SOC 123 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Gender Dysphoria, Micropenis, Genderqueer
●Gender, Sex, Gender Identity, Intersexuality, Transgenderism
○We live in gender binary world
■Assume men and women are very different
■Gender identity
●What you feel you are
●Could be either man or woman or feel like both or neither
■Gender expression
●Feminine
●Masculine
●Androgynous
○Both characteristics
○Most likely to get along better with people
■Biological sex
●Female, male, or intersex
■Sexual orientation
●Heterosexual, homosexual
○Biological sex is complicated
■Chromosomal
■Gonade
■Prenatal hormonal
■Prenatal brain differentiation
■Internal organs
■Genital appearance
■Puberty hormonal gender
■Assigned gender
■Gender identity
○Atypical sexual differentiation can occur
■Internal sex structures may not be consistent with external sex structures
■Medical field refers to it as Disorder of sexual development (DSD)
■More informally referred to as Difference in Sexual Development
■Intersex = term for people with DSD
■Occurs in about 1 in every 2,000 births
■Many different ways that this could happen
■Previously referred to as Hermaphrodites
■Five main types of DSDs falling into two categories
●Variations caused by sex chromosomes
○Turners syndrome
■Presence of one sex chromosome instead of two
○ Klinefelter's syndrome
■Occurs when a person is an XXY
●Variations caused by prenatal hormonal processes
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Document Summary
Assume men and women are very different. Could be either man or woman or feel like both or neither. Most likely to get along better with people. Internal sex structures may not be consistent with external sex structures. Medical field refers to it as disorder of sexual development (dsd) More informally referred to as difference in sexual development. Intersex = term for people with dsd. Occurs in about 1 in every 2,000 births. Many different ways that this could happen. Five main types of dsds falling into two categories. Presence of one sex chromosome instead of two. Occurs when a person is an xxy. Fetus looks like a female but has male chromosomes. Do not develop normally because do not react to testosterone. Believed that babies are gender neutral at birth (blank slate) Infants should be assigned immediately a gender (based on best available knowledge) Should include surgical and hormonal intervention to minimize gender confusion.
