{"id":1679,"date":"2020-04-27T01:08:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T01:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soginursing.ca\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2021-03-27T01:12:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T01:12:03","slug":"the-xx-xy-lie-our-social-construction-of-a-sex-and-gender-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soginursing.ca\/index.php\/2020\/04\/27\/the-xx-xy-lie-our-social-construction-of-a-sex-and-gender-binary\/","title":{"rendered":"The XX &#038; XY Lie: Our Social Construction of a Sex and Gender Binary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e2e2e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\">@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-title.fusion-title-1{margin-top:10px!important; 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color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">When a scientific system misses millions of people, is the problem with the people who don\u2019t fit or the system itself?<\/h2>\n<p id=\"2f51\" class=\"ir is fo it b gm iu iv iw gp ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm dg gk\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\"><em class=\"jn\">For additional perspectives on trans identities, trans bodies, and the intersection of trans identities and white colonialism, I recommend <\/em><a class=\"dm ii\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lwcvhh4pLjE\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em class=\"jn\">Tiq Milan<\/em><\/a><em class=\"jn\"> (<\/em><a class=\"dm ii\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=J91z5NKFOzk\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em class=\"jn\">here as well<\/em><\/a><em class=\"jn\">), <\/em><a class=\"dm ii\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j7Gh2n9kPuA\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em class=\"jn\">Alok Vaid-Menon<\/em><\/a><em class=\"jn\">, <\/em><a class=\"dm ii\" href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/the-cake\/poet-duo-darkmatter-on-how-transmisogyny-is-the-afterlife-of-colonialism-and-more-d8997df8e2b5\" rel=\"noopener\"><em class=\"jn\">DarkMatter<\/em><\/a><em class=\"jn\">, <\/em><a class=\"dm ii\" href=\"https:\/\/www.xojane.com\/issues\/im-a-transwoman-who-never-felt-trapped-in-the-wrong-body\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em class=\"jn\">Kai Cheng Thom<\/em><\/a><em class=\"jn\">, <\/em><a class=\"dm ii\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nativepeoples.com\/Native-Peoples\/May-June-2014\/Two-Spirit-The-Story-of-a-Movement-Unfolds\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em class=\"jn\">Zachary Pullin (Chippewa Cree)<\/em><\/a><em class=\"jn\">, <\/em><a class=\"dm ii\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macleans.ca\/opinion\/the-power-and-the-violence-of-being-an-indigenous-trans-woman\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em class=\"jn\">Gwen Benaway<\/em><\/a><em class=\"jn\"> and <\/em><a class=\"dm ii\" href=\"http:\/\/guides.library.utoronto.ca\/2spirit\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><em class=\"jn\">more indigenous authors and organizations listed here<\/em><\/a><em class=\"jn\">. I am writing this article from the perspective of a white trans woman because it\u2019s informed by my own experience of intersectional race and gender.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"9e57\" class=\"ir is fo it b gm iu iv iw gp ix iy iz ja jb jc jd je jf jg jh ji jj jk jl jm dg gk\" data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">I\u2019m a transgender woman. Like m<span id=\"rmm\">a<\/span>ny trans people I know, I\u2019ve spent a lot of time in my life hearing from friends, family, and strangers on the internet about how my gender is \u201cmade up\u201d.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@QSE\/the-xx-xy-lie-our-social-construction-of-a-sex-and-gender-binary-4eed1e60e615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[47,37],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The XX &amp; 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