PSYCH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Y Chromosome, Sex Organ, Genderqueer
8 Nov 2016
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Gender identity - how you consider yourself -- chemistry (like hormone levels) that composes you and how you interpret what that means. Gender expression - how you demonstrate gender through your actions, fashion, behavior, and interactions. Biological sex - objectively measure organs, hormones, chromosomes. Females - have vaginas, ovaries, xx chromosomes. Sexual orientation - who you are physically, spiritually, and emotionally attracted to based on their sex/gender in relation to your own. Heterosexual - attracted to the opposite sex. Homosexual - attracted to the same sex. Bisexual - attracted to both the opposite and the same sex (middle) Sex - classification as male or female based on genetic composition and structure or function of reproductive organs. Biological sex determined by 5 factors at birth: Type of gonads - ovaries or testicles. Males have one x and one y chromosome. If you have xy chromosomes (male), gonads develop into testes causing hormones to defeminize and masculinize body.
