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:
Hi Amod, thank you for reading and commenting. It's wonderful that the binary box of gender has been broken. Of course, there is still a lot of work to do in this area until all people are free to be who they are without negative ramifications. Thanks for sharing your essay. I will check it out. Take good care and thanks for being here (wherever that is!). Peace.
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.
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/
Hi Amod, thank you for reading and commenting. It's wonderful that the binary box of gender has been broken. Of course, there is still a lot of work to do in this area until all people are free to be who they are without negative ramifications. Thanks for sharing your essay. I will check it out. Take good care and thanks for being here (wherever that is!). Peace.
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.
Amen!