Instead of asking if the baby has all toes and is overall healthy, the mother wants to know the baby's sex right away. With this in mind, they raise them to behave as their gender should. This made me reflect on how much my culture and family have influenced my gender identity. I grew up wearing pink dresses and playing with Barbie dolls. But I would also move away from expected gender roles. For a long time, between the ages of five and ten, I ran around without a shirt. But then there came a point where my parents said I had to stop doing it because I'm a girl. Girls are expected to behave like civilized women. My father doesn't like it when I use bad words and tells me that women shouldn't swear. I questioned him asking why he can tell me how I should behave, but I can't really tell him how to behave? He was surprised by my argument and said I had made a valid point. I challenged the stereotypical views that men impose