ABSTRACT
This chapter synthesises various perspectives, draws conclusions where possible and discusses ensuing research. It makes an attempt at bringing together the disparate collection of ideas, philosophies and academic epistemes into a coherent intersectional theory of gender, gender diversity and trans. The chapter also includes a discussion on the seeming intransigence of gender across time and cultures, the potential malleability of gender and the origins of desire and sexuality. It first considers a schema on the operation of gender in society. In any general theory of behaviour, the first point to note is that each of us is both enabled and limited by our unique physical and genetic embodiment. By gaining consciousness and language, humans are now in charge of the direction of the evolution of all life on Earth as well as the evolution of our social world. This can be extended to include other species, which would optimise our ecosystem.
