Introduction

According to the Ecology Global Network there are approximately 360,000 births per day in this world. When someone is born in a hospital one of the first things the doctors do is assign the child a sex based off of the biological parts present. From there the rest of the world takes over in making assumptions about the child’s gender based off of the assigned sex. As Sam Killerman said in The Social Justice Advocate’s Handbook: A Guide to Gender, “Gender identity is our internal response to a social construction that attempts to make a connection between a person’s biological makeup and their eventual role in society.” Gender is a socially constructed idea and often in this society it is assumed that one’s gender matches their assigned sex, or it is assumed that both of the previous match up with the individual’s gender expression. From there people also assume that one’s sexual or romantic orientations fit into neat normative boxes that coincide with gender expression and identity, and sex. In actuality though, these assumptions just are not reliable. With 360,000 births a day there will be some babies that are not born just male or female, there will be some babies that don’t identify as men or women, and there will be some babies that are not attracted to the opposite sex. The goal of this blog is to define and discuss a few of the many identities and orientations that people possess and to show that as a society we simplify topics we should not. There is beauty in diversity, so let’s shine a light upon it.


http://www.ecology.com/birth-death-rates/

Monday, April 13, 2015

Gender Unicorn



The Gender Unicorn is an updated version of the 
Genderbread Person v2.0, The Gender Unicorn allows a person to chart the way they feel about their gender identity, gender expression, sex assigned at birth, sexual attraction and romantic attraction. The unicorn gives an individual many more options to chart their personal feelings and create a more accurate representation of themselves. The unicorn also shows a difference in the romantic verses sexual attraction, it also gives people the ability to have no attraction. Rather than using a spectrum of
 male <-----------------> female, it has separate lines for each to describe a person attraction to males and then a separate lines to females. It also gives a line for other, recognizing that there are more genders outside of the standard binary
Images:
http://www.transstudent.org/genderunicornexample.jpeg
https://canterburyccq.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/genderbread-2_1.jpg
Posted by at

5 comments:

  1. idecreeblessingsAugust 5, 2016 at 9:47 AM

    This would not be so much of an issue if parents were properly guiding, teaching, and training their children, and I mean starting when they come out of the womb, and do as God instructs: "Bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord (Ephesians 6:4). Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it"(Proverbs 22:6).

    It's so sad to see and hear that year after year some people are still roaming around in the dark struggling with basic issues making life so difficult and much harder than it has to be, when all they have to do is seek the help of the One who created them and everything - the great God of Heaven. Jesus lovingly counsels humanity: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).

    Lord Jesus, it is written that the entrance of Your words gives light; It gives understanding to the simple (Psalm 119:130). May your mercies, which are new every morning (Lamentations 3:22-24), and your amazing grace, which is sufficient for mankind (2 Corinthians 12:9), abound towards the people of the earth so one day soon people will flow with the Spirit of God so that their minds and eyes will open to the truth, Your Word is the Truth(John 17:17), and their hearts will soften to turn to you, Holy Father. In Jesus' name I release my faith for it to manifest. Thank you. Amen.

    ReplyDelete
  2. anneJuly 31, 2017 at 4:03 PM

    disgraceful use of scripture to make your ideology "pass" muster with intelligent people who can resist dogmas imposed on them which do not fit the reality of what people know are indisputable TRUTHS that in the natural order creatures are born male/female and some as nature always does throws up some rare aberrations of that.

    ReplyDelete
  3. daryl-b-tAugust 24, 2017 at 8:44 PM

    "Gender is a socially constructed idea"

    The correlation of gender with biological sex is over 0.95, suggesting gender is heavily determined by biology. Current ideas about the roots of homosexuality also point to biological causes, i.e. they are often born that way. Where is the justification for your claim?

    ReplyDelete
  4. WildermirthSeptember 8, 2017 at 7:26 AM

    @idecreeblessings

    I doubt if this individual will revisit this page or have any interest in becoming educated on the issue--But in case s/he does, or if there is someone else who could use a little education on this matter, I point you to the tragic case of John/Joan, a natal male born in the 1960s, who lost his penis during a botched circumcision. Because the belief at that time as that gender is fundamentally a matter of the way one is raised, rather than biological, it decided that he would be raised as female. For a brief synopsis, see the link provided. https://sites.psu.edu/evolutionofhumansexuality/2014/04/07/gender-identity-nature-vs-nurture/

    ReplyDelete
  5. StrangerMarch 11, 2018 at 1:23 PM

    Right that is why he ultimately ended his life... you make a fine point there @monika
    did you even read your own link? or is your bias so deep that you dont even see the outcome of the way he was raised damaged him beyond repair.... sigh.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)