I see it as both; the reason why is binary is as old as humans are, it has to do with evolution; with the biological characteristics of the male and the female body. At the beginning, millions of years ago there was not space for exploration. Your body was really a survival tool. The female body tend to be more vulnerable than that of man, and at the same time was in high demand. Since new member of the group would come only through the female body. Some researchers have pointed that before the domestication of the horse it was woman the main mean of transportation of goods when the gropes had to move to better lands. It was women who used to work in the fields etc; Women were vulnerable; they were important, therefore highly protected, but they also were exploited. This, over million of years contributed to the development of a culture surrounding this unavoidable differences. So there is the origin of that binary system, in order to survive you had to play your part, which was defined by your body, simple, there was no choice. Gender as I conceive it, is a cultural response to this unavoidable difference. We created this paraphernalia in order to appropriated to colonize, the process of creation made us powerful, and with this in mind we created many other things, religion, science, arts, in short; culture. As we learned how to control, predict, redirect the forces of nature, the strength in which the binary system was reinforced was decreased too. However it was to late it kept it going, till our days, is not something good or bad, it is here and I might say that it has life on its own. The women's liberation movement is an attempt to escape its influence, how effective was that another story.
In the transgender/transsexual phenomenon this two realities, the gender spectrum and the binary system play important parts. I would not say that is just one of them who move us to do what we do. I see that they overlap most of the time; we claim a biological difference in our brains and try to solve it by seeking refuge in living in another gender, so we create the narrative of the gender spectrum in order to have a destination, this is valid. Those who claim to be more transsexual than others I believe are missing the point.
If the feminine lives in you, is something that you only know, even if you never transition. As a social construct how did this came to be? I know it exist, I have it in me, I accept it in me, the feminine mystic. Is a mystery and I want to keep it like that, from that mystery come its strength. Besides, is a woman thing that of accepting nature, of living with it. Woman is so close to nature is mystery, is intuition, acceptance, Reason, is a man thing..
I see it as both, the reason; the reason why is binary as old as humans are, it has to do with evolution; with the biological characteristics of the male and the female body. At the beginning, millions of years ago there was not space for exploration. Your body was really a survival tool. The female body tend to be more vulnerable than that of man, and at the same time was in high demand. Since new member of the group would come only through the female body. Some researchers have pointed that before the domestication of the horse it was woman the main mean of transportation of goods when the gropes had to move to better lands. It was women who used to work in the fields etc; Women were vulnerable; they were important, therefore highly protected, but they also were exploited. This, over million of years contributed to the development of a culture surrounding this unavoidable differences. So there is the origin of that binary system, in order to survive you had to play your part, which was defined by your body, simple, there was no choice. Gender as I conceive it, is a cultural response to this unavoidable difference. We created this paraphernalia in order to appropriated to colonize, the process of creation made us powerful, and with this in mind we created many other things, religion, science, arts, in short; culture. As we learned how to control, predict, redirect the forces of nature, the strength in which the binary system was reinforced was decreased too. However it was to late it kept it going, till our days, is not something good or bad, it is here and I might say that it has life on its own. The women's liberation movement is an attempt to escape its influence, how effective was that another story.
In the transgender/transsexual phenomenon this two realities, the gender spectrum and the binary system play important parts. I would not say that is just one of them who move us to do what we do. I see that they overlap most of the time; we claim a biological difference in our brains and try to solve it by seeking refuge in living in another gender, so we create the narrative of the gender spectrum in order to have a destination, this is valid. Those who claim to be more transsexual than others I believe are missing the point.
If the feminine lives in you, is something that you only know, even if you never transition. As a social construct how did this came to be? I know it exist, I have it in me, I accept it in me, the feminine mystic. Is a mystery and I want to keep it like that, from that mystery come its strength. Besides, is a woman thing that of accepting nature, of living with it. Woman is so close to nature is mystery, is intuition, acceptance, Reason, is a man thing..
