Growing Up In Western Cultures

Growing up in the United States I've learned that some Western cultures identify gender by sexual appendages. This is now known to no longer be true. Sexual orientation on a global scale has different outlooks. In Western Civilization when a person is confused about their sexual orientation, they switch to the other gender. For example, in the intersex video a child named MC was given the gender of female after being born intersex. While growing up MC was physically a girl, but showed characteristics of a male child. Saifa Wall who was also born unisex like MC, was given the gender of a female at birth. These people are unhappy because they were not given the choice to decide whether they were to be male or female. These labels that people decide to give themselves in the western civilization are attached with appendages. A person that is born intersex is called a Bredache in the Native American culture. A Bredache is a Two-spirited person. This means they could take on the role of being male, female, or bredache. Generalities in the Division of Labor by Gender, based on Data from 185 Societies, talk about how individuals pick their own gender during the Bow Ritual Ceremony. After a child has reached puberty they participate in the ceremony, which involves them either picking up a basket or a bow. If a boy were to pick up a basket instead of a bow during this ceremony, he would assume the identity of a two spirited person. The identity of the person in the Native American culture is decided by the individual; Not by random people
At birth when the sex is decided, it can usually cause uncertain thoughts on which sex the child is. Then based on how they, or society, perceives them is their sex. In the Native American culture when you are born intersex people accept you for who you are and how you act. Also your gender isn’t one or the other, it’s a unique sexuality