In my mind, the gender issue is that society is attempting to force the world into two tiny little boxes. Sexuality is a small gender-bend, in that these two boxes exclude those who care for people of the same gender. However, sexuality can be assimilated by the main stream in that it is a comparitively mild deviation from the status quo.
In reality, the real issue is society's refusal to recognize that people simply do not fit into gender boxes. Male and Female are relative terms. There's not even a good way to define it. It is at the genetive level, XX and XY? Well, what gender ar XXXs? Or XXY? XYY? XXXX? All of these do occur, and more often than many people realize. 1 in 1000 are XXX. 1 in 500 are XXY. 1 in 2500 are single X. 1 in 1000 are XYY. 1 in 17000 are XXYY. In mosaicism, some cells have one genetic code (XX, XY, XXY, etc) while others have a different one. In chimeraism, these two seperate genetic codes are fused, meaning that rather than have, for example, a female body with male genitilia, the entire body will be a mixed patchwork of the two. Chormosonal anomalies occur in over 15-20% of conceptions.
How about physical distiction? Boys have a penis, girls have a vagina... right? Well, in the last two cases described above, it is very possible for this not to be true, not to mention all of the possibilities in bewteen. About 1 percent of live births exibit some kind of sexual ambiguity. Not all of these qualify as anywhere near intersexed, but it's something to consider.
Obviosuly, most of these exceptions are physical "deformations", but "normal" people experience a desire to behave outside of their gender nroms too. I mean, who decided that women have to always paint their faces to go out into public? The whole shaving the legs things started because prostitutes were doing it, and women wanted to keep their men home. And why should we remain a patriarcal society when brute strength is no longer the definition of value within our world? On the other side of the coin, why should men be required to not show emotions, and to exibit the "macho man" persona? Why can't men dress up and look snazzy without being considered to be homosexual?
These boxes are crazy. They define the limits of our society, and hold us in our places so firmly that no one can escape. I believe that people who identify as males have every right to "cross-dress" as females. I believe that I have every right, as a born female, to strive to pass as male in public, and identify as gender-queer, and one of the "It" gender.
Even open minded people these days shrink from the gender-queer. It's a fundamental rule of our society: don't betray your gender. And those of us who do it every day risk literal physical violence. Especially transsexuals, and especially transsexual male-to-female. For them it's even more deadly. At least for female to male the risk is mostly rape and severe beating, though deaths are not unheard of.
The gender issue is society being violently closed minded to the idea that their two-gender system doesn't work for everyone. There are lot of people who simply do not fit into those boxes. The real issue is the violence, hostility, and anger they recieve from the rest of society when they dress and behave like themselves.
2006-12-31 08:37:57
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answered by Tain 2
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Well good gosh. In general I do not have an issue with the two genders. I do have an issue when some try to make more then two genders.
2006-12-30 08:38:13
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answered by festus_porkchop 6
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People can be what they want if it doesnt interfer with you personally it should have no standing for a person no matter what their gender still feels the emotions of those whom wish to call themselves the norm
support them if you can be not judgemental thenmaybe the human race might improve
2006-12-30 09:34:59
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answered by shannara 4
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people can do what they want. they should not be judged by others. the sexually and genderly 'adventerous' come out and want this and that and others simply do not care because it seems weird and annoying... however hpysically altered 'genderbenders' deserve to have their 'new' gender recognized in the legal sense and should not have their constitutional rights denied.
2006-12-30 09:03:19
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answered by larrydoyle52 4
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