National Geographic asks kids around the world about gender
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National Geographic has long traveled the world to give us a look at things we may never see otherwise. Their issue on gender is one that not only takes us far afield, but forces us to look deep inside ourselves to reflect on what gender means on a most personal level and through the most innocent of eyes: that of children.
In a story from our issue, Robin Marantz Henig writes that we are surrounded by “evolving notions about what it means to be a woman or a man and the meanings of transgender, cisgender, gender nonconforming, genderqueer, agender, or any of the more than 50 terms Facebook offers users for their profiles. At the same time, scientists are uncovering new complexities in the biological understanding of sex. Many of us learned in high school biology that sex chromosomes determine a baby’s sex, full stop: XX means it’s a girl; XY means it’s a boy. But on occasion, XX and XY don’t tell the whole story.
As becomes obvious by the end of the video, gender is only a small part of their stories. So, does it really need to be a stumbling block to their dreams?
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