Chapter 10 - Gender Identity

Question 1

What is Gender Identity?

Answer 1

Gender identity is how you in your head think about yourself , it is the chemistry that composes you (eg hormonal levels) and how you interpret what that means.

Question 2

What is gender expression ?

Answer 2

Gender expression is how you demonstrate your gender (based on traditional gender roles) through the ways you act , dress, behave and interact.

Question 3

Define biological sex

Answer 3

Biological sex refers to the objectively measurable organs, hormones, chromosomes, Female = vagina ovaries, XX chromosomes; male =penis, testes, XY chromosomes, intersex = a combination of the two.

Question 4

What is sexual orientation?

Answer 4

Sexual orientation is who you are physically, spiritually and emotionally attracted to, based on their sex gender in relation to your own

Question 5

what is nongendered?

Answer 5

Woman-ness

Man-ness

Question 6

What is agender?

Answer 6

masculine

Feminine

Question 7

What is asex?

Answer 7

Female-ness

male-ness