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lol, all this stuff about gender identity today.
I thought I was a girl when I was a little boy
blaugh I played with barbies and polly-pockets and I even stole my mom's dolls dresses now and then.
There was absoloutley no influnence on me as to that behavior, no older sisters dressing me up, no effeminate father (ANYTHING but effeminate really) No obsessive mother.
And today, I am completely satisfied with being male, and am more comfortable with being one than I can ever honestly imagine being female.
They have done studies on children raised to be the opposite gender, they more often than not desire to be the gender they originally were, gender identity is definitely made up by the person, not the environment.
You can give a girl all the toy trucks you want, don't mean she'll play with them.
(I realized after my post how much this forum is talking about gender lol)
My sister joined the debate with my friend and mentioned a bunch of stuff from her sociology class she just had this semester.
Apparently being born female is one thing, but being taught how to be female is another thing. If a baby girl is always around a mother who wears perfume, the daughter is going to learn that females should smell pretty. If she always put an effort into doing her hair and make up, the child is going to learn that females should look pretty. The same goes for what they wear and what they play with.
That's gender role, not identity. And even then it's a bit more complicated than that; some children embrace the examples they see, others rebel against them and do things differently.
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Essentially she said that a female child will probably recognize that they are a female,
This part touches on gender identity. Most female children will identify as females, but there's a few - estimates vary on how many - that don't. And there's no conclusive evidence as to what causes this, though what little has been found suggests a link to in-utero development. Something that happens before the child is born.