Gender

Question 1

What are the 7 criteria to establish sexual identification (Money 1963)?

Answer 1

• chromosomal sex
• gonadal sex
• hormonal function
• internal genital morphology
• external genital morphology
• assigned sex (at birth)
• gender identity and role differentiation

Question 2

Define gender identity

Answer 2

The psychological send of fitting into social gender categories

Question 3

Define gender role

Answer 3

The expression of gender identity by social constructs of dress, mannerism and behaviours

Question 4

Define cis gender

Answer 4

Gender identity is consistent with assigned sex at birth

Question 5

Define gender dysphoria

Answer 5

Unease arising from incongruence experienced socially and with physical characteristics

Question 6

Define intersex

Answer 6

An individual is not clearly defined by the external appearances of the anatomy

Question 7

Define transgender

Answer 7

An umbrella term for a wide range of gender diverse feelings and expressions including; gender incongruence, non-binary and non-gender / agender

Question 8

Define gender incongruence

Answer 8

Gender identity not associated with observable phenotype

Question 9

What is transsexualism?

Answer 9

A desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex, usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with, or inappropriateness of ones anatomic sex and a wish to have surgery and hormonal treatment to make ones body as congruent as possible with ones preferred sex

Question 10

What is dual role tranvestism?

Answer 10

The wearing of clothes of the opposite sex for part of the individuals existence in order to enjoy the temporary experience of membership of the opposite sex, but without any desire for a more permanent sex change or associated surgical reassignment, and without sexual excitement accompanying the cross dressing

Question 11

Describe gender identity disorder of childhood

Answer 11

• a disorder, usually first manifesting during early childhood (always well before puberty), characterised by a persistent and intense distress about assigned sex, together with a desire to be (or insistence that one is) of the other sex
• there is a persistent preoccupation with the dress and activities of the opposite sex and repudiation of the individuals own sex
• the diagnosis required a profound disturbance of the normal gender identity

Question 12

What is fetishistic transvestism

Answer 12

The wearing of clothes of the opposite sex principally to obtain sexual excitement and to create the appearance of a person of the opposite sex. Fetishistic transvestism is distinguished from transsexual transvestism by its clear association with sexual arousal and the strong desire to remove the clothing once orgasm occurs and sexual arousal declines