FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5, 7, 9, 17: Libido, Cryptorchidism, Pansexuality

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 2100
• Professor: Robin Milhausen

Document Summary

Gender typing process by which boys and girls come to behave / learn behaviours in line with what is expected of men and women. 4 months after conception testes descend into the scrotal sac through the inguinal canal, which then closes: cryptorchidism - a condition in which at least one of the testes fails to descend and is in abdomen at. 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)