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Saw this at the City of Sacramento's Richards Blvd facility on 3rd floor. Rather progressive! It has two separate unisex restrooms adjoining this sign.
Oh ... there was a state law passed which mandates all single occupancy restrooms must be unisex. It seems various facilities are slowly implementing this, in various ways. So far, most just use 'unisex' rather than 'all gender'. Given how widely people tend to use 'sex' and 'gender' interchangeably, either would be fitting. I only would insist on changing the icon of 🚻 to 🚾 or a toilet ... something obviously a restroom/water closet/washroom but totally gender neutral.
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Pia Nachtsheim
Gender Bender
© 2014 K Jabbour
Vive la différence, say the French
But for many females it’s nothing to celebrate
Destiny determined by gender
For some
The second X chromosome is a death sentence
Parents can only afford one child, and they want a boy
So execution comes by water or fire
Or abandoned, to starve or be eaten alive
For others
The extra X chromosome is a prison sentence
Life behind curtains, never to feel the sun on skin
Glimpsing the outside world through a grate of mesh
Darting unnoticed through the crowds, invisible
For most
The extra X chromosome means servitude
Restrictions and double standards
Reduced to a possession with a purpose
Like a cow for milk or ox for heavy lifting
For the lucky
The lack of Y chromosome means low expectations
No need to be smart or hardworking
Only pretty and charming, to marry well
Ok not so lucky for plain or independent girls
For the severely unlucky
The second X chromosome ravages
Savage rape, incest, sexual slavery
Or genital mutilation (“circumcision”) –
Never to know pleasure
But what baffles me most –
Maybe I’m naïve or androgynous –
How much difference is there, anyway?
We all have hearts, minds and souls
Remarkably similar bodies
Dreams, hopes and desires
One life to live –
Why can’t all of us be allowed to live?
Of course there are differences
It can’t all be socialization
Even if the great divide
Is miniscule in some individuals
But is it enough to merit injustice?
Yin and yang speak of balance and equality
But where is the gender equality
In the nation that produced this philosophy?
Yang is a gong, demanding glory
Yin is the slow growth of crops a farmer takes credit for
Is it any wonder then –
American women increasingly nurture the yang
And banish the yin
Where have our “feminine qualities” gotten us?
Gentleness, grace, consensus and compassion
Gets us underemployed and underappreciated
Disrespected and disregarded
So we’ve learned to get ahead by mimicking men
Aggressive, dominant, badass
Amassing material possessions, power and ego
Hard to believe we couldn’t even vote a century ago!
Now politicians sweat rocks to woo us
And our power as consumers is formidable
But at what cost
To us and the world?
Can’t we use our power to change our culture
To value the subtle, understated and essential
Wherever it’s found, in male or female?
And how does it advance the cause of women
If we have to become like men to succeed?
Denying a part of ourselves so desperately needed
In our families, friendships, and communities
Raw nerves at every turn
If only we could honor all of who we are
We could join the French with enthusiasm:
Oui, vive la différence!
This is an autobiographical memoir written (and drawn) by a woman identifying as non-binary who is now in her early ‘30s. It is a graphic novel presumably for young people that depicts her coming of age development and her discovery of her non-binary identity and preferred pronouns. This is the book that was read aloud by a mom at a school board meeting in Virginia before her mike was shut off. The main complaint of this mom was that the book has pornographic images of sexual activity, masturbation scenes and acts of pedophilia in that one of the masturbation fantasies shows an erect man fondling a boy’s erect penis. This last happens to be an image in the style of ancient Greek art, while the other scenes depict the author’s actual body. I got my copy in the adult section of the San Carlos library, but I did note that in Belmont it was shelved in the teen section.
The images shown out of context did shock me at first when I saw them on a youtube podcast, but in the context of the narrative flow they are appropriate to the telling of this person’s life. Technically speaking these images may qualify as pornographic and subject to laws presiding over such. I can see why parents would object to the book.
