I think after the debate there was certainly a hefty amount of information which I had to process many of which are correct and some which I disagree with. In terms of me, I believe I was born as a boy and had all of the genetics that made me a boy. For example there was a study done in UCLA showing how they studied mice embryos and how there are 54 differing because of gender. Other things such as testosterone and more play a role in making me a boy. Then from there I think it is how society looks and sees you. If you see a boy on the street you would talk to them differently if they were a girl. This relates to the bobo doll experiment and shows how when we are young we act like other people and learn and do things the same as they do. So overall I think the real driving force that starts this off is our genetic and then from there it is how society perceives us and how they treat us that makes us who we are.
Nature vs Nurture Gpers
After watching the video about how a boy turned into a girl it made me think a lot about my own gender identity
I think as I grew up and of course still am. My environment hasn’t really had that big of an impact on my gender as I feel like I have always been a boy. I have played with boys toys, I did lots of boy things and all of my friends were boys. When I was younger I would often copy a lot of the things my friends do and of course if all of my friends were boys then I would try to be more like them. So that was the only real impact of the environment for me although even still I feel like I have always been a boy.
I think My gender is very important to my identity because immediately when people see my they see that I am a boy and therefore when they meet me they hear everything I say through a filter and that filter being my physical gender. Of course as the person gets to know me they will understand more and more about who I am and how my mental gender may be different to my physical gender.
My gender has certainly shaped the way I think because I talk like all other guys and think about certain things like muscles and things just like they do. But in a way so do the rest of them, they are all trying to be like one another because in this day and age it is really easy just to fit in with everyone and it is much more difficult to be an outlier.
Nowadays there are many things making me look at my gender in a different way because people are now more open about their gender and there are so many different kinds gender that it has made me question myself. Although I don’t think my opinion on my gender has changed and it has stuck the same. Although if in the future I decide that I need to change my gender (which I most probably want to do) then I will because by that time it wont be a big problem to change your gender and how your world is changing.
So all in all when we look at the nature nurture debate. I believe that their is an element of nature and that when you are born you are either a boy or a girl. But then as you grow up and become more independent you realise that their are some aspects of you that were formed by what influences you.