Module 9: Health, Sex, and Gender

Question 1

Sex

Answer 1

DNA, hormones, reproductive organs - doesn’t tell us about gender, just about a person’s body and body parts

Question 2

Gender

Answer 2

the way a person identifies themselves and experiences gender internally (a sense)

Question 3

Gender roles

Answer 3

expectations and norms put on a person because of their gender

Question 4

Gender attribution/presentation

Answer 4

how ones presents their gender and how others perceive it

Question 5

gender identity

Answer 5

how a person labels their own gender

Question 6

intersex

Answer 6

people who have variations in their chromosomes, hormones, genitalia that aren’t categorized as male or female

Question 7

transgender

Answer 7

gender is different than the one they were assigned at birth

Question 8

cisgender

Answer 8

gender is the same as the gender they were assigned as birth

Question 9

sexuality

Answer 9

how we understand our bodies and relationships - our values and beliefs, bodies, desires, relationships, gender and our thoughts and feelings about all these

Question 10

sexual orientation

Answer 10

a person’s natural attraction to other people, or to no one

Question 11

medicalization

Answer 11

process by which nonmedical problems become defined and treated as medical problems often requiring medical treatment (back i the day being gay, births)

Question 12

health/survival paradox

Answer 12

women suffer from disease more than men but live longer than men

• women are more likely to seek medical care
• also more likely to be dismissed as exaggerating

Question 13

Mental health and gender

Answer 13

suicide - women report suicidal thoughts more often than men but men die from suicide more often

Question 14

testosterone

Answer 14

stops menstration but not ovulation (can still get pregnant)