Before we are born our identity is chosen by the test that our doctor runs where our genetic makeup is seen to see if we are a girl or boy, which later everyone in our lives will identify us and pick out boy clothes or girls clothes. But as we grow older, we get to have our own say and have our own personalities and we notice what we would like to be identified by. I feel like our society has built these identities and has built up boundaries where boys should like dark colors and like certain things and girls should wear makeup and become stay-at-home wives. But with time we get to notice that there have been movements and changes that people want within our society. People are now asked what they go by so they would feel more comfortable and not identified by their looks. I feel like this has always been something that is considered to be normal when our parents decide what we are from how we look and they play a role in telling us and giving us the things that our gender should do and not do.


Hi Valeria,
I agree with you, this was well said! Our identity is chosen by our parents from birth, however as we grow older we refer to someone by their pronounce. I would like to add that society shaped our identity by the way we act or dress a certain way. Such as getting influenced by a celebrity on social media. Our identity says a lot about who we are.