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Is gender over?

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Is gender on the way out? Here in Canada, if you go back 100 years, whether you were categorized male or female totally determined how you could dress, what kind of job/career you could have, who you could marry (other gender only), whether you could have children (one parent of each gender needed), and a whole lot of people's expectations of you. And a lot of this was enshrined in law and/or near-universal social standards.

Today the law is opposed to distinctions between men and women, other gender possibilities are recognized, and the social standards are much looser. A prof of mine was claiming that in another 20 years what gender you are will be no more significant than what colour eyes you have. Some people will still prefer blue eyes or brown eyes (or green or hazel) and some have eclectic tastes, but it won't limit or shape your life choices in any way. What do you think?

This is one of my questions in my field of research, so reading your answers counts as studying, so give me lots of answers!! :)
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Highonheels · 51-55, M
Dear cinnamon I think that the clothes a person wears should be a matter of personal choice not so much based on societies demands I agree to an extent that gender in this day and age is considered more or less a personal decision based on how one defines oneself and as you have commented before that your sex is biological and to a point I somewhat agree with you but technically sex and gender is one in the same but these days gender is defined as how you feel but a man who surgically becomes a women is technically still a man biologically