FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cisgender, Umbrella Term, Sociobiology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Sandra Pericak

Document Summary

In 1918: pink for boys (stinger colour, blue for girls (more delicate colour) Gender =/= sex: gender: relationship to masculinity, femininity, both or neither, sex: anatomy a person appears to have when they are born. Intersex: anatomy, chromosomes, and/or hormones fall outside of typical definitions of female and male. Gender is a social construct it was created by society not by nature. Gender and sex roles: role: behaviour associated with someone who holds a particular status (aka wife, Parent: gender role: behaviour expected of a female or male in a particular culture (submissive, aggressive, sex role: behaviour defined by biological constraints (has uterus, can house a baby) Gender components: gender identity, gender expression, sex relationship. Cisgender and transgender: cisgender: identifying with the gender assigned at birth, transgender: identifying with a different gender than the one assigned at birth, transition, social, emotional, medical. Gender identity non-binary: agender, genderqueer, genderfluid, bigender.