Ivan E Coyote No Biikini Summary

In my senior year of high school I was assigned to read "No Bikini" by Ivan E. Coyote in which Coyote writes about a time in which she changed her sex at the age of six. With such little of age, Coyote appeared in her swimming class as a little boy. What intrigued me the most was the line where she states, "It was easier not to be afraid of things, like diving boards and cannonballs... when nobody expected you to be afraid." So how does this relate to the definition of a man and a woman? In society we are taught that when one is born with XX chromosomes they're a girl, and when they have XY chromosome they are a boy. Certainly like Coyote there are many people who can relate to not fitting into their dominant genders and don't conform with