SOC365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sex Assignment, Gender Binary, Polysexuality
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Broad umbrella category; phenomenon occurs when individual sex assignment doesn"t match with gender identity. If there"s a complete match between gender role & sex assignment then it"s called. Self-attribution or subjective attribution versus external attribution. External attribution - their gender identity doesn"t match up with sex assignment. Subjective/self attribution - when one identifies themselves as transgender. Someone who wishes to be the opposite sex from which they were born. Ftm - born female but wants to transition to male. Mtf - born male but wants to transition to female. We use pronoun of the gender one wants to become. We rely on self-attribution to define our gender. Transexual is reiiterating a binary conceptual of gender; some people believe that it is the system"s problem and they if they identify with a different gender than their sex then it should be that way; Transitioning to another sex conforms to the institutional binary system which makes it normal again: trans feminine.
