Gender Identity and Life Roles Assessment

9 Question Gender Identity and Life Roles
The film of my choice is Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric. I chose this film because this is a very recent period, and I was interested in seeing how gender roles have changed in the United States. This contemporary piece of media, released in 2016, will give me more recent ideas about how such things are viewed today.
From the chosen film, I learned that the most recent change in gender identity and roles is the acceptance of transgender people. This has created a stronger push to separate the gender binary of “man” and “woman,” as there is debate over where these people should fit in socially. American culture is still between two extremes: one group that wishes to keep things strictly with two genders and another that that wants more than two options on their identification cards.
There is a significant divide in the U.S. as to how people view gender and identity. The question of transgender people is still under debate, along with a push to keep the two sexes separated. I believe that people are becoming more accepting of transgender individuals due to the recent change in how they think gender roles should function in society. Still, it may take longer until they entirely accept these individuals into the gender binary. I believe the present is a time of resistance between these two extremes, as some attempt to keep things strictly what they have historically been. In contrast, others want things to be more similar to today’s current views on gender roles, such as “gender fluidity.”
In conclusion, I believe that the acceptance of transgender individuals has brought about a stronger push to separate these two categories of “man” and “woman.” However, there is still a long way to go before people truly accept the fluidity of gender.

References
Gender Revolution: A Journey with Katie Couric