Why<\/b> do you<\/i> understand what 'gender' means.<\/p>\n
I'm an educated & not unintelligent person but until I started trying to better understand myself & my differences, my explanation of gender would have been that it was a synonym of Sex - Male\/Female.
\nThe fact that I did not understand the definition of gender is in part why I am now so intrigued by Gender studies. How could I not know? Why should I expect everybody else to know? What am I going to do about it?<\/p>\n
In the last 8 months I have very deliberately discussed 'Gender', it's meaning & the resulting term 'transgender' with hundreds of people (all documented). I have found that most people will readily accept the correct definition of gender but because they have never had to consider it from a transgender perspective, until my discussions with them, they too thought of it as a synonym for sex.<\/p>\n
It is not satisfactory that 'we' the gender diverse, apportion blame to those who don't know any different. This creates & us & them scenario...another binary. All binary situations are exclusive, not inclusive. If you wish to be included you must break down the binary positioning...the us & them.<\/p>\n
In law, 'ignorance is no defence'. In social understanding it absolutely is & should be. People can't support or accept something they either don't know about or don't understand.<\/p>\n
I hear it argued that society won't change in our time, rubbish! Change is gradual, ongoing & innevitable, it happens without being noticed but it doesn't happen without effort & often sacrifice.<\/p>\n
Choose any era of history, any country, culture, race, religion or creed & change is evident. In fact you cannot prevent change. You can however choose not to participate.<\/p>\n
I am interested to know how & when you came to understand the 'definition' of Gender.<\/b> I am not asking how long have you had feelings of gender variance but rather did you actually know what Gender meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","topic-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1762","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgr.net.au\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic-tag?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}