• Question: is gender fluid a valid identity?

    Asked by xX_OldManVeganGains_Xx to John, Laura, Luke, Rob, Ruth on 16 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Laura Finney

      Laura Finney answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      I think that anybody can be what they want to be and if someone wants to be gender fluid then it is valid. I don’t think anyone is in a position to say what is valid and what isn’t – it is all opinion based and so who says that your opinion is even valid?! I say be who/whatever you want to be and you should be able to do it without being judged.
      I don’t think we need labels to define who we are, and many people do not think they fit with many of the labels anyway.

    • Photo: Ruth Patchett

      Ruth Patchett answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      Being gender fluid is something that is hard to scientifically identify. I have never felt uncomfortable with my gender or talked to someone who does so don’t feel like I know enough to say however I think people should be allowed to live their lives how they want to as long as they don’t harm others. Did you see the Louis Theroux documentary about transgender kids? I think it might be on Netflix.

    • Photo: John Fossey

      John Fossey answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      Gender identity is up to the individual

      Be what you like and respect the freedom of others to do the same.

    • Photo: Luke Williams

      Luke Williams answered on 16 Jun 2016:

      All good answers.

      To be perfectly honest gender fluidity is something that I don’t understand really. Whether I understand it though, is entirely irrelevant.

      Be whoever you want to be. At the end of the day we are all stardust. I can’t find the quote I was thinking of, but this one will do:

      “The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements – the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution – weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. The stars died so that you could be here today.”

      ― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

      Put like that, who someone is – why does that matter to anyone else? Be who you want to be.

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