When I was at the high school, I had a friend named Carlos. He was straight, but people thought he was gay. He had many troubles because people didn’t accept another gender identity different than heterosexual. Teens from the high school judged others depending on how they looked and not how they were inside. Today we humans are not that different because we tend to judge others before we know them. But we judge depending on small things like race, gender, and ethnicity. For that reason, establishing more categories of gender identity can lead to a less understanding between people.
People can start adding more categories to differentiate gender identities. In the article, “Facebook Multiples Genders but Offers Users the Same Three Tired Pronouns,” …show more content…
We humans are afraid of things we don’t know, and that is something natural. For that reason, we humans judge people before we know them. For example, the thoughts that Muslims are terrorist or that most Mexicans are murderers are more because we don’t know those persons than real facts. And it will be the same with more categories for gender identities. As soon as people identify themselves into the new categories, other people will try to avoid them. And it will happen because people don’t know and don’t want to know about other people who are different. I remember how many times my mom insisted on avoiding strange people. One could think that with more categories people will know more about the others, but we can recall the past where with only two categories people had many differences. As Quindlen states, “[Men] are gazing across a divide at me, not because of big differences among us, but because small ones” (73). In fact, she is writing about small differences and how those differences divide people. Therefore, we can imagine the effect of having more differences like categories to the gender …show more content…
Because people defend their beliefs more than anything else, there will be a division relating the genre of people. It is known that many religions don’t accept the identities of the others, and people from those religions teach their sons to avoid the others. But it goes further than just religions; for example, Quindlen argues that “we want to believe so badly that there are no others at all, because over the course of human history being other has meant being symbols of divinity, evil, carnal degeneration…” (73) In fact, once people fit into those categories people who don’t accept the others will avoid them. In addition, it will affect other fields. For instance, if employers search about potential employees using social media, they won’t hire people who belong to gender identities that the employer doesn't want. And there will be more problems concerning the bathrooms. We already have many problems in some states about transgender and bathrooms, and we only have 5 gender identities so far. If we add even more identities, there will be more inequality and therefore less
People can start adding more categories to differentiate gender identities. In the article, “Facebook Multiples Genders but Offers Users the Same Three Tired Pronouns,” …show more content…
We humans are afraid of things we don’t know, and that is something natural. For that reason, we humans judge people before we know them. For example, the thoughts that Muslims are terrorist or that most Mexicans are murderers are more because we don’t know those persons than real facts. And it will be the same with more categories for gender identities. As soon as people identify themselves into the new categories, other people will try to avoid them. And it will happen because people don’t know and don’t want to know about other people who are different. I remember how many times my mom insisted on avoiding strange people. One could think that with more categories people will know more about the others, but we can recall the past where with only two categories people had many differences. As Quindlen states, “[Men] are gazing across a divide at me, not because of big differences among us, but because small ones” (73). In fact, she is writing about small differences and how those differences divide people. Therefore, we can imagine the effect of having more differences like categories to the gender …show more content…
Because people defend their beliefs more than anything else, there will be a division relating the genre of people. It is known that many religions don’t accept the identities of the others, and people from those religions teach their sons to avoid the others. But it goes further than just religions; for example, Quindlen argues that “we want to believe so badly that there are no others at all, because over the course of human history being other has meant being symbols of divinity, evil, carnal degeneration…” (73) In fact, once people fit into those categories people who don’t accept the others will avoid them. In addition, it will affect other fields. For instance, if employers search about potential employees using social media, they won’t hire people who belong to gender identities that the employer doesn't want. And there will be more problems concerning the bathrooms. We already have many problems in some states about transgender and bathrooms, and we only have 5 gender identities so far. If we add even more identities, there will be more inequality and therefore less