Been reading a lot of research about sexuality and gender lately, and the deeper I dig, the more I understand that it’s not as cut and dry as it’s made out to seem. You know, like how we used to learn about it in biology class - XX or XY and that’s it, but turns out, there’s a lot more to it.
The concepts of sexuality and gender are so fluid and complex in nature. There’s an entire spectrum of identities, from non-binary to genderqueer and so many others. It’s amazing when you stop to think about it.
For instance, the difference between gender identity and biological sex - growing up, I thought these two were the same, but that’s not the case. Your biological sex is assigned at birth, but your gender identity? That’s something you feel inside, something that might align or not align with your biological sex.
And attraction? That’s another web. You got hetero, homo, bi, pan and aces, the list goes on. And some people find they don’t even fit into these boxes, and that’s okay too.
I guess, what I’m trying to get at here is that, there’s so much I didn’t know. It’s a lot to unpack and understand. There’s a real need for open conversation, we need to unlearn much of what we thought was ‘the norm’ and learn new perspectives, new ways of understanding 🤔
