Our post last week covered the biological basis for gender, but as we know, biology is only one small part of human identity. The psychological and social factors that mold your internal sense of gender most likely have a much greater impact on how you construct your life. And all of these biopsychosocial factors are deeply intertwined. Your biology informs how society perceives you from the moment you’re born and the doctors slap you with a gendered label (or even before as many parents opt to learn the gender before birth). The subtle (or not so subtle in some cases)…
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