Module 15 - gender development

Question 1

sex

Answer 1

• biological maleness/femaleness
• genital and hormonal differences
• chromosomes cause these developments and is usually unambiguous

Question 2

intersex

Answer 2

• missing or extra set of chromosome
• XY with female external genitals or XX with male external genitals
• external genitals can between male and female

Question 3

gender

Answer 3

general term for societal and behavioral aspects of maleness/femaleness

Question 4

gender identity

Answer 4

• deeply felt sense of one’s own maleness/femaleness

Question 5

gender expression

Answer 5

• all the signifiers of gender which may or may not reflect one’s gender identity
• can differ with different cultures
• Ex: clothes, speech, interests, etc.

Question 6

transgender

Answer 6

• general term that includes various ways one’s gender identity can differ from one’s sex
  often includes:
• male sex, female gender identity
• female sex, male gender identity
• gender identity neither male nor female, or mixture of both

Question 7

gender dysphoria

Answer 7

• intense distress over conflict between one’s sex and gender identity
• typically starts in childhood and worsens in puberty
• most people who identify as trans are not diagnosed with gender dysphoria

Question 8

prenatal sexual development

Answer 8

• 7th week - Y chromosome prompts testes to develop testosterone
• 4th-5th month - sex hormones in fetal brain support female/male typical development
• it is thought that slightly more or less than the typical amount of a given sex hormone during development may change the brain in a way that leads to same-sex attraction or trans identity later in life

Question 9

adolescent sexual development

Answer 9

• largely driven by sex hormones
• development of primary and secondary sex characteristics

Question 10

primary sex characteristics

Answer 10

• sex characteristics directly related to reproduction
• ex: maturation of ovaries/testes, external genitals

Question 11

secondary sex characteristics

Answer 11

• sec characteristics not directly related to reproduction
• ex: breasts, widened hips in girls voice change, body hair

Question 12

sex differences between male and female

Answer 12

• males and females are more alike than different
• sex differences exist in all sexual species
• ex: boys are more physically aggressive
  girls are more relationally aggressive