I’m also old, and often confused, but less about this one, because of personal experience.
The world is shifting quickly away from “almost everyone adheres to gender norms” to “what’s wrong with people being perceived the way they’d like to be?”
It’s about individual expression of self. The bits and bobs that people have under their clothes may have zero correlation with what their traditionally recognized appearance is.
If someone is lost or a threat, it makes more sense to look for them based on how they present themselves in public, and not how they look naked. (Which can be ambiguous, too.)
Your recognizing your own confusion is a good thing. It means that you are aware that there are still things you need to learn. You’re all right.
I’m also old, and often confused, but less about this one, because of personal experience.
The world is shifting quickly away from “almost everyone adheres to gender norms” to “what’s wrong with people being perceived the way they’d like to be?”
It’s about individual expression of self. The bits and bobs that people have under their clothes may have zero correlation with what their traditionally recognized appearance is.
If someone is lost or a threat, it makes more sense to look for them based on how they present themselves in public, and not how they look naked. (Which can be ambiguous, too.)
Your recognizing your own confusion is a good thing. It means that you are aware that there are still things you need to learn. You’re all right.