sex and gender

• what is sex?


  Sex is the biological status as a male or a female, it is innate and fixed at birth
• what is gender?

  gender is the psychosexual status as a male or female which affects behaviours, attitudes and sex roles
• what is gender dysphoria?

  gender dysphoria is the mismatch between sex and gender
• what are sex-role stereotypes?

  sex-role stereotypes is a shared set of expectations about what is acceptable behaviour for males and females within a society