Understanding the meaning

Names: Alison Alava Delgado

Instructor: Rick Pittenger

Opinion essay: Understanding the Meaning

Class: L004 - 010

Due date: August 1st, 2017^[a]

Understanding the Meaning^[b]

Biological sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and more, terms that are always misunderstood. ^[c]They will be explained bellow. ^[d]Have you been thinking this whole time that just two genders exist? Let me tell you: You have been living unconsciously but it’s okay. Gender and sex are pretty different and most of the people have mistaken these words. The millennials generation (1980-2000) have been part of the change, change that can be taken positively and negatively. I will enlighten you, it can be annoying but just read.

Biological sex which is assigned at birth, normally is a doctor who judges you as feminine or masculine these two words are also known as binary genders, but here is the problem: A girl has born, ‘-It’s a girl -says the man with blue clothes and smiling face- to her parents, the girl who internally is not a girl was assigned directly her gender^[e]. He just saw the genitalia and it was his final verdict. She is a G I R L for all society. Now the things take a different path, with the past of the time the ‘girl’ ^[f]hasn’t felt as a girl, she has been feeling more boy than a girl, in this cases we use the word transgender, an umbrella term used to refer to people whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond to their birth sex.  ^[g]Here are used the acronyms FTM/MTF or also FTF/MTM. And other terms that are closely linked as a transsexual concept that confuse transgender and transvestite whose is a person who dresses in a style or manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex, this does not imply that the person who transvestite wants to be of the opposite gender, many people do it for fun they are also known as crossdressers; transsexual one who wants to be considered by society of the opposite sex some transsexual undergo surgery to finally achieve what they want.

Gender Identity, to put it simply is the way you identify yourself in your head, you can be a woman whose gender identify is male or also a man whose gender identify is female. Then, we have gender expression, like the second word explains: expression it’s the way you express your gender by clothing, hairstyle, or manners. I really would like people to understand every single term which is used in the LGBT community. Furthermore, sexual orientation and sexual identify, first of all sexual orientation makes its reference to the person who attracts you, women, men it doesn’t really matter. LGB is equal to sexual orientation and T gender identity, from these easy and understandable concepts are derived some more: gender fluid, genderqueer, demi girl/ boy and much more that I would like to talk but the LGBT Community is as long as Phil arrogance, there might me terms you never hear before. ^[h]As far I’m concerned with the topic, I’d like to finally deal with two points here. The first is the word gende^[i]r that for me is a social role assigned by society and as you know society needs labels to judge people, and second, we do not need a label, ^[j]I as part of the LGBT Community, have never needed a label to represent me. Gender fluid ^[k]people can wake up feeling 70% girl one day and another 70% boy, gender dysphoria is a very difficult affair that maybe the whole community has passed.^[l]

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