This week I listened to a TED talk about the blurring line of gender from a feminist historian and patient activist who works to defend people who have unusual gender types. She described that these can include "intersexed" people who may have been born a girl identified as a girl and then hit puberty, didn't start her period and had to get tests till the doctors identified that she had testes inside. Another example was about a boy who developed correctly along a male track untill puberty when he got sick and discovered he in fact had ovaries and a uterus and had been menstrating internally.
These examples along with other advancements in science that have illuminated that gender is not as dichotic and simple as we think. Now that we have all this information it is impossible for us to not acknowledge a address these blurring lines within a broader socio-cultural context. She introduced the concept that our American Revolution, the civil rights movement, and the women's rights movement are all based on the ideas that anatomical differences are so minuscule and far from enough to prevent a group of people from full rights in America. All these movements have successfully argued this point an earned their rights and now I think it is exactly this argument and an appeal to the freedoms instilled in our constitution that will lead the LGBT community to a successful acquisition of their rights.
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