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Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation

Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation. Sex Vs. Gender. Sex is based on a person’s biological features Gender is used in different ways: Gender roles – behavioral characteristics considered “masculine” or “feminine”

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Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation

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  1. Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation

  2. Sex Vs. Gender • Sex is based on a person’s biological features • Gender is used in different ways: • Gender roles – behavioral characteristics considered “masculine” or “feminine” • Gender identity – internal sense of ourselves as man, woman, or transgender

  3. Biological Sex: Chromosome Abnormalities

  4. Biological Sex: XX or XY Each parent contribute a chromosome and sometimes things go wrong. For example women give an X chromosome and the father can give either an X or Y. Fetuses are undifferentiated for sex until 8 weeks when the Y chromosome causes the body to secrete testosterone and the body forms male genitalia. Hypothalamus and Pituitary glandsregulate secretions of hormones by gonads in the ovaries and testes In females, the hormone is estrogen. In males, it is androgen/testosterone.

  5. Prenatal Hormone Abnormalities Andrenogenital Syndrome (AGS) Too much androgen is released to the fetus. Not a problem if you’re a male but females are masculine. Genitalia will masculinize and more like a tomboy. Androgen Insensitivity syndrome (AIS) Baby doesn’t detect androgen. Boys don’t masculinize they develop female (XY) No internal sex organs They are XY females. At puberty they grow breasts but do not menstruate.

  6. Gender • Our race, class, geographical, physical, and sexual identities affect and shape our gender and may change over time. • It may not remain the same from birth to death.

  7. Gender Identity • There are new terms that fall outside the two gender categories our society has traditionally recognized: man and woman • Transgender – a person who identifies with or expresses a gender identity that differs from the one which corresponds to the person's sex at birth • Transsexual - a person who strongly identifies with the opposite sex and may seek to live as a member of this sex especially by undergoing surgery and hormone therapy to obtain the necessary physical appearance

  8. Sexual Orientation

  9. Sexual Orientation • Our gender is about who we are; our sexual orientation is about whom we find attractive. • How we identify our gender influences how we name our sexuality, and whom we are attracted to may change throughout our lives.

  10. “Some of us choose not to label our sexuality at all. It’s important not to assume that we know another person’s sexual orientation or identity.”

  11. Types of Orientation • Straight/ Heterosexual • Gay and Lesbian/ Homosexual • Bisexual • Asexual – someone who is not experiencing or acting on sexual attraction at a give time • Pansexual – someone who is attracted to people across the range of genders

  12. Don’t confuse sexual orientation with gender identity!

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