When I came across the sex and gender part of the chapter, I started to think about some of my friends that are more nontraditional in their gender, being either making a transition from one gender binary to the other or becoming gender neutral. I really liked that Berger described gender as a social construct, because that is definitely accurate as I saw transgender people be treated like subhumans simply because they did not fit into the stereotypical mold of what a biologically male or a female person did or looked like (2011).
What I would like to bring up in this blog, however, is how to discuss gender in a way that is not simply boys versus girls. Gender is becoming more and more like a spectrum as opposed to polarized elements. With people falling in the middle of the spectrum and struggling with small things that the general populace does not think of like pronoun usage and bathroom regulations. I would like to bring gender discussions like this into my classroom when I become a high school teacher.
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