Response To Gender Revolution

Response to “Gender Revolution”
In her television documentary “Gender Revolution,” Katie Couric an American journalist meets with the leading scientists, surgeons, and experts of their field to answer questions regarding gender identity. Couric states that not too long ago “it use to be so simple, you were a boy or you were a girl, girls wear pink boys wear blue, girls played with dolls boys played with trucks, but that was then.” nowadays it's more than boy and girl when it comes to gender identity. She then interviews several people to get their opinion regarding non-traditional gender. Although she successfully raises awareness regarding non-traditional genders and their problems to some extent, for two hours show she did not exactly explain gender revolution. I believe that in her documentary she tries to tell her audience that transgender …show more content…
He briefly explains how intersex happens, which I thought it was very educational. However, Couric only refers to intersex babies to explain her entire interviews as if all non-traditional genders are only related to babies with both sex organs. How about homosexuals? or babies that have male sex organs but when they reach puberty they experience same-sex attraction? something she did not talk about in her documentary about gender revolution.
Overall Couric did not focus on gender revolution; however, she mentioned some issues that non-traditional genders may face in their life. I believe we have not reached gender revolution yet. I argue that we cannot talk about gender revolution when many people cannot fully understand non-traditional genders and respect them for who they are. All the problems that transsexual community is facing today illustrates my point. Many people argue that transgender should not use public restrooms because of various reasons as it was also mentioned in the Couric's