HLTH 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sex Change, Gender Binary, Allosome
9 Mar 2019
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Gender development, gender roles, and gender identity: sex vs. Gender: sexual di erentiation in the womb, the gender binary; masculinity and femininity, gender roles and traits, gender across the lifespan, gender identity vs. Expression: socialization and gender theory, transgender and non-binary experiences, cross-cultural varieties in gender, how to practice allyship. Is not the same as gender and is assigned at birth; usually male or female based on external genitalia. This term refers to people whose characteristics at birth fall within typical and traditional sex categories: male: xy chromosomes, typical male genitalia, testicles, testosterone, female: xx chromosomes, typical female genitalia, uterus, estrogen. This is referred to as cisgender: transgender describes people whose gender identity is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth. At around 5-7 weeks of development during pregnancy the fetus begins the process of sexual di erentiation. Sex chromosomes x and y initiate the process and the development of sex organs.
