SOCI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Reductionism, Holding Hands, Relief Society
3 Nov 2016
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Sex refers to the biological characteristics of female and male. Sex is assigned at birth, refers to: one"s biological status as either male or female, associated with physical attributes (chromosomes, hormone prevalence, external/internal anatomy) patterns) that do not fit typical binary notions of male/female bodies. Intersex: people are born with sex characteristics (including genitalia, chromosomal. Intersex is distinct from a person"s sexual orientation and gender identity. Gender refers to the roles and characteristics society associates with being male and female. Binary concept of gender (either/or) is not universal. Transgender is an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression or behaviour does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth. Cisgender: a term referring to a person whose gender identity, expression etc. conforms to their assigned sex. Gender identity refers to a person"s internal sense of being male, female or neither of these two.
