11.2 Variations In Sexual Behaviour Flashcards
The biological differences between males and females are ___ ____, where as the differences that result from people thinking about themselves as male or female are ____ ____.
sex differences : gender differences
____ ____ is how we identify sexually and what we call ourselves.
Gender identity
Gender identity is a ____ characteristic.
human
In most cases people accept the gender identity that matches their ____ ____, which matches the way they were reared.
external appearance
Some people are dissatisfied with their ____ ____, and many would describe themselves as being masculine in some ways and feminine and others.
assigned gender
Some people have anatomies intermediate between male and female. Individuals who appear to be a mixture of male and female are referred to as ____.
hermaphrodites
Some people are born with an XX chromosome pattern but an ___ ____ that translocated from the fathers Y chromosome on to another chromosome.
SRY gene
Despite the XX chromosomes, they have either an ovary and a testis, or two testes, or a ____ of testis and ovary tissue on each side.
mixture
Other people develop an intermediate appearance because of an ____ hormone pattern.
atypical
The most common cause of this condition is ____ ____ ____ (CAH), meaning overdevelopment of the adrenal glands from birth.
congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Ordinarily, the adrenal gland has a negative feedback relationship with the pituitary gland. The pituitary secretes ____ ____ (ACTH), which stimulates the adrenal gland.
adrenocorticotropic hormone
____, one of the hormones from the adrenal gland, feeds back to decrease the release of ACTH.
Cortisol
In a genetic male, the extra testosterone causes no apparent difficulty. However, genetic females with this condition develop various degrees of ____ of the external genitals.
masculinisation
People whose sexual development is intermediate are called ____. An estimated 1 child in 100 in the United States is born with some degree of genital ambiguity, and 1 in 2000 has enough ambiguity to make its male or female status uncertain.
intersexes
For many years, the policy was to raise most intersexed people as ____, on the assumption that surgery could make them look like normal girls, and they would develop behaviours corresponding to the way they were reared.
girls