How do we change gender?

It’s difficult to predict how the system of gender will change in the future. “Doing gender” isn’t the same now as it has been in the past. While the process seems slow, it continues to move forward. It seems as if the only way to drastically change the gender system is to get rid of it, although that would be impossible. I suppose if there was a way to send new born babies to some island with some mechanism for helping them survive without associating any types of gender, then we would adequately see what the situation would become.

I find it interesting that in many science fiction movies, people are all wearing the same things and everyone looks androgynous. Perhaps there will be a time when humans get so advanced, that historic social structures will seem silly?

In the meantime, it seems that our best hope is to try to change the idea of gender and its roles. We have come so far to disassociate gender with sex and I think that is a great step forward. However, people have theorized about the difference for decades now, and word doesn’t seem to bet getting out there. The first time I heard about gender being a social construction was in my junior level classes in college. It seems that the best way to change a society is to start with the youth. Teach them the differences between sex and gender before they are too obstructed by the rules of society. I think many young people are open to the idea of homosexual relationships becoming more normal. More open-mindedness and acceptance should lead to more ideas and less distractions from the archaic social constructions that have been holding people back for centuries.