gender Flashcards
sex assigned at birth
-biological
-Based on external genitalia
Gender Identity: man, woman
-your mind
-how you feel, your inner psychological sense of who you are
Gender expression: masculine or feminine
-external
-the entire body because we can express our gender in several ways
sexual orientation
-the heart
-Focused on feelings not behaviors
cisgender
a person whose gender identity aligns with their sex assigned at birth
transgender
a person whose gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth
nonbinary
a person who identifies as a different gender than they were assigned at birth, specifically an identity that doesn’t align with the traditional ideas of man and woman
Enacted sexual stigma
overt behavioral stigma
- Ex: abusive language, harrasment, violence
felt stigma
a persons expectation that sexual stigma might be enacted
internalized self stigma
ones personal acceptance of sexual stigma as part of self concept and value system
heterosexism
an ideological system that denies, denigrates, and stigmatizes any nonheterosexual form of behavior, identity, relationship, or community
- Societal insitiuions such as such as religion, laws such as antiLBTQ bills, medicine, that treat non-heterosexuals as bad or inferior