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GT Lecture Four
Gender and Medicalization
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the difference between gender and sex? | Sex is the sum of those differences in the structure and function of the reproductive organs that distinguish male and female while gender is a suphemism of the sex of someone often intended to emphasize the social and cultural as opposed to biological |
| In general, sex is best defined as.....? and gender is best defined as.....? | gender is best defined as differences in sex chromosome while gender is best defined as role differences |
| There are shades of grey with "sex" (physical intersx conditions) and these are....? | Androgen insensitive syndrome where person has physical appearance of a female but have male genitals (has XY) and Andrenogenital syndrome where they are female (have XX) but have a pseudo penis. |
| Read and write out the thing that define gender | :) |
| What are the four gender role stereotypes for males? | Masculine, Culture (work), war, agency (focus on self) |
| What are the four gender role stereotypes for females? | Feminine, Nature (health), Nurturing, Communion (focus on others) |
| Males are more focused on themselves, their own goals and achievements while females are focused on looking after....? | their husband and children |
| Gender is typically operationalized as an u______________ c______________ going from unmitigated c_______________ (complete focus on others) to unmitigated ______________ (complete focus on self). So these are the two extremes of the gender role continuum | unidimensional continuum, communion, agency |
| In regards to this continuum 'abnormality' can be defined as not sticking to the correct ____ of the gener role ________ for ones physiological sex | end, continuum |
| What is this describing? "an overwhelming desire to belong to the opposite sex. Desire to e the opposite sex" | Transexualism |
| What is this describing? "the condition of having an abnormal desire to dress in the clothes of the opposite sex" | Transvestism |
| What is this describing? "when an individual's identity does not conform unambiguously to conventional notions of male and female gender but combines or moves between them" | Transgendeism |
| What does GID stand for? | Gender Identity disorder |
| What age does GID have to be detected before? | Age 3 years old |
| GID is defined by behaviour plus....? | attitude |
| Functional impairment for GID must be significant stress or impairment in...? | social, occupational or other important areas of functioning |
| There are 3 main criteria for GID. What are they? And then write them out. | 1. Strong and persistent cross gender identification (desire to be the other sex) 2. Persistent discomfort about ones sex 3. No physical intersex condition - no other condition can fit. |
| There is a prevelance of 1 in 5000 with the desire for sex reassignment and this is mainly going from _____ to _______? | males to females |
| Sex reassignment can only be obtained after....? | living as the sex that they wish to become for 12 months and taking relevant sex hormone supplements for 6 months |
| Surgeries mainly consist of..? | Bone shaving or augmentation, breast implantation or removal or genital inversion |
| Why is sex reassignment not called sex change? | Because it is not changing the sex, it is just aligning the sex with what they feel is their sex in their head. |
| If they feel unhappy about their sex and say that they will be happy if they have the surgery then this brings about the idea of....? | constantly wanting to improve things |
| Surgeons insist that people are transvestites before they...? | have the surgery |
| What is the problem with medicalizing gender? | Surgeons see it as a black and white process - it creates a direct pathway for changing sex BUT some people want to go back and forth and maintain organs so that they can have babies/conceive. |
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