Lorber states that, “paradoxically.. bending gender rules and passing between genders does not erode but rather preserves gender boundaries” (2007: 45). The two keywords in Lorber’s statement are “rules” and “boundaries,” because as long as society functions within those established rules and boundaries, the two gender framework will not be uprooted. The man who dresses in feminine clothing is still acting within the two gender system because ultimately a woman is what society sees. Lorber’s assessment is correct because in order to really erode gender boundaries there needs to no longer be a two gender system that people can float between; there needs to a more open ended and more individualistic approach to …show more content…
While recognition and acceptance of non-binary genders is the right way forward, more needs to be done. Ideally, the rules and boundaries of gender need to be loosened; the idyllic portrayal of what a man and woman are stripped away. A society that operates on newborn babies to mold them into a two gender system and uses language as a means of keeping the two genders distant, is both ignoring the millions of people who do not fit into the system and actively fighting against biology which tells us that the genders are not so different. A person who does not fit their gender should not have to choose between the gender they were assigned and the gender they were not. The spectrum of gender is not a venn diagram with distinct boundaries, but rather a boundaryless space for individuals to determine who they are for