Gender Revolution: The Gender Spectrum

Nadia Steyn

L.O C.A.T

Task One

The Gender Revolution

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The Gender Spectrum.

For most of us gender is simply taught to us growing up. There are two end points, male and female. And which end your on depends on your biological sex. The society we live in has also been developed based around this idea. But a person’s gender is more complex than that. People do not always neatly fit into the female or male box as expected.

The gender spectrum deals with this complexity.

What is the Gender Spectrum: the gender spectrum is a non- binary system that looks at trying to define a person gender. This system allows for individual categorization across a range of possibilities. There are 3 factors that this system looks at:

• Gender Identity: it is a person's own sense and experience of their own gender. This is generally described as one's private sense of being a man or a woman.

• Gender expression: it is the way in which we each show masculinity or femininity. Each of us expresses a particular gender every day – by the way we style our hair, select our clothing, or even the way we stand.

• Biological sex: it is the anatomy as female or male person is born with. This includes a person’s internal and external organs

This spectrum allows for a much more realistic variation and classification of someone’s gender. This

It is difficult to change someone’s mind about something if they do not understand it. And understanding the gender spectrum is something which at times can be challenging. The spectrum is confusing because each individual person is categorized differently and this has created many variations of gender. For example, a person can be born a man (biological sex) , feel like a female (gender identity) and dress like a man (gender expression). This strikes the confusion of if he feels like a girl shouldn’t he dress like a