PSYCH 2810 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Third Gender, Genetic Predisposition, Y Chromosome
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Biological: how your body comes to be male or female. Psychological: how your gender identity and sexual orientation merge. Sexual development co-occurs with development of gender identity. Psychological gender- independent maleness and femaleness scales: genetic predisposition, cultural development, prenatal sexual development. Eggs and sperm cells contain one set of mix chromosomes. Xx|xx or xx|xy or xy|xy: chimeraism or mosaicism: a set of fraternal twins, bump into each other and form one person made of two separate people, may look like male or female. In infants: swollen hands and feet, wide and webbed neck. In older females (usually diagnosed at puberty): absent or incomplete puberty; broad, flat chest; drooping eyes; Early puberty, tall, fertile: diagnosed when they give birth to a child. In infants: often no symptoms, (sometimes) micropenis, micro- testicles: older males: female characteristics at puberty; low testosterone, high fsh, high lh, infertility (but sperm may be low counts)
