David

11/18/08

I have been taught from birth that gender and sex are interchangeable words for whether the man is a definite man or woman, and that sexuality is whether the person is attracted to the same or opposite sex, or both, or neither. I’ve been told that transgender people could be any sexuality, but since they aren’t a definite man, whether they like it or not, they cannot say they are a man or a woman, since they simply weren’t. They can identify with men or women, considered sexual identity, but they simply were not a man or a woman, because they did not have the right equipment.

Apparently, this wide, specific idea was wrong.

Many people, especially transgender and bi- and homosexual people, now say that gender and sex have different meanings. Before I am called sexist, I would like to point out that my definition of everything here was specific, covered everything, didn’t degrade anybody, didn’t leave anyone out, and didn’t say any one idea of sexuality was better than another. It simply defined the terms and that’s it.

I’m not one to unjustly persecute anyone or judge people. I’m not a mean person. And that’s not to say that every person I mean that is trans-, bi-, or homosexual is either. I simply do not like it when something that I’ve grown up on is being change by a select few, outspoken people who can’t accept society’s definitions for them.

“Society’s definition” in this day in age has many bad connotations stuck to it. Definitions such as “emo”, “punk”, and “preppy” do have bad connotations and are degrading and stereotypical to whomever they are stuck to. Many people believe social definitions will turn our country into a dystopia, or bring out total anarchy. However, not all definitions made by society are bad. For instance, I am defined in society as white, teenaged, male, middle-class, and lazy. Those definitions are not bad, nor are they even false. Those definition society has imposed on me are not degrading, but rather, defining.

I’m all for not stereotyping people, but when those people make mountains out of molehills when they feel they must be completely different from everyone else, I personally feel like people are losing their common sense. While I agree that certain “society definitions” are bad, lots of one like “male”, “female”, “homosexual”, “bisexual”, and “gender” are not evil at all, but rather simple facts. When people want to change simple facts to meet their wants contrary to the rest of the populace, something is wrong. That would be like saying two plus two equal sixty-three, simply because I don’t agree with “society’s definition” of mathematics. It is pointless and argumentative, and I do not approve.