All these years, I have this misconception gender and sex these two are synonyms. But after going through the very first chapter “Gender Stories” I could differentiate between sex and gender. In our society, we are determined either male or female via our sex but as we grow, adopt the environment, the changes that come to our behavior, change in our needs, transform our attitude and perspectives, which determines our gender.
Conceptualization of Gender is very vast to understand because once we are able to get it then we can actually understand how sex is different from Gender. According to Gender Stories the 3 Conceptualization of Gender:
1. Gender as Equivalent Sex: A person’s determination is made by the physiology of their body.
2. Gender as Separate from Sex: In this conceptualization, sex is what you are born with or is your body buy gender is one’s behavior, personality, or roles that you gain from the socialization.
3. Gender as an assignment to bodies: The process by which people categorize and label.
Like I have mentioned earlier I believe Sex and gender were the same terms but after reading gender stories I realized that they are related but are not the same. I could relate who I was 10 years ago and what I have become today actually define my gender. But my sexuality is defined by my birth. I was born as a girl child in another term I can say, female. Until my high school, I grew up like a term boy, always short hair, hanging out with a lot of boys friends, very sporty and all my class girls eventually didn’t use to like me. That’s was my personality. But as I went to college, my interest got changes, I started having long hairs, love doing more volunteer works and it was strange I stop playing basketball which used to be and still my favorite game. And after certain years(present) my wants and desires are completely different than I had a couple of years ago. I am more bounded by my responsibility. This changes that I had is because along with a change in time, I have been changing as I am facing new people in every stage, I have been coping with the various environment. Me as a single person I have been playing different roles, with my siblings, I am a very quiet sister and not so outspoken, with my friends I am one of the very frank one and outspoken. Similarly, in the office, I am a very reserved person that my boss once said to me that I had to take a communication class. Theses all different people determine me as a very different personality.
I believe there is more to explore and know ourselves. The gender stories have given some concept for me personally to understand the term “sex” and “gender” but to some extent, they are co-related to create one’s identity.
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