Gender Identity And Feminism Essay

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Gender
What is gender? People are born in two ways physically, but mentally they can have different thoughts about their gender. Cissexual, or Cisgender, is for the people whose gender identity matches the sex character given by birth. Most people are Cissexuals. At the opposite, those who have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from their assigned sex are called transgenders. For the relation between gender identity and feminism, I’d like to say, thanks to feminism, people’s understanding of gender actually was promoted by it to some degree. There were some misunderstandings about gender before. In the past, “gender” was understood more as a cultural or social system, which actually can be neither reduced to nor deduced …show more content…

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