ATYPICAL GENDER DEVELOPMENT AKA GENDER DYSMORPHIA Flashcards
(12 cards)
What is gender dysmorphhia
Person has distress because they experience a mismatch between their assigned sex and their gender identity
What does the brain sex theory suggest
Gender dysmorphia based in the brain structure the BST
BST is size of gender they identify with not biological sex
What does the BST do/look like in people
It’s responsible for emotional responses
Bigger in men so would be smaller if a trans female
Who researched into the BST and what
Kruijver et al- trans research found that the bst neuron number is in the female range
Who did twin studies
Coolidge et al 2002
What did twin studies find
62% of twin studies heritable as a mz concordant
What is a strength of the biooogical explanations of gender dysmorphia
Brain differences, white matter in the brain differnt in trans people be fore hormone therapy
Limitation of the biological explanations
Contradictory evidence- bst change due to hormone therapy
MRI and post mortuary done on trans people
What is social constructism
Gender concepts were invented by societies
Confusion occurs from pressure of picking man or woman
What is the psychoanalytic theory
Social relationships within a family cause dysmorphia
Trans males cased due to having separation anxiety before the gender identity was established so he fantasises fusing with mother therefore becoming the mother
Strength of social constructism
Explains why cultures have more than two genders
Samoa has a 3rd gender
Non binary people ar seen as a gender in some cultures aswell
Limitation of the psychoanalytic theory
Gender bias it doesn’t accord for females at all
