According to this week’s lecture, there is no such a thing as a real man or a real woman. On “Social construction of gender” on Wikipedia, gender roles are created by society and culture. There is an example of the socially constructed displays of gender, which is transgender identity. People identify a transgender person as female even though she is biologically a man. West and Zimmerman also states that gender is produced within social interactions, therefore, it is an “accomplishment.” When people “know” the social norms in terms of gender appropriate behaviors, they perform these roles, reinforcing the socially structured gender categories. On the lecture notes, it says that gender categories are unstable, so in order to keep them stable,
