Delineating True Colors: Social Intervention on Gender Development
Gender has been socially constructed and continually reinforced for various generations, it
is merely because it has undergone cognitive and social processes which leads to a full
understanding of oneself.
According to Kimmel (2001), the process of learning gender roles and appropriate behaviors
begins at birth as a child who absorbs cues from their respective environment, particularly from
parents initially, and later from teachers and other children, indicating society’s expectations
relative to gender. Moreover, he defines gender socialization as socially constructed and therefore
learned through social teachings, modeling, and reinforcement.
Obviously, I was born male at birth. I grow up and taught by my parents to act and present
myself in a manly manner. They instructed me to wear blue and other masculine colors of clothes,
shorts, jeans, and slippers because wearing pink for them signifies femininity. Moreover, my father
and my uncles push me to play basketball with all the boys of my age back then. All of my childhood
