Male/Female Roles | The Idea of Multiple Genders Must Be Accepted

According to Anne Fausto-Sterling in the following viewpoint, gender variations do not always fit into male and female categories. Despite society’s insistence on dichotomous gender rules, she maintains, many people such as homosexuals and intersexuals do not fit into those categories and suffer because of it. For example she contends that intersexuals, individuals who have both male and female sexual characteristics, are stigmatized because their sex organs cannot be labeled strictly male or female. Fausto-Sterling claims that as American society becomes more secular, the laws...

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