Reflective tag:

This is a rather short artifact that goes straight to the point. Most people believe in binary gender, having only two genders, but in reality there are so many other genders around the world, some are chosen and some are forced to change. There are some cultures that accept this view on gender, that it’s a person’s right to be what they believe they are, and there are some cultures that condemn those that want to alter the body they were given.

Artifact 4:

In society, there are two genders; this is how it has been for all of known history, male and female. This way of thinking is called binary, and this is the way most people think, there are no mixes or medical anomalies, well I hate to break it to you if you are one of these people but there are third genders out there, actually there are way more than three. There are males, females, transgender, bi-gender, nonconforming gender, transsexual, and many more, try broadening your view of other people.

I once had a friend jokingly tell me that he was a lesbian trapped in a male’s body without knowing that there are people out there that actually feel this way. Why not stay in the male body if you like females? Good question, some people are attracted to the same sex but don’t feel right as the gender of which they were born, this is a common occurrence in many places around the world. Some choose to think like that and some are forced to be that way like the Bacha Posh in the Middle East, these are girls that are born into families that don’t have sons so they treat and raise their daughter or daughters as sons in hopes of not being looked down upon in their cultures for not being able to procure a son.

The Hijra, they are men in India that feel like they are supposed to be women, they believe that inside they are women that by accident have as they put it, “that thing just dangling there” and it should be no longer. As part of their initiation into the sisterhood known as the Hijra, they must first have their penis and testicles removed by a member or members of the order to officially be able to be recognized as a woman. Most of the Hijra have to make the choice for themselves and their families banish them and no longer recognize them as members of the family. Why go through that and lose everything, they do it because it is what they believe, yes they might lose their families but they gain the love and respect of their fellow Hijra, people that believe as they believe, a sisterhood.

I hope that you, as I have, have learned something through this. I implore to do your own research into this topic, you will be surprised. As already stated, there aren’t just two genders; there are many other genders that real people associate themselves with. Male, female, transgender, gender neutral, transsexual, nonconforming, what are you?