Cisgendered means that you identify as the gender you where born as.
Isn't that just gendered?
Everyone* is "gendered." "Cisgendered" is used to distinguish from "transgendered."
That'd probably explain why I prefer 'gendered.' I'd much rather people stop dividing themselves from one another, unity is strength after all. Because everyone is indeed gendered.
It is true in a sense, but not in the same way as transgendered people would tend to think of it. Humans do not show the ability to differentiate genders until around 6 years of age, and thus do not pay attention to the concept at all before this point. Mentally, they see everyone as being the same gender as them, even if told otherwise. I myself remember how in Kindergarten I did not immediately think in terms of boys and girls, and neither did anyone else. By 1st Grade I was, and the boy/girl camps were mostly established.
Quite so. I can't find it, but there's also a Norwegian documentary somewhere where they interview Cohen and he tells them about his experiment with 1 day old babies. Babies were given two pictures, a face and a mechanical object. They observed which one the babies stared at longest. Those babies with higher levels of testosterone stared at the mechanical object, those without stared at the face. And as biologically male babies have around 2-3 times more testosterone than their female counterparts on average, it means that gender is learned from far before society even has a chance to impact it.
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