CH 5 (part 2)

Question 1

what is sex?

Answer 1

The biological classification and physiological characteristics of being male or female, often (not exclusively) assigned at birth.

Question 2

what is gender?

Answer 2

The cultural or social patterns of behaviour and attitudes associated with being male or female

Question 3

what is gender identity?

Answer 3

One’s internal, deeply held sense of gender

Question 4

what is gender expression?

Answer 4

External manifestations of gender expressed through name, appearance, etc

Question 5

what is transgender?

Answer 5

people whose gender identity and gender expression differ from the biological sex they were assigned at birth

Question 6

what is cis gender?

Answer 6

A term used for people whose assigned sex at birth matches their gender identity and gender expression

Question 7

what is gender queer, non binary, or gender fluid?

Answer 7

People who do not identify within the male / female binary

Question 8

what is intersex?

Answer 8

people born with variations of internal and external sexual anatomy (usually the result of having an xxy chromosome).