FMST 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gender Role, Genderqueer, Gender Variance
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Appropriate therapeutic care for families with pre-pubescent transgender/gender-dissonant children (research study #4) Be sure to clarify the difference between a social and physical transition in your explanation. Physical transition is not necessary for a pre-pubescent child, whose hormones have not yet modified their bodies in the direction of adult male or female. strictly social process, a change of gender role and possibly gender expression. An experience of some degree of difference between body and identity, in the realm of gender. A female-affirmed child may identify as a girl and still enjoy athletics, for example. A difference between body, biological sex, and mind, gender identity. Be sure to clarify the difference between these two terms in your explanation. Gender variance: gender-variance is a cultural construct; the norm from which the behavior is varying isn"t a constant from culture to culture, or from one time period to another within the same culture. Gender variance: gender expression (behaviour), another term: cross-gender behaviour.
