As long as most trans people can remember, we have been haunted by a gender disposition whic was in congruent with our anatomy and the social demands that this put on us. Many of us have felt this way before we were old enough to be sent off to that boot camp for gender conformity called school, where our first lesson was to get in line. By the time we got to college, however, we might have been taught that gender was only a social construct after all, and wondered why it should have caused such turmoil in our lives. So what is gender anyway?
To the linguist all this sounds very familiar. The pharaoh Psammetichus isolated two children to see which word would first come out of their mouths. It sounded like something in Phrygian, so he thought Phrygian must be the natural language of the human race, and Egyptian an acquired second language. By the 1950s behaviorists were sure all language behavior was acquired, by stimulus and response. Then, observing the extraordinary complexity of language that baffles even professional linguists, and comparing it with the consummate ease with which small children can (unconsciously) parse a sentence before they can tie their shoes, Noam Chomsky hypothesized an innate Language Acquisition Device that enabled toddlers to pick up words as pigeons do peas, words that are clearly socially constructed. Language is thus similar to bipedal gait, where the child develops an innate capacity for walking, but still has to “learn” to walk in a world weighed down by gravity.
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