On Sex(es) and Gender(s)

Question 1

LGBTTQQIAAP

Answer 1

lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual

Question 2

Definition of “sex”

Answer 2

usually based on the assignment of a binary category (male/female) based on chromosomes, external/internal anatomy, and other factors arbitrarily determined by physicians

Question 3

Definition of “gender”

Answer 3

social and cultural construction that fits biological differences into socially meaningful categories

identity with and lived-experience of how one feels on the sometimes sliding spectrum of female-male experience, but also applies to those who don’t fit on the female-male spectrum

Question 4

Cis-gender

Answer 4

correspondence between one’s gender based on their biological sex and the gender they identity with and/or experience

Question 5

Transgender

Answer 5

those whose gender identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on their biological sex

Question 6

Gender-queer/intersex

Answer 6

lived-experience and identification with both male and female, neither, or a combination

e.g. hijras, agender, demi-girl/boy/ambigender

Question 7

Definition of “gender ideology”

Answer 7

the totality of ideas about sexualities, genders, and the “natures” of women, men, and those who live outside and in between the sex spectrum (female-male)

these “natures” include their sexualities, and the varying interpretations, meanings, and relations thereof

Question 8

Gender roles

Answer 8

culturally interpreted and patterned, and therefore subject to variation

can be based on a narrow, morally-grounded understanding of what is “normal” or “normative”, which is itself based on gender ideology

Question 9

Toxic masculinity

Answer 9

an example of how gender roles in a traditional gendered binary can be noxious

a cultural expectation for men to be more dominant, and that the range of their emotional expression should be limited to that of anger