Sex and Gender Review

Assigned at birth. Biological status as either male or female. Associated primarily with chromosomes, hormonal balances, and external/internal anatomy

• Sex

• Gender Socialization

• Gender

• Gender Identity

• Gender Spectrum

Socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that society considers appropriate males and females

• Sex

• Gender Socialization

• Gender

• Gender Identity

• Gender Spectrum

The way someone learns to be male or female

• Gender Expression

• Gender Socialization

• Gender

• Gender Identity

• Gender Spectrum

Personal sense of masculine, feminine or combination of each

• Gender Expression

• Gender Socialization

• Gender

• Gender Identity

• Gender Spectrum

Gender has many options

• Gender Expression

• Gender Socialization

• Gender

• Gender Identity

• Gender Spectrum

Only two genders, male or female

• Binary

• Transgender

• Genderqueer

• Transsexual

“Umbrella” term re: the mismatch between gender identity, gender expression and biological sex

• Binary

• Transgender

• Genderqueer

• Transsexual

Gender is somewhere on a continuum between male and female or wholly different from these terms

• Binary

• Transgender

• Genderqueer

• Transsexual

People who use medical interventions such as hormone therapy, gender-affirming surgeries (GAS) or pursue medical interventions as part of the process of expressing their gender

• Binary

• Transgender

• Genderqueer

• Transsexual

Gender Dysphoria

• Discomfort over the mismatch between biological sex and psychological/emotional experience of gender

• The way a person communicates gender identity to others

• Gender has many options

• How culture defines “male” and “female”