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Originally Posted by chuff me dizzy
He hadnt just cut his hair short
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But he hadn't had his sex reassigned, that's the point. Biologically he was still female yet you rightly chose to address him by the
gender (not sex) he wished to be known as, which was and is a man
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Originally Posted by Marsh.
That's gender roles. You don't have to conform to what tradition indicates male and females must do but there are still two different genders coming from your sex.
Gender shouldn't dictate your behaviour or compel you to act one way or another, you should be yourself but you are one or the other.
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But it does, every person on the planet is defined by their gender before anything else (except maybe ethnicity but I'd still say gender is more obvious) and it's the gender roles, socialisation, conventions and stereotypes that make up your gender that every person takes on. Men are expected to have short hair, women longer. Men are socialised and expected to be hard, firm and confident. Women passive, emotional and caring. Boys are expected to play with certain toys etc etc, many of these things are blurring and crossing over one another as the years pass by (not without much criticism from people who say 'he's not being a real man!!' or 'that's not very ladylike'...notice these are gender stereotypes too) but still
You can present yourself as any gender you wish, it's how you outwardly identify yourself to other people. How you dress, how you look, how you act. That's how people see you, that is gender. Your biological sex (male or female) isn't known to most people most of the time, it is your gender that identifies you to other people not your genitalia
Audley,
Shocked at how hostile the crowd was to Frenchie. 
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