ANTH 331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Variance, Gender Dysphoria, Blood Test
11 Dec 2016
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Gender identity: re ects a persons subjectively felt experiences of being masculine, feminine, or ambivalent. Gender expression: how someone preforms their gender; the external behaviours and characteristics that someone uses to express themselves as masculine, feminine or another gender outside the 2 gender system. Chromosomes: might have xx or xy or other variations: 2. Gonads: person has both ovarian and testicular tissue, may be in the same gonad ovo- testis , or they have one ovary and one testis: 3. I want to be somewhere between two xed points of gender . Cisgender: refers to a person whose biological sex assigned at birth matches their gender identity. Cross dresser: someone who generally identi es with their assigned sex but at times identi es and personi es the opposite sex in their gender presentation and dress: not necessarily liked to erotic activity nor is it indicative of sexual orientation.
