Gender As A Socially Constructed Accomplishment1

Elliott Yousefzadeh Sociology 1 Essay 3 Gender As A Socially Constructed Accomplishment Gender is a very strange topic in today’s society. Many people don’t know what to do with people who are transvestites or transsexuals and they often times hate them because they are different. People always think that there can only be two types of gender: masculine and feminine. People also feel that these genders most always correspond to a person’s sex. So …

…Page 461) People in the United States often show much hatred towards transsexuals and transvestites because they are NOT socially accepted. “Modern Western societies’ transsexuals and transvestites are the nearest equivalent of these crossover genders, but they are not institutionalized as third genders (Bolin 1987).” (Lorber, Night To His Day: The Social Construction of Gender, Page 461) In conclusion, we must always try to understand a person’s feelings about how they wish to be a different gender.