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Describe the concept of sex

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  • sex refers to the biological status of a person as a male or female in their physical development
  • judged on genital appearance at birth, reproductive organs, skeletal characteristics and musculature
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What are the 5 sexes?

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  • males
  • females
  • herms (true hermaphrodites)
  • merms (male ‘pseudohermaphrodites’)
  • ferms (female ‘pseudohermaphrodites’)
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Describe the concept of gender and its related aspects

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  • gender refers to the cultural rather than biological differences between men and women

3 related aspects:

  • society’s constructed gender roles, norms and behaviours
  • gender identity (internal perception)
  • gender presentation/expression (the way someone lives in society and interacts with others)
4
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Describe the socio-biological theory of gender

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  • gender is fixed by biological reproduction
  • men are driven by psychological and physiological urges ingrained in the caveman era
  • women’s domestic labour, nurturing behaviour, attention to beauty is genetically predetermined
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What is the 4 criteria of gender dysphoria?

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  • strong and persistent cross-gender identification
  • persistent discomfort with his or her sex or sense of inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex
  • the disturbance is not concurrent with a physical intersex condition
  • the disturbance causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning
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What is included under gender/sex reassignment?

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  • telling family, friends, colleagues
  • changing one’s name and/or sex on legal documents
  • hormone therapy
  • hair removal
  • voice therapy
  • chest and/or genital surgery
7
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Describe the medico-legal process of transitioning

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  • visit to GP, referral to psychiatrist
  • detailed psychiatric inquiry into gender development in childhood and puberty, current life circumstances and stability
  • diagnosis of gender dysphoria allows referral to gender identity clinic for consideration of alternatives to gender/sex reassignment, range of options and implications
  • real-life experience/test: period of living out of the gender with which they identify before start of hormone therapy or surgery
8
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Describe the endpoint of transitioning

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  • acquired gender: new gender of a person who has transitioned and had their gender reassigned and or legally recognised
  • gender recognition certificate