Chapter 3 Theories Flashcards
Transgender individuals
Gender identity is inconsistent with their reproductive organs
Gender attitudes
Beliefs about the appropriate traits, interests, behaviors, and roles of females and males
Sexual orientation
Preference for same or other genres sexual partner
Androgens
Male sex hormone
Estrogen
Female sex hormone but is also produced in males too
Testosterone
An androgen a male hormone
Intersexuality
The intermingling of female and male sexual characteristics - 2 out of 100 is Intersex
Müllerian ducts
Foundation for female structures
Wolffian ducts
The basis for male internal reproductive structures
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Causes a genetic female fetus to produce a Huge amount of testosterone - they can have children and when they are younger they tend to like boys toys more and they may have to take medicine to lessen this
Androgen insensitivity syndrome
Genetic male but the body cannot make use of androgen and they are typically raise female and basically they have no internal productive organs
5 Alpha reductase deficiency
Genetic condition - and they are born with female looking gentian but everything else male - they grow a penis at puberty and so they typically identify as a girl but is accepting in the Dominician Republic where this is common
Turner syndrome
A condition in which the individual has a single x-chromosome rather than a pair of sex chromosome and because of this they can’t develop testes or ovaries
Sex chromosomes
23 pairs of chromosomes - XY (male) XX (female)
Gender identity
One’s self definition as female or male
