Women's Studies 1021F/G Lecture 10: Intersexuality

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 1021F/G
• Professor: Frank Cameron

Document Summary

Gender identity: subjective sense of fit with particular gender category. Cisgender: one who does not move away from the gender they were assigned at birth (cis = on the same side as ) Transgender: moving away from the gender one was assigned at birth (mtf-=male to female/woman/she and ftm = female to male/man/he) Gender identity disorder : experiencing unhappiness about the gender-signifying parts of one"s body or one"s social gender, an antiquated term that pathologizes transfolk. Author starts of with the athlete because the distinctions we make between males and females are not always clear cut. One of the major claims i make in this book is that labeling someone a man or a woman is a social decision. We may use scientific knowledge to help us make the decision, but only our beliefs about gender not science can define our sex. (anne fausto-sterling, 3) Sex: refers to physical attributes and is anatomically and physiologically determined.