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Do We Have Enough Genders?

13/01/2016 GMT

The Inquiry: Do We Have Enough Genders?

BBC World Service - The Essential, The Inquiry: Do We Have Enough Genders?

Brin Bixby, who is bi-gender, says gender is a spectrum

Brin Bixby, who is bi-gender, says gender is a spectrum and that many people do not fit neatly into male or female categories.

Brin Bixby says gender is a spectrum and that many people do not fit neatly into male or female categories. In this excerpt from the Inquiry, she explains how she lives as both male and female but would prefer it if society was less focussed on binary genders.

(Photo:Transgender trans-sexual concept. Credit: Thinkstock by Getty Images)

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