#thisisneat

In dominant discourse, sex, a biological category, is conflated with gender, the social category of identity exhibited through appearance, mannerisms, dress, and so on. Failure to differentiate between sex and gender exists even when people recognize that the masculine and feminine characteristics assigned to each gender are social constructs that differ across cultures and time periods. Individually or as a group, transpersons expose the workings of this gender system, revealing that the binary is neither natural nor invariant and that male and female are not mutually exclusive categories.