http://genderblogs.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-in-between/ Transgender Considerations Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:42:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://genderblogs.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-in-between/comment-page-1/#comment-70 jackwallin Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:26:19 +0000 http://genderblogs.com/?p=266#comment-70 I know this is old- but as well, this is my first blogging experience, and I'm really enjoying reading what everyone I has say. When it comes to gender and sexuality- I myself am confused to. I've grown up believing that we must identify one way or another. Even if your a female, doing 'boyish' things, you're called a tomboy.. vice versa and be known as 'girly-boy'. at least that's how it was where I grew up. Even if you identify one way or another sexually, it seems as though gender identity is supposed and assumed for you, and then you get into the issues of how gender means something different to everyone who utters the syllables. In our society it seems as though gender has been so engrained in our experiences that it is hard to seperate and define the identities that people struggle with. If, as a female I wear men's clothes does my gender identity become more mascule or even male? If I am male, and wear as dress, am I seen as a cross-dresser? transgendered? do I then identify as a female, or at least feminine? or is it something more that identifies our gender. Does it go deeper than our appearance and societies assumptions? I don't think it's something we can escape and groping with the issue of identity is not something easily definable or explainable. I myself and struggling to figure out where everything fits into the large scheme of things I know this is old- but as well, this is my first blogging experience, and I’m really enjoying reading what everyone I has say. When it comes to gender and sexuality- I myself am confused to. I’ve grown up believing that we must identify one way or another. Even if your a female, doing ‘boyish’ things, you’re called a tomboy.. vice versa and be known as ‘girly-boy’. at least that’s how it was where I grew up. Even if you identify one way or another sexually, it seems as though gender identity is supposed and assumed for you, and then you get into the issues of how gender means something different to everyone who utters the syllables.
In our society it seems as though gender has been so engrained in our experiences that it is hard to seperate and define the identities that people struggle with. If, as a female I wear men’s clothes does my gender identity become more mascule or even male? If I am male, and wear as dress, am I seen as a cross-dresser? transgendered? do I then identify as a female, or at least feminine? or is it something more that identifies our gender. Does it go deeper than our appearance and societies assumptions? I don’t think it’s something we can escape and groping with the issue of identity is not something easily definable or explainable. I myself and struggling to figure out where everything fits into the large scheme of things

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