Discrimination Based On Gender Identity

“Gender is like a Rubik’s Cube with one hundred squares per side, and every time you twist it to take a look at another angle, you make it that much harder a puzzle to solve.” (Sam Killermann). In today's society in American culture, we are taught that we only have two options when it comes to gender, male or female. However, there are more and more people coming out and saying, enough with the binary. These people identify outside of the traditional roles of male and female, and are working to teach our society just what gender is. However, these individuals still face discrimination based on their gender identities, because our society isn’t aware and educated about non-binary genders. American society needs to become more accepting of those who identify …show more content…
Something that Americans need to realize in order to become more accepting of non binary people, or people who identify outside of male and female, is that gender identity is a complex thing that is completely different from the sex you are assigned to at birth. As Courtney Act puts it: ¨...There´s gender, sexuality, and sex. Sex is what? between your legs, gender is what's between your ears, and then sexuality is who you're sexually attracted to… Your gender is how you feel about it, and your gender expression is how you present yourself to the world.¨. Gender identity, sex, and sexuality are three completely different things, all independent of each other. Sex, sexuality, and gender do not always have to correlate with how they are traditionally perceived. Gender expression is also another completely separate thing from gender identity. Gender expression is how you present your gender