Jakarta –
Princess Nadya Hutagalung has again become a topic of conversation on social media because her choice is gender neutral. Her daughter also changed her name from Nyla to ‘Alex’.
Some admit that they are still confused about the meaning behind neutral gender and the difference from the gender that some people often admit.
“What’s the concept of gender neutral?” wrote one Twitter user.
Gender Neutral Meaning
Gender neutral is also known as non-binary. Regarding its definition, gender neutral refers to someone who does not identify himself as either male or female.
Gender is different from sex or sex. That is, someone with a certain gender can have the same gender identity as their gender.
However, in other conditions, the identified gender is different from the sex assigned at birth.
Rutgers CSE Officer Sanyulandy Leowalu, SKM, M Sexol some time ago said that generally a person’s gender identity is in line with the sex at birth, but not a few also decide to choose a gender different from their sex.
“Binary or non-binary is a person’s gender identity, meaning how a person feels about their own gender,” he explained.
That way, someone with a neutral gender identification will still have a ‘non-neutral’ gender, aka binary, namely male or female.
When talking about gender identity, this is closely related to the terms gender expression and sexual orientation. Some are known to range from androgynous to pansexual.
Some people may not be able to conceptualize their gender identity in binary terms. He also emphasized that non-binary is not the same as sexual orientation, because the two have different terminology.
“He (gender neutral) does not fall into a binary categorization, not exclusively masculine or feminine,” said Sanyu.
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