PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychopathology, Physical Examination, Psychosexual Development
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Three aspects of the development of gender identity are separable: gender role, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex. In some instances these variables of gender do not coincide. Rare cases where the actual biological variables are disagreeing, hermaphroditism/intersex occurs, with the reproductive structures being partly female and partly male. Gender role define by ones culture interms of ones culture and what is expected of boys and girls. Gender identity internal experience of knowing if you are a female or male. Tansgender ind have anatomy of ones sex and gender identity of another. The condition of feeling one"s emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one"s biological sex. If an individual feels like the opposite gender trapped in their present gender, this experience would be termed gender dysphoria. Gender dysphoria (gd) denotes distress or discomfort with one"s biological sex or assigned gender.
