For example, in the article, "Believing is Seeing," Judith Lorber mentions how figure skater are restricted in their routines. In the early Olympics males were required to do three triple jumps, while females were only limited to one. "These men penalized artistic men skaters and athletic women skaters," just because of set guidelines based upon assumed abilities. Only the masculine mature males and the young prepubescent females were socially accepted in the sport. Women of older age and men of young age would be seen as odd competitors in this sport because of their biological differences. Lorber also tells of the social myth that men tend to be technically smarter than women. Her argument began with the early schooling of girls and boys, where boys would be more apt to take math courses in comparison to girls. She then mentions how social standards compete with biology in deciding on whether a man or women should drive the car. "Men drive cars whether they are good drivers or not because men and machines are a 'natural combination,' but the ability to drive gives one mobility; it is a form of social power.".

             At birth, sex is immediately chosen in the case of a hermaphrodite, being born with both male and female reproductive organs. Based on family values and other social factors, such as not wanting another child of the same sex, parents chose who they want their children to be and how they should grow up.

             A challenge to this chase is seen in Kessler's and McKenna's article, "Gender Construction in Everyday Life: Transexualism." Upon becoming the opposite sex is a venture of set gender standards that society produces. The authors tell of a story when a transsexual, male to female, makes a visit to the gynecologist. Not knowing that she was originally a male, he diagnosed her with having a cyst on her ovaries. Assuming that she was a female, he thought that the swelling on her abdominal walls would be a cyst.