More of interest to me is the logic of the narrator. A lot can be forgiven a person telling their own story. After all one reads memoirs to find out how a person thinks, but the reader will also have their own thoughts about the narrator and will be assessing if this narrator has insight into their behavior and a sense of perspective within what is commonly perceived by society to be reality or if they have sandbagged themselves into a fictional world not supported by current agreed upon reality.
It is clear that the author has poured forth her most vulnerable moments onto the page and has thus successfully conveyed the truth of her pain. This earns her the respect of the reader. It is also clear from her use of underarm deodorant and a scene of medical trauma at a gynecological exam that she has an abnormally low threshold of pain and a highly reactive body which clearly affects her emotionally. And despite further medical traumas and grieving a relationship that has ended it does not occur to her to seek any kind of counseling even though she has so many questions.
As to her identity the conclusions she comes to are highly influenced by current trends in gender identity. She bases much of her non-binary identity on what in my day would have been the preferences of a butch lesbian. She wants to wear men’s clothes and cut her hair short; she celebrates the discovery that she can buy underwear in the boys department. She is mortified when she gets her period and says she believed it would not happen to her.
As to her sexuality she imagines herself to be fondling an imaginary penis and having gay sex with another man. I have had this same fantasy as have other lesbians; it is a subset of lesbian culture that was even a subplot in the movie The Kids Are Alright. Even some straight women have admitted to me that gay sex turns them on. No doubt about it gay men are hot. The dilemma of this eroticism of gay sex and her attempting to sort out her identity becomes bound together in her mind as if we are not as human beings allowed to indulge in acts of the imagination outside of our own physical limitations. She is meanwhile attracted to both sexes, but finds relationships so confusing she doesn’t want to date anyone. Her parents who seem to be the coolest, back-to-the-land, hippie parents are supportive of her in her identity as bisexual, but her mother pushes back a little on her rejection of a female identity.
The pronouns concept is an idea she learns from having a teacher in college who identifies as non-binary, but is clearly drawn as a woman and has a woman’s name. And she discusses with her friends how difficult it is to get the they/them pronouns right, but congratulates herself that with practice it comes naturally. She meets another cool person who is a pagan spirituality teacher and a woman who identifies as non-binary because being a woman is so “performative”. Eventually our heroine too wants a non-binary identity. The only push back she receives is from her lesbian aunt who wants her to explain why she wants to adopt a non-binary identity and points out that the whole trend of women wanting to become men is so misogynistic. She rejects the criticism and can’t really say why. She just knows she is neither sex.
Finally she finds a book (Touching A Nerve) by a neurophillosopher who explains how surges of hormone in the brain while in the womb can masculinize the brain. (This author faulted for heavy use of conjecture in her intent to disprove the existence of a soul.) But this is the explanation our heroine has been looking for that seems to put her mind to rest because now she has a scientific explanation proving she was born this way. Yet such explanations do not really compel a need for departing from one's sex. She more seems to want to not have to respond to gender expectations, but her obsessive focus on this expectation is easily a mental health issue in itself; perhaps of autism famously linked with gender identity issues. Her sister is dating a trans man who is using testosterone and asks her why she doesn’t want to be a trans man. She says she doesn’t want any more gendered traits. She wants less. But to let her know if testosterone will allow her to grow a penis. To want less gendered traits is certainly legitimate. Whether this should compel a third sex is frankly anti-science as we know it.
She chooses the pronouns known as the Spivak pronouns e/eim/eir. This allows her to develop a sense of fashion style for herself. She uses a binder which is uncomfortable so she dreams of getting top surgery.
The book ends as she becomes a comics teacher and is deciding to come out to her class as non-binary so that she may help some other kid who is questioning their gender identity. This is supposed to complete the cycle from questioning to acceptance.
This ending leaves me hanging as there is no underlying revelation to explain her choice in any satisfactory way. The conclusion I come to is that this bookish, highly sensitive introvert who spends a good deal of time writing fan fiction for various fantasy novels is overwhelmed by gender expectations which is conflated with the limitations of her sex so that she cannot quite bring herself to accept the reality of her sex and must instead elevate a recently created identity in the perfect world of gender ideology. If only everyone would validate her by remembering to use her pronouns. This feels like a bandaid on a mental health issue.
