Rethinking Gender

<b>A lively informative and engaging guide to gender by an author-illustrator who helps readers understand the multiplicity of answers to &#147;What even is gender?&#148;</b><br><br>Queer cisgender transgender nonbinary androgynous maverique intergender genderfluid. Louie and their cat (a.k.a. &#147;Cat&#148;) take you on a journey through the world of gender&#151;without claiming to have it all figured out or knowing the perfect definition for this widely complex subject. Gender is tricky to understand because it&#146;s a social construct intersecting with many other parts of our identity including class race age religion. For a long time people thought of gender as binary: male/female pirate/princess sports/shopping. Now we&#146;re starting to understand it&#146;s not that simple. That&#146;s what this book is about: figuring out what gender means one human being at a time and giving us new ways to let the world know who we are.<br><br>Boy girl either/or neither/nor everything in between: gender is a spectrum and it&#146;s hard to know where you fit especially when your position isn&#146;t necessarily fixed&#151;and the spectrum keeps expanding. That&#146;s where <i>Rethinking Gender</i> can help: it gives you a toolbox for empathy understanding and self-exploration. Louie&#146;s journey includes a deep dive into the historical context of LGBTQIA+ rights activism and the evolution of gender discourse politics and laws&#151;but it also explores these ideas through the diversity of expressions and experiences of people today.<br><br>In <i>Rethinking Gender </i>Louie offers a real-world take on what it means to be yourself see yourself and see someone else for who they are too.<br>&#160;<br><u>Questions explored in <i>Rethinking Gender</i> include:</u><br>&#160;<br><li>What is cisgender? Dysphoria? Non-binary? Intersex? Intersectionality?</li><li>Are sex and gender biological? Cultural? Social? Personal?</li><li>What do race religion age and education have to do with it?</li><li>How do we recognize stereotypes and what can we do about them?</li><li>Do physical characteristics determine sex and if not what does?</li><li>How common is it not to fit in the box checked M or F?</li><li>When is surgery or medical intervention called for and who gets to decide?</li><li>How have ideas about gender changed over time?</li><li>What is gender identity how do we know ours and how do we talk to someone whose gender is different from our own?</li>