Sex and Gender

• Sex refers to a person's biological Status as either male or female. This is determined by one pair of sex chromosomes (XX for females and XY for males). These chromosomes then influence hormonal differences as well as differences in anatomy, such as reproductive organs, body shape, hair growth, etc.
• Gender refers to a person's psychosocial status as either masculine or feminine. This includes all the attitudes, roles and behaviours that we associate with 'being a man' or 'being a woman' and these are heavily influenced by social norms and cultural expectations - gender is at least partly environmentally determined and therefore due to nurture.
• Some people, however, experience gender dysphoria when their biologically prescribed sex does not reflect the way they feel inside and the gender they identify themselves as being