A Fusion Massive Millennial poll of 1,000 young people found that half had a fluid idea of gender, believing it fell somewhere on a spectrum and wasn't confined to male or female.
It's essential that young people of both genders believe this too, because we can't create an ultimately fair and equal society without them.
Bahram Bekradnia, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI), whose 2009 report is still the best commentary on the gender divide, believes addressing gender in widening participation programmes is "spot on".
U.N. Women, a United Nations entity established in 2010 to advocate for global gender equality, believes that achieving gender equality would have "enormous socio-economic ramifications".
Malpas, who recently gave a Ted Talk on the "gift of gender authenticity," believes that parents also go through their own transition when they learn to raise their gender expansive or trans children.
Meaning, we are either the only gender that believes we need help when it comes to forming loving relationships, or we are the only gender that knows how to read.
A choke in any gender, she believes, is a choke.
UNICEF recognizes the human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination as central to the consideration of gender equality and believes that gender-based discrimination is one of the most ubiquitous forms of discrimination that children face.
According to its organizers, "any person, regardless of gender or gender identity, who believes women's rights are human rights" is welcome to attend.
Meanwhile, social constructivists have tended to talk about spectra of gender identities, believing that cultural variation leads to variations in gender identities.
