WEEK 1 LEC 12: NEITHER SEX OR GENDER IS BINARY Flashcards
Identify with sex assigned at birth
Cis gender
Do not Identify with sex assigned at birth
Trans gender
gender identity is established at age?
3 years
Expression of gender through clothing, behavior, language, and other outward signs
Gender expression
Is influenced by genitals, chromosome, gonads, and
hormones all playing a role
biological sex
Is a deeply felt sense of being a man, a woman, or a gender that is both, fluid or neither.
Gender identity
Gender identity splits into what 3 catagories
- women
- Non-binary
- Men
Biological sex split into what 3 categories
- Female
- Intersex
- Male
Gender expression splits into 3 categories
- Feminine
- Androgynous
- Masculine
Intersex, which is failure of female or male gonads to develop after u have well presented with either XX or XY chromosomes is due to______
Dysfunctional SRY gene or absence of the gene
*It’s a gene responsible for development of gonads aligning with your sex chromosomes.
A disorder that results when an XY embryo hardly responds at all to its male hormones, and does not develop male genitalia, looking
female.
Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS)
The children of Dominican republic
Born looking like girls, who
develop into boys at puberty because of an inherited enzyme deficiency
DSD
Differences of Sexual Development
The first team to do the genitalia correctional surgeries to intersex infants
Team at John Hopkins university
*After 1930s
A psychologist John Money’s words in theconcept of assigning gender to the intersex
“as long as you assign a gender to a child, do what you can to make the genitalia align with the assigned gender, you can
nurture any child into either gender”
