PSY 399 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cisgender, Genderqueer, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
14 May 2018
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Class 13: May 14
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● Biological Sex
○ Genitalia, hormones, chromosomes, internal sex organs,
gonads, individual cells
● Gender Identity
○ Personal sense of gender, psychologically and internally
focused
● Gender Expression
○ Way that gender identity is externalized and expressed to
others, norms and expectations vary across culture/time
● Gender Roles
○ Cultural norms for gender, expectations for what men and
women should do
● Sexual Orientation
○ The gender one is attracted to
● Cisgender:
○ Kids who identify with the gender they were assigned
● Gender Typical
○ Kids whose gender expression falls into society’s
definition of normal
● Gender create/expansive
○ Kids who identify with assigned gender, but their gender
expression pushes boundaries and falls outside of normal
● Gender Fluid
○ Kids who identify and expression are fluid or bi-gendered
● Agender
○ People who identify as genderless or lacking gender,
gender neutral
● Transgender
○ Kids who identify with the opposite binary gender to
which they were assigned at birth
Putting it together
● Gender and biological sex are more varied than a simple binary
suggestions
○ Children have internal sense of gender and experience
distress when assigned gender doesn't match internal
● Gender expression is often culturally determined and changes
over time
○ Great social weight is placed on conforming to current
norms
Risks
● Transgender children rejected and not supported are at increased
risk of:
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Document Summary
Genitalia, hormones, chromosomes, internal sex organs, gonads, individual cells. Personal sense of gender, psychologically and internally focused. Way that gender identity is externalized and expressed to others, norms and expectations vary across culture/time. Cultural norms for gender, expectations for what men and women should do. Kids who identify with the gender they were assigned. Kids whose gender expression falls into society"s definition of normal. Kids who identify with assigned gender, but their gender expression pushes boundaries and falls outside of normal. Kids who identify and expression are fluid or bi-gendered. People who identify as genderless or lacking gender, gender neutral. Kids who identify with the opposite binary gender to. Gender and biological sex are more varied than a simple binary which they were assigned at birth suggestions. Children have internal sense of gender and experience distress when assigned gender doesn"t match internal. Gender expression is often culturally determined and changes over time.
