WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Dysphoria, Cisgender, Conversion Therapy
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Recap: the history of the sex/gender binary started with both sexes as 1, but the focus of the gender and racial difference continues. Social orders needed to be upheld, society based on patriarchal order, women needed to stay at home. Sex: male and female, biological characteristics of bodies placed in these categories (biological) Social constructionist view: fluid, not determined biologically, product of performance, culture and society. Sex/gender binary: classification of sex and gender into male and female, social boundaries to prevent mixing genders, how society splits people using attributes and identity. Trans: break away from one or more of society"s expectations around sex and gender. Transsexual: perceive themselves as members of gender or sex that is different from the one they were assigned at birth. Transgender: behaviour/expression that doesn"t match gender, gender outside of men/women binary, no gender, multiple genders. Cisgender: someone who isn"t transgendered: gender is not fixed, gender is regulated, gender matters.
