Yes, I’m saying it out loud and clear, STOP, GENDER REVEAL PARTIES. Because you don’t know the gender of your baby. You know the sex of your baby.
When you wish to reveal the ‘gender’ of the foetus, you’re actually talking about their sex which is an identity based upon their biological and physical attributes. So a ‘sex reveal party’ is what you’re aiming at, to reveal whether your baby’s a male, female or intersex.
Whereas Gender is a social construct. It is a much wider term which defines the roles, norms to abide by and relationships of a person. To simplify it, let’s take an example. Let’s say your sex is that of a female. And once you grow up your role, attitude, behaviour are that like of a woman, then you’re a cisgender woman. But if you identify as a man as per your gender but woman as your sex, you’re transgender. Once might also be queer, gender-fluid or non-binary.
I hope this clears up the confusion between sex and gender. And let me know, if you think Sex Reveal Parties should take over Gender reveal ones.
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