Society's Influence On Gender

Ever since the day we are conceived in our mothers wound the question everyone asks is whether the baby will be a boy or a girl. The sex of the baby is represented by the reproductive organs the baby has and that determines whether the baby is a boy or a girl. It’s the biological determination whether the baby has a XX or XY chromosome that overall determines the sex. It also is linked later on in the child’s life when they go through puberty and start noticing changes in their voices or their body. Although sex is the biological there is also gender that does not have to be the same as sex. Gender is the social and cultural role that is given in society. This is how we like to perceived ourselves among our society and it’s influenced by many …show more content…
I was raised in a very conservative family of 3 girls and I happened to be the oldest. I tended to always be around my dad and I learned how to do a lot of stuff girls in society did not do. I like to play physically sports, get dirty doing farm work, and play video games with guys. Although I was a girl I did not fit the criteria because I didn’t care about my appearance and rather spend time playing outside with the guys than play with dolls. That’s when I was called a tomboy because I had some of the same characteristics and interest of boys of my age. At that time it was not a big deal to me but after time i adapted to the feminine activities because my family guided toward it. My sex and gender were the same but I fell into a category of a tomboy because I enjoyed rough activities like boys. I was the oldest and all my cousins happened to be boys so I played with them and my parents found nothing wrong with …show more content…
For example I had a cousin who dressed like a girl and talked like a girl but her sex was male. Although our family understood that she wanted to be considered a girl they continued to call her by his name and said this was a phase and she would realize she was actually a boy. All my family is very conservative so for this to occur made it hard for many of the men hard to understand but there was an obvious difference in treatment. They did not understand that my cousin who was born as a male wanted to be considered a woman based on his feelings and behaviors. Time has passed now and she has gotten the respect she deserved. Sex and gender are to completely different classification but both are needed in our society. Sex is the biological aspect of it and gender becomes the social aspect that helps a person find their role in society. Understanding the difference between both can help us distinguishes the problems we have to fix in our society that have been created from the misinterpretations of sex and