Is Gender Dead?
At the end of their article, Dembroff asks, “Are we nearing the end of gender as we know it?”, and I feel that the answer is both yes and no. The way people view gender in American society has changed a lot in the past few years, and I see this evidenced in my own views of gender, which have evolved dramatically over my time in high school. In middle school, I had no idea there existed genders outside of male and female, and now here I am identifying as nonbinary. Before going further, I think it is important to acknowledge that Dembroff’s question has to be analyzed within the context of American society. If we try to apply what they are saying to the broader world, we run into issues, because the way people in America view gender both now and historically cannot be applied globally. Many indigenous cultures pre-colonization had different perceptions of gender that were not inherently oppressive, and for some cultures reclaiming these views of gender may be more impactful than tr...