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Gender Bending

Mark Mizrahi Season 2 Episode 2

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Live a little, Bend a Little

In which we have our gender reveal party

Gender: what is it? Not your biological sex. It is the sociatel and cultutral expectations placed on us by the places and people we live in. 

In terms of biology, some scientists think it might be traced to the syncopated pacing of fetal development. “Sexual differentiation of the genitals takes place in the first two months of pregnancy,” wrote Dick Swaab, a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, “and sexual differentiation of the brain starts during the second half of pregnancy.” Genitals and brains are thus subjected to different environments of “hormones, nutrients, medication, and other chemical substances,” several weeks apart in the womb, that affect sexual differentiation.