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Amod Sandhya Lele's avatar

I appreciate this. Being raised a boy in the old days, I think there was an at least as much shame around being a sissy - or still more pejorative words that indicated you were (heaven forbid!) gay.

It's been a delight to me that the identity of "gender-fluid" has now come available: I can say that I'm a girl some of the time and a boy other times, and have this be accepted. I've written a little bit about the ways I think Buddhism has more room to be open to this than several other wisdom traditions:

https://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2022/10/two-south-asian-approaches-to-gender-ethics/

https://loveofallwisdom.com/blog/2021/09/on-traditional-wisdom-and-qualitative-individualism/

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Barry Baz Morris's avatar

My humble opinion: we’re all somewhere on the spectrum of gender fluidity and those that insist on a binary classification as the only option have been overtaken by the internal fears of their conditioning.

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