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How Can We Understand Gender Within the Fluidity of Human Nature?

Published: Aug. 7, 2020, 4:05 a.m.

Perhaps the question we need to ask instead is, \u201cWhat is gender?\u201d, followed by, \u201cWhat are ways to describe gender?\u201d

Notice I didn\u2019t say, \u201cHow can we describe gender?\u201d The difference between \u2018what\u2019 and \u2018how\u2019 is subtle but an important thought exercise in the understanding of gender as an idea or a concept, and less as a label or a container, in which we might try to drop people into.

The later is what most of society has tried to do for millennia, establishing a codex, written or unwritten, of what is \u2018male\u2019 or \u2018female\u2019. With this invitation, I am asking you to consider what ways you can use to describe gender.

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