Gender Reflection

The determination of my gender identity was preset by my parents giving me the chromosomes XY, gave me an anatomic appearance of a female. Also being reared in a hetero environment had an influence in becoming a female as well. So the relation to the masculinity-femininity continuum is that I posses both traits feminine and masculine. In some situations I tend to carry myself as a caring and soft-spoken female, is typical for feminine behavior. On the other hand I express more masculine attributes like aggressiveness and self-reliance, which is typical for masculine behavior. Both add in the development in determining and sustaining my gender identity. The biological perspective by the way was inherited from my parents and aided in the development of the characteristics in becoming a woman, gender role of nurturing and caring individual, and maternal tendencies in taking care of my child. Then the psychological perspective according to my mother to which she insists that I was a normal girl with particular behaviors toward feminine toys and clothes. As a final point, the social environment offers an insight into the typical social role of an American woman, which was predetermined at birth by my social surroundings (Rathus, Nevid &

The concept of gender is not as cut and dry as you might think. The term gender is often used incorrectly as a synonym for our biological sex. Gender is more of a predetermined set of ideas and characteristics used in identifying socially acceptable behaviors and appearances for the sexes. It is not determined by the biological sex of the person. From an early age we begin to develop ideas of what it means to be male or female by observing others. Gender falls on a spectrum from masculine to feminine with many combinations in between. Gender expression and gender identity are also not the same thing. Gender expression is not related directly to how a person perceives their gender,

At times life can seem so random, it’s scary. Everyone has a place on this little Earth we share. First and foremost, we are all children born from a mother but for many people, that’s where our similarities end. As a little girl or boy there is a big wide worlds of innocence and possibilities. Your born gender already influences you, depending on where you live, how many siblings you have. Maybe you lived close to the city and loved

Gender and gender roles are a somewhat complicated idea to understand. Contrary to popular belief, gender and sex are two different things in that “gender is not inherently nor solely connected to one’s physical anatomy” (“Understanding Gender”). When parents automatically assign their child a gender based on their sex organs, it leaves very little room for change later in the child’s life, because children born with female sex organs are not necessarily girls, just as children born with male sex organs are not necessarily boys. Rather, gender is based on mindset, personal identity, outward presentations, and behavior of the individual. Binary genders, or the broadly

Gender is a complex socially constructed idea. Often people interchangeably use gender to refer to someone’s sex. This is not the case. Sex is the biological characteristics that makes someone a male, female or intersex. Gender however is made up of expression, identity, and sexual orientation. Gender identity is how one views themselves such as a woman, man or transgender. Gender identity does not correspond to the sex of that person. Gender expression is how one expresses their gender identity. This could be through a masculine , feminine or androgynous expression. In Western societies, although there has been a push for change in our gender system, the gender system as been a binary system. This binary system only believes that there are

I grew up surrounded by strong women who fulfilled both male and female gender roles. I attended an all-female high school where girls took on the positions traditionally reserved for boys. All my friends were girls and I did not have male friends until I reached college. For most of my childhood I took on neither masculine or feminine gender norms. I was not a traditional tomboy or girly girl, over all I identified as a nerd more than anything else. I looked up to both men and women, but not because of their gender performances. I never questioned my gender or even thought much about it and so; I fell within a strange limbo of identifying as a female but not participating in female gender roles. It was not until later in life where I encountered terms such as non-binary, androgynous, and gender non-conforming. After talking to people who identified with these terms, and learning more about what they mean; it made me question where I fall on the gender spectrum. Many of my mannerisms are traditionally masculine yet I fulfill mostly female gender roles. Today I still identify as female and occasionally chose to actively participate in my gender

In my preadolescence, my theory of developing from a girl into a woman was confirmed by my biology teacher. My biology teacher explained how a male and female sex was selected. She stated, a male consists of an X and Y chromosome; therefore, a man sperm predicts the sex (gender) of the baby during conception. During, this time, I learned that my gender was selected and identified before I had

In “Becoming Members of Society:Learning the Social Meanings of Gender,” Aaron H. Devor battles the topic of gender identity with an excerpt from his book, Gender Blending: Confronting the Limits. Children grow up being defined by a certain gender. From birth, they learn the language and how to act if you are a male or a female. Boys turn into men and should act masculine. Females turn into women and should act feminine. There is no middle ground for the gender identifications to intertwine. Everyone learns to behave in accordance with their gender identity and it is a lifelong process. And as people move through life, society demands different gender performances.

