Gender is more then just “boys have a penis and girls have a vagina”.
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.
(via powerlesbian)
Fuck Glee, tbh: Openly gay Latina wins Texas congressional seat
(Courtesy Mary Gonzalez)
Mary Gonzalez told them she was the best candidate to represent them and El Paso voters agreed, but along the way, the 28-year-old doctoral student at the University of Texas at Austin broke her share of barriers.
