week 5

Question 1

gender binary

Answer 1

• 2 distinct forms of masculine and feminine

Question 2

sex binary

Answer 2

• 2 distinct forms of male and female

Question 3

cissexism

Answer 3

• assumes cisgender is the only/right gender

Question 4

schudson and morgenroth (2022)
non-binary experience

Answer 4

• confused, only exist online, not trans enough
• build and connect with people within their communities
• struggle to describe and communicate their gender/sex identity
• work with their community to create new language to speak about their gender/sex identity

Question 5

gender dysphoria DSM-5

Answer 5

• distress resulting from the discrepancy between one’s gender/sex and birth assigned sex lasting at least 6 months
• physical body vs social gendered experiences
• clinically significant impacting functioning

Question 6

forms of gender affirmation

Answer 6

• social
• legal
• medical
• surgical

Question 7

gender euphoria

Answer 7

• enjoyment/satisfaction cause by the correspondence between gender identity/gendered features associated with a gender other than the one assigned at birth

Question 8

beischel et al
aim

Answer 8

• what is gender euphoria, relationship with dysphoria
• how is euphoria experienced

Question 9

beischel et al
procedure

Answer 9

• 47 participants had to know the term
• qualitative online survey
• 500 data responses
• range of gender/sex identities
• analyzed themantically, find patterns within data

Question 10

beischel et al
results

Answer 10

• euphoria = joyful feeling of rightness in one’s gender sex, dysphoria = negative feeling of conflict between gender/sex
• experiences can be physical, psychological, social
• euphoria originated online
• diverse understanding of intensity

Question 11

beischel et al
conclusion

Answer 11

• work to update DSM
• change how clinicians approach gender euphoria/dysphoria

Question 12

gender similarity hypothesis (hyde, 2005)
aim

Answer 12

• are women and men different from each other?
• meta analysis of papers on gender differences, calculate average effect size
• .5 medium, .8 larger = large

Question 13

gender similarity hypothesis (hyde, 2005)
results

Answer 13

math
- 48% bachelor degrees go to women
- 0.03 - 0.14, very small, no signifigant gender/sex difference mathematical ability

abilities, physical attributes, psychological attributes
- 78% of gender/sex differences small, close to zero

Question 14

peterson and hyde (2010)

Answer 14

• sexual behaviours and attitudes
• meta analysis
• overall women and men similar however few variables different

men more
- porn, masturbation, casual sex, extra-relational, # of sexual partners

same
- frequency of sex/oral sex, first time, condom use