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Is It a Boy or a Girl? On the surface, people tend to look at gender as a very defineable yes or no matter and fail to see the variations that exist. Underneath the surface there exists a minority group who experience gender dysphoria: unhappiness or discomfort experienced by one whose sexual organs do not match one's gender identity. So, unless there exists an absolute distinction between identifying male from female, then classifying a transgender …

…to help relieve the "dysphoria-based anxiety." Gender identity becomes based on a cultural identity where the individual strives to find a place in the world where these feelings of anxiety and dissatisfaction do not exist. As a society, blindly categorizing people as male or female unfairly discounts those who remain confused as to which category they belong to. So until people concede to a universal definition, gender identification remains definable by social and personal identity.