Gender - determined by self or society?

[DanicaCarin]

That says two contradicting things, though... 1) we're different 2) we're not normal.

We're different and normal. Differences are normal... our differences are just not currently very socially acceptable. Society tries very hard to make everyone the same... when that's not truly possible because everyone is different from everyone else. That's the problem with impossible standards of masculinity and femininity.

Is a baby born with a "bad" heart" normal? No...... But we as society understand that its something that is abnormal, yet it doesn't make the child abnormal(As far as society goes). If the medical community could show society that Trans people literally have brains closer in size to the gender they ID with(or some other biological cause). That regardless of the physical body, there brain says the opposite. I believe society would understand, and not treat us as a group of people who choose this. Similar to how the majority of society has accepted that being gay is not a choice.

[Tristan]

idk the answer to this? but i just feel like everyone could use a hug and maybe a chill pill 

[KabitTarah]

Yes... we're basically arguing semantics.

I'm normal and have a treatable condition. Abnormal is basically the same as saying "damaged goods" to me, unless the word is used scientifically.

I'm different. That's good and normal. The greatest good has always come from those who stand up against the neat little boxes society likes to make.

[insideontheoutside]

At this point, I honestly believe there's way more variables than people acknowledge but at the end of the day, I think gender itself is determined by a person's conscious brain. That said, I fully believe that one can be born with the brain of one gender and the body normally associated with another. I also think that society can certainly play an early and/or ongoing roll on your conscious mind.