WGSS 1105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Transphobia, Sexual Differentiation, Heterosexism

• School: UConn
• Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Course: WGSS 1105
• Professor: Sherry Zane

Document Summary

Biological sex: sex based at birth, based on genitaled. Gender identity: an individual"s internal sense of being male, female or something else. Since gender identity is internal, one"s gender identity is not necessarily visible to others. Cisgender: a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person was assigned at birth. Transgender: transgender is a gender identity not sexual orientation. A term for people whose gender identity, expression or behavior is different from those typically associated with their assigned sex at birth. Note: transgender is correctly used as an adjective, not a noun, thus transgender people is appropriate but transgender is often viewed as disrespectful. Gender expression: how a person represents or expresses one"s gender identity to others, often through behavior, clothing, hairstyles, voice or body characteristics. Sex: a medical term designating a certain combination of gonads, chromosomes, external gender organs, secondary sex characteristics and hormonal balances.