HPRO 4412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sexual Orientation, Allosome, Sexual Identity
16 Jan 2016
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Most powerful mediating social forces in society. Gender identity: physical and emotional sexual attraction to others, sense of oneself as a female, male etc. A person may identify as transgender and be attracted to any other person, their gender identity is not based on their sexual orientation. Sexual identity: covers the range of ways that people identify themselves as sexual beings. Congenital conditions in which anatomical, gonadal, or chromosomal sex is atypical. Individuals whose phenotype did not match a typical male or female pattern used to be mistakenly called hermaphrodites. True hermaphrodites are very rare in humans, as most have both male and female reproductive organs. Turner"s syndrome (x0: affects 1 in 2500 females, tend to be short, have underdeveloped breasts, and are infertile. Exposed to high levels of androgens produced by the adrenal. Ais individuals have an xy karyotype but develop a female phenotype. Passed through the mother or a mutation.
