T3 L4 Talking about gender

Question 1

What is sex?

Answer 1

Biological construct based upon biological characteristics enabling sexual reproduction. Biological sex is assigned in relation to secondary sexual characteristics, gonads or sex chromosomes

Question 2

What are the 4 types of sexual categories?

Answer 2

Male
Female
Intersexual
Transexual

Question 3

What is intersexual?

Answer 3

Person born with both female and male sexual characteristics

Question 4

What is gender?

Answer 4

Social construct regarding culture-bound conventions, roles and behaviours for, as well as relations between and among women/ men and boys/girls

Question 5

Describe gender roles

Answer 5

Vary across a continuum and both gender relations and biologic expressions of gender vary within and across societies

Question 6

What is sexism?

Answer 6

Involves inequitable gender relations. Refers to institutional and interpersonal practices whereby members of dominant gender identity groups acre privileges by subordinating other gender groups and justify these practices via ideologies of innate superiority, difference or deviance.

Question 7

What is genderbread used for?

Answer 7

Help break down and explain various components of sex and gender

Question 8

Why should doctors care about gender socialisation?

Answer 8

Women often get under diagnosed and misdiagnosed

Gender pay gap

Question 9

What is intersex?

Answer 9

Complex processes of sex determination and sex differentiation are disrupted / incomplete

Question 10

What is aphasia?

Answer 10

First 2 sections of the genitals don’t develop

Equally common in both genders

Question 11

What is clitoromegaly?

Answer 11

Abnormal enlargement of the clitoris

Question 12

This is chordee?

Answer 12

Head of the penis forms as if it were female while the other parts continue as male
Usually corrected in surgery

Question 13

What is true hermaphroditism?

Answer 13

Individual has ovarian and testicular tissue present

Question 14

Describe the link between transgenders and suicide risk

Answer 14

50% of transgender youths will attempt suicide before their 20th birthday

Question 15

What is gender affirmation?

Answer 15

Having one’s gender identity acknowledge and accepted in social, legal and other settings

Question 16

What can discrimination of trans cause?

Answer 16

Increased stress
Anxiety
Depressive symptoms
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Substance abuse and suicide

Question 17

Being trans increases the risk of what?

Answer 17

Bullying
Verbal harassement
Sexual assault
Non-sexual violence
Decreased health care utilisation

Question 18

What is gender identity?

Answer 18

One’s sense of oneself as male, female or outside these categories

Question 19

What is a cisgender man?

Answer 19

A person assigned male sex at birth who identifies as a man

Question 20

What is a cisgender woman?

Answer 20

A person assigned female sex at birth who identifies as a female

Question 21

What is genderqueer?

Answer 21

Person with non binary gender identity, identifying as both a man and a woman or neither

Question 22

What is a transgender man?

Answer 22

Person assigned female sex at birth who identifies as a man

Question 23

What is a transgender female?

Answer 23

Person assigned male sex at birth who identifies as a female

Question 24

What is the definition of transgender?

Answer 24

Umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from the sex assigned to them at birth

Question 25

What is the definition of transsexual?

Answer 25

Desire to live and be accepted as a member of the opposite sex. Usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with one’s anatomic sex and the wish to have surgery and hormonal treatment

Question 26

What is transition?

Answer 26

Process by which a permanent change of gender roles is undertaken and the individual starts to live as the gender in which they identify

Question 27

What does transition involve?

Answer 27

Social, physical or legal changes
Changing one’s appearance
Changing one’s name, pronoun and sex designation on legal documents
Medical interventions

Question 28

What is sex reassignment surgery (SRS)?

Answer 28

Surgical procedure by which a person’s physical function and appearance of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble that of the other sex

Question 29

Why do we need to consider the importance of primary care for trans population?

Answer 29

GP may be the first person they tell abut their gender dissonance
Open, non-judgemental approach needed
Refer to regional gender service, even if they aren’t completely sure they are transgender
Signpost to support groups
Vulnerable to mental health problems
May be self-medicating with hormones
Still need appropriate screening