I’m Trying to Dismantle Gender Roles, But Society Keeps Getting in the Way
4 min readJul 16, 2018
“Lupin’s a boy dog, right?” my 3-year-old Tzivia asks me, about our fluffy rescue mutt. “Are there girl dogs?”
I stifle a laugh and give her the sex vs. gender talk again:
“We know dogs’ sexes, but not their genders, because dogs don’t care about gender. Remember how for humans, parents guess gender based on the…
