Defining the Wires: 15 Gender-Related Terms You May Be Using Incorrectly

I promise I'll start talking about pop culture soon. Really, I will. Aaaaand, I'd like to do so from a social justice informed perspective, and make sure we've got vaguely similar ideas of what that means. So now that you've mastered sociopolitical realities 101, here are 15 gender-related terms you may not be as familiar with as you think.

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Gender:

• Which refers to the rules, norms, customs, and practices through which biologically associated differences (e.g. primary sex characteristics-note: link NSFW, secondary sex characteristics-note: link NSFW, chromosomal sex-note: link SFW, etc.) between people are translated into socially constructed differences between men and women, and boys and girls. These socially constructed differences award unequal value, opportunities and life chances to people based upon their gender.
• Despite the fact that history and anthropology suggest that human conceptualization of gender has not always been binary, many modern cultures understand gender as either/or, female or male. Socialization in the culture of this binary understanding starts quite early: