Will Gender Exist 100 Years From Now, or Does it Already not Exist?
Kris Notaro
Posted: Jun 21, 2010
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It has been claimed by biologists that the brains of females and males are different in obscure ways. However physical differences in adults may be due to psychological and sociological pressures on the brains of each gender, because cultures and societies may exaggerate roles and stereotypes, having an impact on brain plasticity.
On top of society's role in forming gender identity, we can see in current biological data of brains and their relation to gender identity due to "molecular and hormonal mechanisms." (Rosario, 276-278) It has been shown that the structure of brains in Homo sapiens can take on either a male or female form from a variety of factors during critical postnatal periods. The biology of sexual identity is reveling important data which points to diversity in sexual orientation, leading us to accept that looking at gender in a binary fashion is unacceptable; gender identity in Homo sapiens is probably much more ambiguous and diverse then we once thought. (Rosario, 276-279) From this we can conclude that the gender identity listing in the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders should be eliminated. Genetic engineering of the brain will only increase the ambiguity if we choose. A post-gender binary society is possible, not only in the future, but it may already be here naturally.