sex and gender Flashcards
refers to the biology of being male, female, or intersex
sex
refers to behavioral psychological and social characteristics of being male or female
gender
XXY- egg contained an extra X
1/700 live male births
develops male genitalia but not fully
tall feminized body
klinefelter’s syndrome XXY
xx girl exposed to excess androgen from adrenal glands prenatally
sometimes ambiguous external genitalia
congenital adrenal hyperplasia CAH
xy- the body doesnt respond to testosterone that is produced by the testes
1/20,000 boys
no internal reproductive structure except two undescended
androgen - insensitivity syndrome AIS
a culturally defined set of attitudes behaviors and expectations that people with a certain gender are expected to enact
gender roles
gender specific behaviors that may be biologically determined or innate
gender traits
how people acquire gender roles and gender identity
gender typing
how people acquire gender roles and gender identity
gender typing
an umbrella term
denotes people whose behaviors lie outside the purview of typical gender identity and or expression
transgenderism
the sex and or genders that a person is attracted to emotionally physically romantically and sexually
sexual orientation
this term usually refers to a person who identifies as a gneder identity (man, woman) different than the one they were assigned at birth
transgender
7 point scale from exlusively
kinsey continuum category number