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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Anthony Hegarty's comment suggests that his gender identity does not align with his assigned sex at birth, indicating that some individuals' sense of self and gender identity differ from their physical sex. This supports the idea that gender is not solely determined by biology but is also socially constructed and personal.

The Indie Rock Musician Anthony Hegarty Has Always Identified as Transgendered