Because the respondent is a family member, I was aware that they identified as a cisgendered man. However, I also knew they were cisgendered based on first-person stories I’ve been told over the years, frequent remarks about what is means to be a man and how to behave on a relatively normal basis. I also chose this person because I knew that they would be able to understand and answer my questions more thoroughly than other people in my family due to their work background and college experience. Also, the respondent prides themselves on being open-minded, so I decided to see for myself whether or not this person was open-minded …show more content…
Without much direction from their mother, the respondent 's identity is still closely tied to the Latin community and its demands; they state that “being a Latin male, in my mind, have strong, dark features, vitality, endless youth, and Latin fire. The women are very sexual and the men are strong. There is no doubt about what gender people identify within the Latin community”. Thus relaying that gender identity is closely related to their born sex and they have not made the distinction between gender terms and sex terms: “‘Gender doesn’t mean anything to me because there is no difference between male/man and female/woman’”. In the respondent 's case, social control seems to be more active through the macro-level management of gender than micro-level management by personal