The Indie Rock Musician Anthony Hegarty Has Always Identified as Transgendered

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The indie rock musician Anthony Hegarty has always identified as transgendered and has been a cross-dressing performance artist but has never taken medical steps to change his sex. During one tour, he performed a live cover of "Crazy in Love," originally by the pop superstar Beyoncé. At the end of one performance of the song, he laughed and said, "Who says I'm not a teenage girl." While he might have been joking, his words suggest that:

• A) primary sex characteristics always have a stranglehold on our gender identities, determining how we will be classified and how we classify ourselves.
• B) gender is biological in origin.
• C) although gender is socially constructed, our gender identities are, by our teen years, almost set in stone.
• D) society develops the gender roles that will be most useful in maintaining equilibrium.
• E) some individuals' sense of self and gender identity differ from their physical sex.

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