Comparing The Social Construction Of Gender By Tracey Wilson And Harriet Cunningham

In this video, Tracey Wilson and Harriet Cunningham are identified as girls who were born as boys. They both had experience difficulties such as rejection, bullying etc. Their parents had accepted and supported them but other people have not. A question was asked, “ who gets to decided whether they are a boy or a girl?”. In Judith Lorber’s article, “ The Social Construction of Gender,” Lorber states that gender, as a social institution, is one major ways that human beings organize their lives. She also stated that gender and sex are not equivalent, and gender as a social construction does not flow automatically from genitalia and reproductive organs, the main physiological differences of females and males. It potrays that your gender is not