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The Fluidity of Gender and Sexuality | Tuse Mahenya | TEDxUWCSA


sexuality organ flex would not be an
understatement yet throughout time we’ve
taken such complicated concepts and have
managed to reduce them to these
simplistic binaries such as male and
female so to understand the fluidity of
gender and sexuality we need to revisit
the basics now for most of us the terms
gender and sex are used interchangeably
and thus incorrect me this is not to say
that it’s not easy to confuse the two
however it is important to remember that
these two terms have next to nothing in
common
gender I mean sex
also known as biological gender includes
physical attributes like external
genitalia internal reproductive
structures sex chromosomes hormones that
kind of stuff and I’m birth it’s used to
identify you and me as either male or
female gender however is far more
complicated than that it’s this
interconnection it’s this
interrelationship between your sex your
gender identity which is this inner most
understand
that you as a person have with yourself
it’s how you perceive yourself and how
he went and how you intend of use to
receive you and lastly there’s your
gender expression which is the way you
externally communicate this gender
identity to the people around you in
your voice when your clothes or your
haircut or you know any other form of
presentation not the longest time
societies around this have you generate
such a strict binary system consisting
of two opposite sides male-female we are
born assigned to gender – my legs are
sent out into the world to adhere to the
roles and expectations of the said
gender Novus Nest and tell us along
we’re surrounded by these roles and
expectations through our lives in the
way they were raised in our schools and
our culture’s and our religions these
roles are embedded into our
understanding of ourselves so in these
ways gender is a social construct it is
monitored and reinforced as
scene from toys to clothes cult to toys
to clothes behaviors careers
these beliefs aren’t embedded into our
mistiming for ourselves however for
those however for those of us who can
confront to this societal rules and
expectations for reasons beyond
society’s comprehension when a
persistent identity
clashes with these binary systems they
simply brought in the right a system set
by our societies and then what then the
diversity of genders created by the way
each of us in this room think about
ourselves and who we are is different
dancer can’t be the same and what
shouldn’t this variation right here
stops gender from inviting it becomes so
complex so difficult to understand but
so beautiful now the case is the same
with the sexuality binary system since
same defaults that determine our gender
at birth are almost immediately used to
determine our sexual orientation which
is very 94 the sexual attraction
person how happy people distinct genders
you working with different genders you
or both or neither so let me present to
you the dynamics of the sexuality
binding system because it presents these
so these societal expectations so in a
person’s gender identity classes of
these societal expectations they brought
of them and for similar reasons to think
the cases of major sexuality binding
system so but before we before we start
cutting ourselves in the back from
moving forward with all that lies on the
spectrum of gender and sexuality other
less noticeable issues need to be
addressed issues which I think best
demonstrate this lack of food is you
would live the gender and sexuality
so by now most of us are familiar with
at least two letters the
ever-lengthening afternoon that is the L
g bt q i a plus community so let me
present to you that i not makes that
existed in this community the results in
the internal stigmatization of an
already stigmatized with people now from
this from these two separate binary
systems the terms heteronormativity
insist negativity are created and simply
put heteronormative ‘ti is the belief
that we’re all born heterosexual or
straight and as we saw the tire tracks
into members of the opposite sex male to
female female to male and then there’s
this normativity which is the belief
that we are all cisgender meaning that
our gender identity matches our sex but
with the existence of different
sexualities a spectrum is created
between homosexuality and
heterosexuality and as a result these
two separate concepts heterosexuality
and homosexuality become the norms they
are at the edges of the spectrum and as
a result they treat people within that
spectrum people whose sexuality is
different from both with varying degrees
of acceptance interesting speaking I’ve
had both a heterosexual
essential people not understand my my
sexuality because slightly more complex
sexual identity and if you think about
it that way the effects of the sexuality
binary both ways and as a result we tend
to see here both heterosexual and
homosexual people marginalizing people
whose identity this variation I mean
this mistreatment in my opinion exists
for the same reason that homosexuality
does men who voted us since because
gender fluidity and sexual fluidity have
not yet been fully be considered now
this little girl had no idea what
homosexuality was until she was 13 or 14
but she didn’t know that the first 17
years the first seven years her straight
boy obsessed life were just as bad as
the next ten and this is why we need to
certain viewing gender and sexuality is
complex because it’s not some of you can
choose for others or ourselves it varies
between people for most human reasons
like one person’s gender identity can
add to their sex as easily as another
person’s can change from one day to the
next and granted this can get a little
confusing but it shouldn’t be cause for
worry ok us it just happens
it’s that complex so what did it make
all our lives a little bit easier if we
could all have a say in the way we felt
about who we are and how we would send
selves for the world around us it’s that
easy with Lisa to be
[Applause]
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