The book assumes that such a day will come when we are all walking validation units for gender ideology. This takes indoctrination of an entire society to accept this ideology and prioritize it over the parameters of biology—an observed scientific truth that has nothing to do with the prescribed gender traits that so repelled this author.
It annoys me that a secular society claiming to have separated Church from State should now compel its citizens to use the proscribed transubstantiation language of pronouns on pain of substantial fines and possibly termination from employment.
This gender identity phenomena provides an answer to those not at ease in their own skin with their own biology. I might have been compelled to explore the same explanation if I did not already have a reincarnation ideology to explain my masculine persona. Which is why I’m so offended by how such a religious idea is being taught to children in a secular society as if it were science and we are expected to go along with it whether we believe it or not. While my non-western beliefs are not even mentioned as a possible explanation. I count this as another form of Western colonization, an export of American cultural imperialism and social extremism.
This is Gender & Sexualization at its finest. The barbies, and bright pink colors are a perfect example of the social norm of what girls want to play with.
This is Gender & Sexualization In the sense that this is specifically marketed to boys. Between the cars, trucks, and blue colors, this is the social norm for what boys would want.
an illustration I did for a magazine -- the article was about women at the forefront of politics & economy. This was fun!
The CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform brought together CGIAR researchers working toward the Gender Equality, Youth and Social Inclusion Impact Area for a three-day CGIAR GENDER Science Exchange focused on gender and social inclusion in food, land and water systems. The conference that ran from 12-14 October, 2022 in Nairobi also featured launch of CGIAR GENDER as an Impact Platform
Photo: N.Ronoh/CGIAR GENDER
The CGIAR GENDER Impact Platform brought together CGIAR researchers working toward the Gender Equality, Youth and Social Inclusion Impact Area for a three-day CGIAR GENDER Science Exchange focused on gender and social inclusion in food, land and water systems. The conference that ran from 12-14 October, 2022 in Nairobi also featured launch of CGIAR GENDER as an Impact Platform
Photo: N.Ronoh/CGIAR GENDER
Girlie blonde curls I love this look,love my soft pink cut off sweater too.they compliment each other,hope I complete sexy look
Apologies for the prominent profanity on this banner. But, it is hanging in public view, in a courtyard at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York.
The gender symposium questions the idea that people can all be lumped into two categories: male and female. Or, even a few more categories: straight, bisexual, homosexual, and transgendered. It presumes that what we refer to as "gender" falls into a broad spectrum. And, we should stop trying to put people into categories.
So, the very notion of gender should really be eliminated.
I've never flagged a photo before, for the content filters, so if I can't figure out how to give it one of those yellow dots, pretty fast, I'll soon be deleting this photo. (Found it!)
Only jenny and the technician knew the sex, blue or pink vanilla cream gave it away when everyone dug in!
The differentiation and dimorphism of gender identity from conception to maturity
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1972 book that combines experimental and clinical data in this report on human development and the relation of sexual differentiation and social roles.
"In Man and Woman, Boy and Girl, John Money and Anke Ehrhardt offer a comprehensive account of sexual differentiation using genetics, embryology, endocrinology and neuro-endocrinology, psychology, and anthropology. Their multidisciplinary approach to gender identity avoids the old arguments over nature versus nurture. Money and Ehrhardt focus instead on the interaction of hereditary endowment and environmental influence. Money and Ehrhardt's work will lead many readers to the conclusion that the differences between man and man, or woman and woman, can be as great as between man and woman.
This was required reading in my human sexuality class in college. I thought it was well presented and researched. It defies some of the gender role and gender identification theories by explaining the gender spectrum in very graphic terms. It will make some people VERY uncomfortable, but it makes a valid point I believe, there are many ways to define gender and how individuals identify with their gender. It does not support the popular theory that we are born genetically predisposed to a particular sexual orientation. Instead the book suggests that regardless of how male or how female you may be genetically you may choose which sex you prefer in your physical or emotional relationships. Blasphemy to some, but it goes a long way to clearing up some of the ambiguity about gender roles and gender identification."
Jonathan Van Voorhees, August 4, 2015.
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