Fascinating article on the continuum of gender fluidity … and how our attitudes and outlooks are shaped unconsciously through our cultural / societal upbringing.
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In India , the Shiva - Shakti combination of divine masculine and divine feminine aspects of each one of us recognizes that essential fluidity in gender norms and multiple deity identities … .
There is even a half - male/ half- female deity representation within Shiva , who is called “ Ardha- narishwara “ or half - female Embodied Deity of manifested consciousness .
In biology , this continuum of gender fluidity is reflected through our gender hormones and their properties right from conception . Each fetus received a first wash of estrogen . Before the male - defining washes of testosterone happens for a male fetus . And the female fetus receives more estrogen washes . But each fetus starts off as the one - who - will -become either male or female “ fetus to begin with . … starting with the essential female quality which can be added on to .
And we are all a dynamic balance of estrogen and testosterone in our biological gender identities … with varying proportions of the dynamic Shiva - Shakti attributes …
Interesting articles in the journal ! Thank you 
very much .