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Adhering to the ascribed roles of society, humanity tends to protect, nurture, and propagate gender-based identities, believing them to be inherent and biological in their nature. However, all it takes is for one to raise the question, the question of how society ascribes certain roles to an individual. The answer to such a question unravels layers of the discursive phenomenon that collectively contribute towards the construction of such specific roles. Exploration of the social construction of gender not only enables us to decipher the founding constructs of society and the roles of their members, but it also allows us to deeply comprehend how such phenomenon influences a person’s behaviour, thinking patterns, or at large freedom of a person.
One can exemplify the outliers in a society’s natural assumptions about the roles of its members by taking an example of transgenders, as on a few occasions I have found myself in deep thought as to whether a transgender person was rebellious to society, or they were simply living as though their hearts desired.
Sex, being a biological distinction between a male and female in humans, as in the case of many other animals and plants as well, is inherently different…
