The book Communicating Gender Diversity talks about how an individual’s surroundings influence who a person becomes. From the time of birth, we are immediately influenced by society and assigned genders and gender roles. At birth they say boy or girl then they want to know what the mother wants to name he or she. Some people used to often assume that a name was assigned to a particular sex. Boys could be named Christopher or Billy, but it did not sound right for a girl to be named that. She had to be named something like Ashley or Christina or Jessica. Nowadays some name are unisex. A boy or a girl can be named Cassie, but is that due to the fact that society’s ideas have evolved or changed? After the name, if the woman has a girl she is dressed in pink or wrapped in a pink blanket. If it is a boy he is wrapped in blue. As the child grows up he or she is taught to play with certain toys, put on certain clothes and shoes, and act a certain way based on their sex. It is something that is ingrained and taught by society, parents, other children, and other people around which in turn directly and/or indirectly influences the decisions, choices, and paths a person might take or make in life. These people manipulate who they are and what they do throughout their whole life.
