Gender identity: Nature or Nurture

 Is our gender Biologically or physiologically hardwired? Is it Nature or nurture?

Today, the world is so confused about identity and the family. A long time ago, everyone knew that sex meant a biological factor and a way to tell if the baby is a male or a female, we are born male or female. Then we stopped using the word sex to define it because people didn't like that word being repeated and used the word gender instead and said, "What is the gender of my baby"? The word gender has cultural meaning attached to being masculine or feminine which influences personality traits. This turned the question of is gender biological or physiological, in other words are we born the gender we are or do we choose as we grow and develop our personality. Most people think that with new technology in the world today and that being transgender is becoming a normal thing in our society that it makes it right, what they don't understand is the consequences and effects it will have later. I watched a few videos on this topic and it is sad that there are 4-12 year old that "declare their gender" because they don't feel like they belong and accepted as that gender. In one of the videos I watched it was this boy who played with girl toys and wanted to become a girl because his sister who was born after him had disabilities and needed more care and attention, he felt that his parents loved and cared for her more because she is a girl and he wanted to become a girl to get his parents love and attention. I also know from reading that those who have been abused as kids will more likely have problems with their own identity whether it is a boy and his father abused him so he doesn't want to be like him or not wanting to have those memories as you look at yourself so you change your gender. This is a huge problem because I believe that gender is biologically, we are born the way we are and I don't believe you can truly change genders because it is who we are. It is not assigned or developed later in life and that we need to think about what gender we re. Male and females are different because of our brain and how we think. I that we are born the gender we are meant to be and the environment allows us to develop our gender but it doesn't change it rather it strengthens it. In the Proclamation to the world it says, "Gender is an essential characteristic of individual premortal, mortal, and eternity identity and purpose." We were the same gender in the premortal life and will be in the next life so why would we change it in mortality. Heavenly Father created us this way and knows us so well, he wouldn't mess up on which gender we are. I think that as a female, it makes me better at understanding people and being able to help in feeling compassion for others at times then there are times when I feel aggression and want to just get something done and over with but I am thinking about too many things. I think that is why men are better at getting the task they are doing done because they focus on one thing at a time and women are better at connecting and understanding people is because they focus more on relationships and how everything connects. That is why men and women compliment and complete each other because they see things different and work together as a team. That is how I see it with me and my husband. Its like sister Dew says in her talk that your hands work together and compliment each other because they are exact opposites.

I thought this picture was funny because this is how I thought it was, but the world thinks there are like 70 different genders that exist. I thought it was interesting how society comes up with all kinds of things rather than just accepting themselves as they are.