Gender Identity Conflict
In the story "X: A Fabulous Child's
Story," a child is raised as an X.
An X is a child who is assigned to a neutral gender by its parents and scientists. The parents of X raise the child to both girl and boy standards. This, however, is just a story. Raising a child with an assigned gender is impossible. Many factors go into the development of gender and gender identity.
Theorists state that the issue of gender identity is based on the society where the child grows.
Others believe that gender identity is based on the physical traits of the individual. Another aspect of attempting to raise a child without a specific gender is the fact of isolation. An individual would be isolated by the society because they do not fit the social norms in the society.
First, we have to define gender identity. "Richard Ashmore defines gender identity as the structured set of gendered personal identities that results when the individual takes the social construction of gender and the biological facts' of sex and incorporates them into an overall self-concept'
(512)"(Frable par 7). Lawrenece
Kohlberg defines gender identity as the "cognitive self-categorization as boy' or girl'"(Frable par 5).
This means that the individual will form a gender from their understanding of those ideas, sex and social construction of gender.
A child will then form a gender after recognizing other peoples gender in their surroundings, and gender continues over time and does not change by wishes and is permanent (Frable par 5). Once a child chooses a gender then they imitate a model of the same gender to get a grasp of attributions of stereotypes to male and female figures, to measure of gender schematic processing, attitudes toward boys and girls, and gender discrimination in reward allocation
(Frable par 6).
Researchers say that the gender differences between males and females is because of some physical aspect. These aspects range from
Story," a child is raised as an X.
An X is a child who is assigned to a neutral gender by its parents and scientists. The parents of X raise the child to both girl and boy standards. This, however, is just a story. Raising a child with an assigned gender is impossible. Many factors go into the development of gender and gender identity.
Theorists state that the issue of gender identity is based on the society where the child grows.
Others believe that gender identity is based on the physical traits of the individual. Another aspect of attempting to raise a child without a specific gender is the fact of isolation. An individual would be isolated by the society because they do not fit the social norms in the society.
First, we have to define gender identity. "Richard Ashmore defines gender identity as the structured set of gendered personal identities that results when the individual takes the social construction of gender and the biological facts' of sex and incorporates them into an overall self-concept'
(512)"(Frable par 7). Lawrenece
Kohlberg defines gender identity as the "cognitive self-categorization as boy' or girl'"(Frable par 5).
This means that the individual will form a gender from their understanding of those ideas, sex and social construction of gender.
A child will then form a gender after recognizing other peoples gender in their surroundings, and gender continues over time and does not change by wishes and is permanent (Frable par 5). Once a child chooses a gender then they imitate a model of the same gender to get a grasp of attributions of stereotypes to male and female figures, to measure of gender schematic processing, attitudes toward boys and girls, and gender discrimination in reward allocation
(Frable par 6).
Researchers say that the gender differences between males and females is because of some physical aspect. These aspects range from