

So, what are the differences between gender and sex expression?

For everyone in the world who thought there was only male and female or boy and girl, they probably believe that gender and sex expression we're interchangeable.

As we mentioned above, sex is a permanent part of a person. A baby who is born with male parts, like a penis, and testes, is assigned as a boy. A baby who is born with a vulva, vagina, clitoris, and uterus is assigned as a girl.

Sometimes, babies can be born with abnormal genitalia, like both a penis and a vagina, a penis but no testes, a vulva but no vagina, and other genital issues. These types of birth are not rare, but they are not common either.

There are even cases where a baby originally assigned as a boy experiences some kind of genital damage to their penis or testes, and the parents and doctor decide to reassign the child’s gender. However, cases like this show that sex cannot be reassigned just because of genital damage.

If sex is the nearly permanent part of a human, then what about gender?

So, what is gender? Gender is a social construct that society dictates a person’s gender to them based on their sex characteristics and the sex that each child is assigned as birth. Much of the way society, including friends, family, institutions, authority figures, etc., views and treats people is based on their sex.

Also, sex and sexuality are not the same. Sexuality is who a person is sexually attracted to. In the wild thing is that now that we are separating steps in gender, some people realize that they don't have much of a sexuality. As we mentioned in the list of terms above, someone who is asexual has very little to no sexual attraction to anyone. It does not mean that there is something wrong with them or that they have a low libido.

How is the representation of gender changing?

But who are the people that are calling for the acceptance of all these new types of genders? The fight for third gender acceptance has been happening since the sixties. But now it is actually the new generation of young Millennials and all of gen Z that is finally accepting the nuance of gender in ways that previous generations have never even been thought of.

Many young people in Generation Z, the oldest of the generation being 20 years old, feel that they no longer need to adhere to the male or female binary gender code. But this is not mean that all of gen Z identifies as transgender. We identified as all different types of gender. Many even say that they do not stick to one gender. Some say that their gender is fluid and can change from day-to-day.

The rise of non-binary and transgender representation in politics

One of the biggest victories for people who do not fit perfectly into the binary gender system is political representation of transgender politicians. In the US Canada, there are more nonbinary and transgender politicians than ever before.

The rise of critics and laws against gender theory

Not all attention on the changing role of gender has been positive or encouraging. Many parts of our society dim the concept of sex and gender as whole and complete and anything that deviates from what we already understand about it is evil, and from the Devil. Those who are not religious but still dislike the changing definition of gender see it as the downfall of the western world and the breakup of the traditional family.

But they fail to recognize that different genders have always existed. Different Native American tribes have special designations. for their gay and transgender members. Some people believe that those who were gay or transgender we're closer to the spirits because they were both male and female.

There are even hundreds of documented instances of different species engaging in activities that their gender does not usually do.

The long transgender bathroom fight

Surprisingly, one of the biggest fights in transgender and gender equality is the last place anyone wants to be for too long: the public bathroom.

Even if you have been living under a rock, you have definitely heard of a transgender bathroom bill. So, what is the issue about?

Here is the issue: If a transgender woman still has a penis and it has not gotten genital surgery, should they be able to go into the women's bathroom? Or should they go into the men's because they still have a penis?

Now, you may be thinking, why not just create bathrooms specifically for transgender people? Or what about turning the single male and female bathrooms into all gender bathrooms?

For the latter solution, many places are now removing the male and female sign off of the bathrooms doors and switching them out for neutral bathrooms or all gender bathrooms signs. This is a simple solution.

It is the former solution that is the most difficult to solve.

First of all, building a brand-new bathroom is simply unfeasible for most public buildings. Buildings have been designed with a two-gender bathroom layout and even the richest of companies want to spend the time and money remodeling entire sections of their buildings to include a third bathroom.

Another reason is that because the transgender bathroom is clearly marked for transgender people, they are far more likely to be assaulted or harassed. A person who wants to assault transgender people can just wait until they see a transgender person walk into a transgender bathroom. Then they can walk into the bathroom after the transgender person and assault them.

What about a third, all gender bathrooms? More cisgender people will use a third all gender bathroom so no one will know exactly who is a transgender person. But companies still do not want to construct a brand-new third bathroom.

So, should a transgender man who still has a vagina go to the women's restroom or the men's restroom? What about the transgender woman who still has their penis?

So far, transgender rights advocates say that the person who is transgender should be able to pick which bathroom they feel most comfortable in. Some transgender men who are still transitioning feel like they do not belong in a men's bathroom they still look like a woman. And the same goes for transgender women who are barely starting on testosterone, so they still look like a man.

Some anti-transgender protesters and politicians say that not allowing a transgender woman, who used to be a man, into the woman's restroom will protect women. But it seems that this line of thinking is never applied to cisgender men who enter into women's restrooms. There's never been a law that increases the severity of punishment if an assault happens in a woman's restroom. Plus, there have been 10 to 20 times more straight cisgender men who have assaulted women in their bathrooms then transgender women who assaulted women in bathrooms.

Some people feel that the anti-LGBT politicians are just doing whatever they can to stop gay and transgender people from being comfortable in the United States. They want to be able to discriminate against all LGBT people and limit their movement and comfort in the world.