Pigeon

Friend, I think you are confused about what is gender and what is sexuality.

How much does speaking up help? Well, for me it helped a great deal. I was bullied in primary school to the point that I felt physically sick every morning ...

I understand where you are coming from Pigeon, but how do you raise a child gender neutral? Yes you can use what they consider a gender neutral color, but is ...

The thing is, if we do believe that gender is important as a social construct- and we would not want to deny trans* and non-binary people their chance at expression ...

Trans* people existed fifty years ago. Trans* people have always existed. Acknowledging the existence of people and trying to counter oppression is not over-thinking.

*Just how many arrangements of genitalia are there? This I am not certain of, but intersex people are about 1 in every 750 (I'm going to check that but off ...

Identity is people knowing what gender they are. If I ask you your gender I'm sure you would know the answer. I guess it might be helpful to say that ...

Gender is to some degree a social construct. It exists because people believe in it and think it's important. I want to be very clear though - something being a ...

Your gender is a biological fact No. A boy is a boy, and a girl is a girl -- which, without the cultural and social connotations as to what that ...

I mean. This kind of thing might be considered to be just a girly trait, but it really felt like a kind of a gender suppression all the same, because ...

Talk to the women of the tribes. Work with the women. Do nothing that isn't by the suggestion or request of the women. Respect these women by talking to them ...

The things you're listing are still all gender role kind of things though. It's not what I would call a gender-neutral upbringing because you would still have had an assigned ...

Of course a woman in the nude would be distracting. Whether or not it should be, nuditiy is very sexualised. I think the main issue with school dress codes is ...

I'm honestly against this in its extreme form. A girl child should know that they are a girl, and a boy child should know that they are a boy, and ...

tw: discussion of rape jokes A joke being bigoted or offensive doesn't mean it shouldn't be told at all though, just that one should choose the audience appropriately. Of course, ...