FMLY 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 56: Twin Study, Sensation Seeking, Transsexual

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Family Social Sciences
• Course: FMLY 1010
• Professor: Christine A.Schippers

Document Summary

Support groups, social groups positively affect both mothers and their babies, improve outcomes for teenaged fathers. Twin studies: one identical twin is gay, 50-60% other twin is also. 11% paired in same family, not biologically related. Studies suggest families of gay men have higher proportion of homosexual males than do families of heterosexual men. Strengthen that homosexuality has biological basis, but environment also plays a role. Gradual process, start in middle childhood then become fully aware and self-accepted in early adulthood. Psychological gender is opposite of biological sex: could have been exposed to atypical amounts of androgens in womb o. Report being interested in opposite sex activities at early age. Most do not exhibit transgenderism after puberty such behaviors on part of children are not considered predictive of development of transgenderism in adolescence: more likely to suffer from depression, commit suicide, Once accept, live as opposite gender transsexualism.