The beginning of an essay perhaps?

**to come back to later in life (when i have more time)**

The article, Gender bending: let me count the ways (and its comments) inspired the following (beginning of an essay, perhaps?):


**NOTE: In this post, I discuss exclusively GENDER, not one's physical sex or genetalia.

Although I found this article highly informative and am glad to be (somewhat) caught up on the happenings in Australia, I think there is one critical foundation one needs to understand before jumping into the complexities of labeling gender.

The way humans process information, and the world around us, is to try to make order out of chaos. Basically, to make sense of everything, we break things down and categorize them. However, not all things are able to be separated, labeled and placed neatly in their categorical box. The best example of this is probably the color spectrum. Although the color spectrum is often simplified to separate color categories, within each category is another spectrum. Humans can work until the end of time trying to give a label or name to each slice of the spectrum, but within each slice is another spectrum of color. Just because we cannot see with our limited eyesight the differences in each spectrum of color does not mean the spectrum itself doesn't exist.

Another example of human-created category is gender. Gender is a spectrum, and in the simplification of this spectrum (male and female), it seems humans often forget or cannot see the rest of the spectrum. Just as the simplifying of the color spectrum leaves out a vast amount of color, so too does the simplifying of gender.