FRHD 2100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, American Psychiatric Association, Gender Dysphoria
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Unit 7 gender identity and gender roles. Key terms: gender the psychological state of being female or male, as influenced by cultural concepts of gender-appropriate behavior. Intersexual a person who possesses the gonads of one-gender and external genitalia that are ambiguous or typical of another gender. As a result, his genitals do not become normally masculinized: dominican republic syndrome a form of intersexualism in which a genetic enzyme disorder prevents testosterone from masculinizing the external genitalia. Gender-identity disorder": transgenderism a synonym for transsexualism. " also an activist movement seeking rights and pride for transgendered individuals. For many in the transgender-or trans"- movement, the label transgendered" encompasses not only. In female fetuses, the mullerian ducts develop into the fallopian tubes, the uterus, and the upper two-thirds of the vagina (they can happen even in the absence of female sex hormones) Congenital adrenal hyperplasia (cah) genetic (xx) female has female internal sexual structures (ovaries) and masculinized external genitals.