ANT-2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Pansexuality, Cisgender
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Sex: based on biology, sexual dimorphism. Gender: based on culture, traits assigned to being a male/female/other. Sex refers to biology the physical body: male, female, intersex. Gender refers to social roles, identity, behavior: man, woman, boy, girl, cisgender, trans*, etc, masculine, feminine, androgynous. Sexuality refers to attraction, orientation, and sexual encounters: heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, pansexual, queer*, etc, monogamous, polygamous. There are typically 5 markers used to determine sex: chromosomes, hormones, inner genitalia, outer genitalia, secondary sex features. All embryos begin with indistinguishable sex and have potential to become a variety of sexes. Starts to form sexual characteristics around age 5-7 weeks. Not all chromosomal compositions are xx or xy. Roughly 1 in every 426 humans have varied chromosomal makeup: over 91 of 38,000 students at purdue. Examples: klinefelter"s syndrome: xxy or xxxy, turner"s syndrome: xo. Glands secrete combinations of the hormones testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone. 2 essential washing of hormones in utero and at puberty.
