PSYC 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Secondary Sex Characteristic, Sexual Dimorphism, Sex Assignment
15 Dec 2018
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Sex assignment at birth: rearing a child as girl or boy, differential socialization, the child"s own body image, core gender identity, hormones play key roles at puberty. Fighting off predators: parental aggression, defense of young, nestling, nurturing young, parentalism, visual sexual-erotic arousal. Identical twin brothers: circumcision accident resulted in severely traumatized penis, which could not be reconstructed. Injured xy boy was reassigned to female and raised as a girl. Females can express masculine behaviors and vice versa: transposition or switching over of attributes, expectancies, or stereotypes of gender identity and roles. Small or large: most visible and common example: cross dressing, transgender = cross-coding gender identity, experience self as member of other sex, aware at very young age, anatomical brain differences. Interventions to change identity to body sex fails. Sex reassignment: medical process to change body sex to match gender identity.
