SOC365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Gender Identity, Gender Role, Sexual Orientation
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Things that constitute sex: chromosomes (xx xy) there are some gene configurations that cause xxy, xxyy and. Xyy: genitals but there are hermaphrodites, hormones esp. secondary sex characteristics. Sex is more complicated but bodies are born beyond the bodies clit beyond 0. 9 centimeters = penis and lower is female. Relationship between sex and gender system: sex assignment, gender identity, gender role, sexual orientation. Male boy - masculine heterosexual (take the opposite sex as his person of interest) Female assumes that she will see herself as a girl she would engage in female appropriate activities or feminine ways she would take the opposite sex as her object choice meaning that she would be heterosexuality. A female that believes themselves as a girl but behaves in masculine always then you could get called out as abnormal for that. Sex is assigned at birth and gender is the meaning that we attach to it.
