SEXUAL SELF (UTS)

• The self-sexual self refers to the biological identity, which is determined by chromosomes, physical manifestations, and hormonal influences.
• Biological identity determines the biological status of male or female.
• Gender refers to the social and cultural identity, which societies and individuals attach to.
• Gender roles are societal expectations for gender roles.
• Gender identity is the psychological perception of self as male or female, composed by hormonal levels and interpretation.
• Gender expression demonstrates gender based on traditional roles, including acts, dress, behavior, and interaction.
• Biological sex refers to objectively measurable organs, hormones, and chromosomes, such as vagina, ovaries, XX chromosomes for females, and penis, testes, XY chromosomes for males.
• Sexual orientation is based on physical, spiritual, emotional attraction, and is based on sex/gender, such as heterosexual, bisexual, homosexual.
• Gender socialization involves the adoption of gender-appropriate clothes, toys, and hairstyles, and society's expectations of gender roles.
• Gender typing is the process of a child acquiring their gender identity and adopting culturally appropriate motives, values, behaviors.
• Gender-role standards define gender-appropriate behavior for each sex, discuss expected behavior of males and females, and reflect stereotypes used to categorize and respond to each sex.
• Expressive roles in female society are social prescriptions for cooperativeness, kindness, nurturance, and sensitivity, assumed expressive roles for girls.
• Instrumental roles in male society are social prescriptions for dominance, independence, assertiveness, competitiveness, goal-orientedness, assumed expressive roles for boys.
• Girls show superior verbal abilities, with girls acquiring language and verbal skills earlier than boys.
• Boys outperform girls in verbal strategies tests.
• Boys show a small but consistent advantage over girls in arithmetic reasoning tests.
• Boys are more physically and verbally aggressive than girls, starting as early as age 2.
• Girls appear more fearful or timid in uncertain situations than boys.
• Boys are more likely to display one emotion (anger) from toddlerhood onwards.
• Boys are more physically vulnerable to prenatal and perinatal hazards and effects of diseases.
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• Girls are more compliant with requests and demands from early in the preschool period.
• Development of gender identity involves understanding one's gender as an unchanging attribute.
• SEX: The classification of a person as male or female, influenced by chromosomes, genes, hormones, reproductive organs, and secondary sex characteristics.
• GENDER IDENTITY: A person's internal identification as male, female, or something in between.
• GAY: A person who is attracted, emotionally and/or physically, to someone of the same gender.
• GENDER: A social construct classifying a person as a man, woman, or other identity.
• Incongruence must persist for about 2 years.
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• GENDER DYSPHORIA: Strong preference for another gender than the one assigned at birth.
• SEXUAL ORIENTATION: An enduring emotional and/or physical attraction to other people.
• Klinefelter Syndrome: A male fetus with a supernumerary X chromosome, resulting in masculine external genitalia.
• SOGIE: An acronym for sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
• Turner Syndrome: A missing or structurally abnormal X chromosome, leading to premature ovarian insufficiency and infertility.
• Includes strong desire to be different gender, dislike of sexual anatomy, and fantasy play, toy, games, or activities typical of the experienced gender.
• QUEER: An adjective used by some people, particularly younger people, whose sexual orientation is not exclusively heterosexual.
• Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him." - Tariq Ramadan
• CHILDHOOD GENDER INCONGRUENCE OF CHILDHOOD: Marked incongruence between experienced/expressed gender and assigned sex in pre-pubertal children.
• Klinefelter Syndrome is often diagnosed at puberty due to incomplete pubertal development, testes failure, incomplete virilization, low serum testosterone levels, and infertility.
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