Sexual Self Flashcards
(26 cards)
sex hormone associated with the female reproductive organs
Estrogen
A hormone made mainly in the testes
Testosterone
refers to biological differences between males, females, and intersex
Sex/Biological Sex
First 22 pairs of chromosome
Autosomes
23rd pair of chromosomes
Sex chromosome
Turner’s syndrome, webbed shoulder of female
XO
most common form of female
XX
Most common form of male
XY
Klinefelter syndrome, small testes and learning disorder
XXY
People with characteristics of being tall and have verbal disorders
XYY
mental disorders at birth
XXXY
social and cultural expectations of how people should behave
gender roles
personal and internal sense of oneself
gender identity
the way a person physically communicates their gender identity
gender expression
people identified by conforming and corresponding on their sex at birth
cisgender
attraction to opposite sex
Heterosexual
attraction to the same sex
Homosexual
gender identity is different from sex at birth
transgender
person whose assigned sex is female and identifies oneself now as masculine
transmasculine
person whose assigned sex is male and now as female
transfeminine
person who permanently changed their body through medical intervention
transsexual
people who experience all gender identities simultaneously
Pangender
person who does not identify with any gender
agender
fluctuate between presenting feminine, masculine, neither, or both
gender fluid