Gender identity is an extremely personal part of who we are, and how we perceive and express ourselves in the world. It is a separate issue entirely from sex or sexual orientation. There are dozens of dynamic and evolving terms related to how people identify. “Although Children are taught that their genes decree whether they will grow into men or women, people are not born socially or culturally female or male. Like race and ethnicity, gender can be thought of as socially constructed” (Marsiglia & Kulis, 2015, p. 196). I identify as female because I was taught as a child that I am female because of the genital parts I was born with. I also feel like I am a female. I do have my beliefs on what being a female or male entails.

I was born female, and I know that I am female. I identify as a female, but I present myself as androgynous. This is a part of my gender presentation, I do not present as dominantly feminine or dominantly masculine, I fall somewhere in the middle. I prefer to wear jeans to dresses and skirts, but I also like to wake up in the

Social construction of gender to myself applies to the “normalcy” of girls are feminine while the boys are masculine but throughout my years I have learned to challenge it. Through various institutions starting with my family I have learned that my gender is feminine however through other influences I have not fully become a girl y girl as you would call it. Gender is considered to be on a micro level it is more personal level due to the fact it is your own identity what I according to the lecture on “Identity is Fluid”. “ Identity can be based on my family or childhood experience and is often shaped by race, economic class, sexual orientation, geography and last but not least gender”. How I socialize into my gender roles

The way my father performed his gender has shaped the performance of my gender. My dad has also talked about raising me and my brothers as men but not as a binary concept but what he felt manhood represented. That involved in many things such as playing lots of sports or learning how to fight and other activities such as fishing. Although my dad never forced me to play sports it was always a staple in my household and I would- be mocked when I stopped playing a sport out of boredom. My dad constructed my gender self to view men as a group who had to become strong, fast, aggressive, dominant, and achieving in order to fit into society. This interaction with my family has caused my gender construction with others to be a byproduct of my experiences

When we are born, we're led to live our lives doing things based on our gender. We aren't allowed to do things that are meant for the opposite gender, for we are viewed as an abnormal person by others. We receive cruel attitude from individuals if we do not live up to the expectations we have based on our gender. As a little girl, I grew up loving to playing with toys and sports that were labeled for boys. This led me to become fascinated with basketball and had asked my grandparents to sign me up for the city's boys' basketball team. At a young age, I learned how to resolve an aspect of my gender with the pressure from young boys and adults was about attending boys' sports team, experiencing unkind teasing, and deciding to ignore ridicules.

Gender identity is an aspect of the self that is constantly evolving. It is how you feel internally and how you choose to express your desired gender through the way you dress, the way you behave, and the way you appear to others. A majority of the population feels as if they are either a male or they are a female. Others feel like they are neither. There are a various amount of labels that can define a person who feels like they are neither male nor female such as genderqueer, gender variant, or gender fluid. One who defines as cisgender presents themselves as the gender that they were assigned at birth. How one chooses to express their gender identity is completely up to them (Sexual Orientation and Gender). At the beginning of adolescence, both boys and girls deal with “pressure to conform to culturally sanctioned gender roles” (Priess, Lindberg, Hyde, 2009). Some very important aspects of gender identity include interpersonal, family, and friend interactions, the attachment theory and self theory, cultural contexts, and gender stratification.

A factor that has created such a huge impact on my identity and a huge divider among other is gender. I entered this world being born as a female and introduced into society as a women, I now have follow certain norms that states how to behave, express, and present myself as an