SOCIOL 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sex Organ, Gender Binary, Sex Assignment
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Sex = the gender we were assigned at birth. Our assigned sex is what we are born with in terms of chromosomes, hormones and our primary sex characteristics. Some of the terms often identified with sex: male, female, intersex. Difference between gender identity and gender expression. Umbrella term to describe individuals who identify their gender differently that it was assigned to them: May also include people outside of the gender binary(identify as neither man or woman) Men and women are different (opposite and mutually exclusive) We must identify as the genders we are assigned.
