May 25th- What Defines Gender?

 Yesterday evening I was watching a news program that really impressed me one minute and then ticked me off the next. It impressed me when they were speaking of two parents that had a child at home and refused to label that child as boy or girl. That in itself caught my attention, but the parent's words was what really made stand up and clap because for once somebody out there is stepping up and speaking out against societies labeling of children. They said, "We chose not to say whether our child was a boy or girl in order to leave that option up to our child to decide what he/she decides to be know as. Gender is NOT defined by what is between the legs." I couldn't have said that better myself. 

  However, in the next moment a child psychologist was speaking against these parents doing this. The doctor's words were, "To not have a label on a child would bring serious mental insecurities to that child." Don't you think it will be more harmful to label a child one gender based on body and have that child grow up feeling like the other gender? I believe that it is much harder to deal with people calling you male or female and having to be male or female even knowing you or not. Then, I seriously had to curse the news reporter out when she agreed with the doctor and added that, "Not labeling a child will cause severe trouble with society as well." Why? Because that is how our society works. They feel a need to label someone by what they see instead of just going with what the person they see feels they are. Without that, they feel insecure with themselves if anything that is outside of their "normal" way of living. I am sick of the way society is! I would fight and die for what those parents believe, but I know it would be useless if I were to do so alone.

  Strength and courage is not judged by how many battles you fight, but rather it is in knowing when to fight and when to back away from a wasted effort. I know it would be a wasted effort if I fought alone, but damn it, who is sick and tired of the way society treats enough to do something about it besides just holding peaceful demonstrations? Who out there is willing just as much as I am to bring fear to them that mock us? Who is willing to finally break free and say, "Enough is enough!"? We won't accomplish anything being passive. It is time for aggression to finally have its time! Until I can gather enough people, I will wait and bide my time.