Psychology 2040A/B Lecture : Week5
16 Apr 2014
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Menu: terms, disorders of sex. Nature or nurture: gender non- conformity. 3 di erent approaches: social transijon in. Sex: biological categories of male and female, dis>nguished by genes, chroms, hormones, genitalia, female, male, intersex. Gender idenjty: inherent sense of being a woman, man, somewhere in between, or neither. Our tradijonal model tells us . However, we know a large number of people do not t this model and that it is a lot more complicated! Gene>c xx female w/ high levels of prenatal testosterone. Male appearing genitals at birth. Gene>c xy male unresponsive to testosterone. Female appearing genitals at birth. David (bruce/brenda or john/joan) reimer: Born 1965 in winnipeg w/ iden>cal male twin. Penis burnt o during circumcision. Bruce reassigned as brenda, tes>cles removed, hair grew out, wore. Annual visits to bal>more to see dr. money dresses, and reinforced for female traits. A success!!! (according to money)
