My Holding of Gender

Consciousness is without gender.  

When we strip away the meaning making and assessment of experience, when we remove all the filters of “How am I being seen?” and attachments to identity (“I’m this kind of person.  I fulfill this role and do these things in the world.”) then what’s left? 

The pure presence of consciousness peering out of this human meat suit has no concern for gender or any other identity (feminist, queer, POC, trans,  American, Republican).  No care at all.  Those are all constructs of culture, ego, relational dynamic, or geographical border. 

Do people in those identities have vastly different life experiences that have informed them? Yes!  Absolutely.  All that very real material of circumstance and personality can be carefully and consciously identified and is still different from the present and equanimous essence of consciousness.

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