Gender Incongruence Flashcards
What is it?
Transgender
Gender incongruence?
Gender identity not assoc with observable phenotype
Non binary?
Identity between male and female
Non gender/agender?
No gender experience
Gender identity?
Psychological sense of fitting into social gender categories
Gender role?
Expression of gender identity by scial constructs of dress, mannerism and behaviours
Cis gender?
Gender identity consistent with assigned sex at birth
Gender dysphoria?
Unease arising from incongruence experiences socially and with physical characteristics
Cool thing I learnt on placement that probs wont come up on exam but is interesting?
Over 2/3s (possibly even in the 90% area, was quite vague) of patients looking to transition have ASD
but basically
correlation between transgender and ASD
