FRHD 2100 Chapter Midterm: FRHD 2100 Chapter : FRHD-2100-Chapter-Notes-Midterm-2-Stef-and-Joelle (1)
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Gender typing process by which boys and girls come to behave / learn behaviours in line with what is expected of men and women. Fsh stimulates ovaries to produce estrogen, and stimulates an immature follicle in an ovary to ripen. Gender identity: one"s internal psychological and individual sense of being female, male or other shade of gender, assigned sex - the classification of anatomic sex assigned at birth (either male, female or intersex) Gender dysphoria: a sense of mismatch between assigned sex and gender identity that causes significant distress. Rather, it"s caused by the discriminatory and hostile attitudes such children are subjected to by society (distress not caused by boyhood femininity itself, rather by social condemnation) A world of diversity: third gender / third sex = people considered neither men nor women; a social category in societies that recognize 3 or more sexes. Indian passport app. forms have 3 gender options (male, female and eunuch) since 2005.