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Surroundings also affect the way kids start to learn about gender/sexuality.
According to the article, development of gender identity by examining young
children's day to day play. It also mentions gender specific toys(Oswalt). This
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statement suggests that you should check up on your kids frequently. The checkups may benefit in teaching your child to use their own toys, as it says girls should
use barbies, kitchens etc. and boys should use cars, tool kits etc.. The childs
environment may also affect the way they view sexuality. For instance, grandma,
mom, and Aunt Nicole making thanksgiving dinner and repeatedly hears mom ask
dad to repair something(Oswalt). This is saying that the child's environment/home
is affecting the way they see sexuality because their parents are the ones who set
examples for a child and the way they start to learn more about it.
Although some people may think were born with sexuality others believe were
born with our sexuality. As the article states, children begin showing sexual
behaviors and interest in their sexual functioning starting in infancy(Oswalt). By
this, it can mean that sexuality would be something we develop sexuality as babies
because it saying that we start to know about it as infants.
People are also born with a specific sexual gene (homosexuality). Referring to
research Gay men have chromosomes that were stretched compared to straight
men also it states that most convincing studies have proved conclusively that
sexual orientation in men as a genetic cause(Abrams). What both of these
statements are saying is that we are born with our sexuality because sexuality is
something that can be told by observing our genes because they seem to appear
different than other straight people.
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