Essay On Gender Ambiguity

It was my one of my senior years of college and I was signed up for a creative writing class. It was a small class with about twelve students. Our professor was an old man who had written a couple short stories published in several anthologies. The class was like any other writing class; we would read some short stories then write our own. There was a young man in the class that would always write these dark stories about how what is was like to have something inside of you that was completely different from how the world saw them. As the winter grew closer and the leaves begin to turn, that young man’s jackets became bigger and thicker. None of us in the class paid much attention to it. It was getting cold outside, why would we notice. Then …show more content…
Sex is biological, gender is cultural. For some of the world there are two genders as well as two sexes, but gender ambiguity, transgendered, the third sex flies in the face of the notion that the former is true. “The terms third gender and third sex describe individuals who are categorized as neither man nor woman who recognize three or more genders. To different cultures or individuals, a third gender or six may represent an intermediate state between men and women, a state of being …show more content…
Violence against them, especially the sex workers is often brutal and occurs in public places. As it is with other transgendered communities around the world this group of people face discrimination in housing, health, education, employment, immigration and law. The Two Spirit people faced a similar fate when the homophobic European culture was introduced to them. Before this moment Two Spirit people were respected and revered. Usually they served as the spiritual leaders. Spiritually speaking for most Native American cultures believed that the spirit is the most important part of the human experience; meaning that more than the biological differences, the physical appearance, the spirit is the true nature of a