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DC Psych Ch4

Sex, gender, and sexuality

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Sex the biologically influenced characteristics by which people define "male", "female", and "intersex"
Gender the behavioral characteristics that people associate with "boy", "girl", "man", and "woman".
Intersex possessing male and female biological sexual characteristics at birth.
Testosterone The most important male sex hormone. Both males and females have it, but larger amounts of it exist in males and stimulate male sex organ growth during the fetal period, and male sex characteristic development during puberty.
Estrogens Sex hormones, such as estradiol, that contribute to female sex characteristics and are secreted in greater amounts by females than males.
Gender role A set of expected behaviors, attitudes, and traits for men and women
Gender identity our personal sense of being male, female, neither, or some combination of male and female
Androgyny Blending traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine psychological characteristics.
Transgender An umbrella term describing people whose gender identity and/or expression differs from that associated with their birth-assigned sex.
Cisgender Gender identity which corresponds with birth-assigned sex.
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