gender identity

I know for a fact that I will be doubling my order of Thin Mints this year in support of a national organization that welcomes, supports, and empowers all girls.

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Whether we're talking about someone we want to have sex with, someone we want to call a boyfriend/girlfriend -- or both -- the key is to be true to yourself and about yourself.

Our culture struggles with the notion of how gender ought to manifest -- that there are fixed recognizable differences in the look and function of sex organs, presence of hormones and type of chromosomes that generate two distinct and bounded categories: male and female. And therefore man and woman. But actually, there aren’t.