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CHAPTER 9 KEY TERMS
| CHAPTER 9 KEY TERMS | Definition |
|---|---|
| sex | Biologically a male or female |
| gender | How a person sees themselves as a male, female, or neither |
| gender identity | The sense of being a boy/girl, man/women |
| gender role | Women= kitchen , men= money makers, the way people think women or men should act because of their gender |
| cisgender | When a male (assigned at birth) feels like a male, a women (assigned at birth) feels like a women |
| sexual differentiation | how a person’s body grows to become male or female. It includes changes that happen because of hormones, making the body look and work like a boy or a girl. |
| intersexuality | when someone is born with body parts or traits that don’t clearly fit as just male or female. Being between male or female. |
| androgen-insensitivity syndrome (AIS) | Genetically male that is assigned female at birth (underdeveloped genitals) |
| congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) | genetically female that is assigned male at birth (ambiguous external genitalia) |
| Klinefelter syndrome | XXY, assigned female at birth but are men with female looks |
| Turner syndrome | XO, assigned female at birth and are infertile |
| sexual dimorphism | Being male or female |
| gender binary | The idea that gender and sex are the same but, it’s on are on a spectrum |
| gender expression | The way people express their gender by their clothes, hair, voice, and walk (gait) |
| transgender | Identification as male, female, or neither that doesn’t match their assigned sex |
| transphobia | Fear and hatred of transgender people |
| gender dysphoria | distress caused but a “disagreement” between gender identity & assigned sex |
| gender confirmation | when someone behaves or dresses like what people expect for their gender. For example, a girl wearing dresses because that’s what is usually expected. |
| androgyny | Being feminine (expressive) and masculine (instrumental) |
| gender stereotypes | The idea of how boys and girls should behave, boys= strong, girls=caring |
| genderism | people NEED to be cisgender, all gender nonconformity is bad or unacceptable |
| gender nonconforming | How a persons gender identity, race, or expression differs from their cultural norms |
| gender variance | when someone expresses their gender differently from typical male or female expectations. |
| DSD | Differences in sex development, an identity label used by some transgender people |
| sexism | prejudice directed toward women |
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