Some people may not realize that there is a difference between sex and gender. Sex refers to a person’s biologically status; male, female, or intersex. Factors that determine the sex are internal reproductive organs, external genitalia, sex chromosomes, and more. Gender refers to the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with someone’s biological sex. Someone’s sex and gender don’t always have to be the same. Most people don’t realize that gender is performed. As we grow up, we are taught how to act more feminine or masculine depending on what your biological sex is. Because we learn from a young age what is consider more masculine or feminine, when someone acts out of the norm, society tends to question why they dress or act “differently”.
Everything society does, from the way we get ready in the morning to how we dress follows a certain script about what is “normal” for someone who is feminine and masculine. Society usually looks down on people who want to be there own person and change the way they do their own daily activities. The way people act and perform their genders change depending on what is consider the norm at that specific time period.
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