Pink is for girls, and blue is for boys; tends to be a default for raising children based on their initial sex at birth. However, I propose that such a limiting standard be removed much as girls should play with barbies and makeup; and boys should play football or with monster trucks. In today's day and age, sex and gender now seem to rarely match up now with more teenagers seeing themselves as being homosexuals and being in a generation that allows people to be more open than in previous ones. There is also more acceptance towards transgendered individuals for the coming years. I propose that we eliminate gender stereotypes, and help homosexuals, transgendered individuals, and even heterosexual children, so that others can see why gender stereotypes are wrong.
Many arguments state that because someone is born either a boy or a girl, regardless of how much they physically change about themselves, they will be the same birth orientation because of their specialized genetic code. Inaccurately, I have seen people refer to this as being their gender, at this point I think they believe sex to be the action. This is not the case, sex is the division of male and female in association to their reproductive organs (“Sex”). Gender on the other hand, is the cultural, behavioral, or psychological state of being male or female (“Gender”), this could also be considered as gender identity. Then by societal ruling, gender roles are the public image of being male or female (“Gender Roles”).
For homosexuals, boys or girls, the child understands at an early age, or around the puberty, if not their teenage years that they are not following what is considered to be a normal gender role. The only complexity for the scenario of a the gender roles is that there are masculine boys that can still be homosexual, just as there can be feminine girls. Then there are the feminine boys who are homosexual and the masculine females who are homosexual. Gender roles for homosexual individuals would find themselves more confused or cut from a different cloth, because of how they cannot conform to the norms of gender roles, especially concerning bible verses of a man should marry a woman, or how society can treat a child that is too masculine as a girl, or too feminine as a boy. ***
In the case of transgendered individuals their gender identity- the sex that they see themselves as- is different than their actual sex. So, to make the two differing sides- body and mind- to match up, transgendered individuals change their physical bodies to blend seamlessly into their self-identified gender in society. Much like the transgendered man, Chaz Bono, who was born Chastity Bono. He was a man trapped in a woman's body and he told interviewers how he went through reconstructive surgery in order to feel like a man, instead of two separate people. *
Concerning comments on the internet from the public, there seems to be a stigma of how it is 'strange' for the individuals to mutilate themselves...
