Inclusive Care for LGBTQ Patients Flashcards
What is sexual identity?
Pattern of a person’s biological sexual characteristics
What are the sexual characteristics?
- Chromosomes
- External genitalia
- Internal genitalia
- Hormonal composition
- Gonads
- Secondary sex characteristics
Genetic influences and hormones affect what?
Behavior
Environment affects what?
Hormonal production and gene expression
Gender identity is more congruent with what?
With the child’s emotional sense of maleness or femaleness
Maleness and femaleness develop normally, but what must still be developed?
Persons must still develop a sense of masculinity or femininity
What does gender identify arise from?
- Parental and cultural attitudes
- The infant’s external genitalia
- Genetic influence
Gender identity cues are derived from what?
- Experience with family members
- Teachers
- Friends
- Coworkers
- Cultural phenomena
What is gender expression/role?
- All those things that a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or women, respectively
- Can seem to be opposed to their gender identities
Gender expression/role is build up cumulatively through what?
- Experiences encountered and transacted through casual and unplanned learning
- Explicit instruction and inculcation
- Spontaneously putting two and two together to make sometimes four and sometimes five
What is sexual orientation?
Describes the object of a person’s sexual impulses:
- heterosexual
- homosexual
- bisexual
What is sexual value system?
Your personal beliefs, attitudes or feelings about sex and sexuality
What is identifying data for sexual history?
- Age
- Sex
- Occupation
- Relationship status
- Sexual orientation
What current functioning history do you ask about?
- Satisfaction
- Partner satisfaction
- Dysfunctions (lack of desire, erectile disorder, fear)
- Frequency
- Desire/libido, description of sexual interaction
- Sexual compulsivity (intrusion of sexual thoughts that it interferes with relationship or work)
What past sexual history is important to ask about?
- Childhood sexuality
- Childhood sex activities
