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Terminology – Sex and Gender

Terminology – Sex and Gender. (These terms will be on your test.) ?. Sex / Gender. Sex (biological) Gender (cultural construction) Sexual Orientation (based on erotic attraction)

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Terminology – Sex and Gender

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  1. Terminology – Sex and Gender (These terms will be on your test.) ?

  2. Sex / Gender • Sex (biological) • Gender (cultural construction) • Sexual Orientation (based on erotic attraction) • Gender Identity (a person’s own sense of identification—usually with societal norms of male or female, but sometimes other) – example: someone who feels like a lesbian stuck in a man’s body might be categorized as “heterosexual” but does not identify that way. • Homosexual acts are not the same as sexual orientation or gender identity. • Intersex: born with chromosomal and/or physiological anomalies and/or ambiguous genitalia (thousands of babies each year—doctors have traditionally pressured parents into surgery soon after birth, without child’s consent, like genital mutilation). • Misnomer: Hermaphrodite (19th Century) based on the belief that these people were both male and female.

  3. Transgender Terminology • Transgender (umbrella that includes anyone who crosses gender boundaries--including androgynous, transexual and transvestite as well as many others) • Androgyny: Having neither or both masculine and/or feminine characteristics. Does not necessarily indicate a sexual orientation or gender identity. • Long hair for men and pants for women were once thought to be radical disrupters of social order.

  4. Transgender Terminology Cont. • Transvestites cross-dress. Does not necessarily indicate a sexual orientation or gender identity. • Transsexuals do not identify with the sex to which they have been assigned.Transvestite Beauty Pageant (left)

  5. Homoesexual / heterosexual (19th Century)Heterosexism: The assumption that being heterosexual is the only 'normal' and 'correct' type of lifestyle • LGBT (or GLBT) expands that to Lesbian/Gay/Bi/ Trans • Queer Theory expands that to diverse sexualities/identities (1990’s) Queer: a re-appropriated term used to describe a sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression that does not conform to heteronormative society. • “Genderqueer”: being outside of heteronormative society—idea that we’re all gender queer) • “Genderfuck”: performance intended to subvert normative gender roles (1974, Christopher Lonc) • LGBTIQ - Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Trans/Intesex/Queer SEXUALITY MODELS

  6. Sex Reassignment Surgery(not sex change) Might still be a misnomer if transgendered people are being pressured into having surgery in order to fit into a two-sex society.

  7. Female-to-Male Most women do not actually want to have the lower genital surgery—some do it because they cannot legally marry otherwise in some states; others elect it.Metoidioplasty: clitoris is released from the skin that holds it down and enlarged via hormones. Urethera can be lengthened and rerouted and prosthetic testes created with labia minora. Phaloplasty: (more complex, less successful, but larger penis created through skin grafting)Other Surgeries:Masectomy, other.WARNING: PHOTO OF GENITALS AFTER METOIDIOPLASTY NEXT (fully healed, no blood)

  8. Genitals Before and After Metoidioplastyhttp://plasticsurgeryphotos.blogspot.com/2007/10/sex-change-surgery-before-and-after.html

  9. Male-to-Female Much more social pressure on men to have the lower genitals altered.Vaginoplasty and Labiaplasty(same names that are used for the surgeries to modify female genitals, but radically different procedure)Vaginoplasty: Vagina is crafted, penis is inverted, part of penis is used to craft a clitoris. Sensation varies. Labiaplasty: Vulva is crafted (usually in a second surgery) Aesthetically flawless—not perceptably different from a woman.Other SurgeriesVoice Feminization, Breast Implants, Tracheal Shaving, Jaw Contouring, Hair Removal, etc. NO PHOTOS NEEDED (appears same as woman)

  10. Questions?

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