Sex and Gender

• SEX

  ▪ It is the label – male or female – that you are assigned by a doctor at birth based on your genitals you are born with and the hormones and chromosomes that you have. (It goes on your birth certificate)
• GENDER

  ▪ It is the meaning (personal traits and social positions) that a society attached to being a male or a female.

  ▪ It is the range of characteristics pertaining to and differentiating between masculinity and femininity.
• INTERSEX

  ▪ These are people born with some biological characteristics that are considered “female” and others that are considered “male”
• GENDER SOCIALIZATION

  is the process by which individuals are informed about the norms and behaviors associated with their assigned sex, usually during childhood development.
• DIMENSIONS OF GENDER

  BODY

  IDENTITY

  EXPRESSION
• GENDER IDENTITY

  It is the innermost concept of self as a male, female, or a blend of the two. It is how the individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves
• GENDER EXPRESSION

  refers to the external appearance of one’s gender identity , usually expressed through behavior, clothing, body characteristics or voice, and which may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being masculine or feminine.
• SEXUAL ORIENTATION

  An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to other people. It is who you are attracted to and want to have a relationship with
• LGBTQQIAAP

  L -  lesbian

  G -  gay

  B -  bisexual

  T -  transgender

  Q -  queer

  Q -  questioning

  I -  intersex

  A -  allies

  A - asexual

  P -  pansexual
• SOGIESC

  Stands for SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY AND EXPRESSION, SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS
• PATRIARCHY

  It is a system for maintaining class, gender, racial, and heterosexual privilege and the status quo of power – relying both on crude forms of oppression, like violence; and subtle ones, like laws; to perpetuate inequality.
• SEXISM

  It’s a hierarchical thinking which can be conscious and hostile, or it can be unconscious. A belief that one sex is innately superior to the other.
• FEMINISM

  ▪ A range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish and achieve political, economic, personal and social equality of sexes.
• Types of Feminism

  1. Liberal Feminism
  2. Radical Feminism
  3. Socialist - Marxist Feminism
  4. Cultural Feminism
• WOMEN EMPOWERMENT

  promoting women’s sense of self worth, their ability to determine their own choices, and their right to influence social change for themselves

  and others.
• GENDER SENSITIVITY

  to understand and give consideration to socio-cultural norms and discrimination in order to acknowledge the different rights, roles, and responsibilities of men and women in the community and the relationships between them.
• GENDER MAINSTREAMING

   is the major global strategy for ensuring that the government pursues gender equality in all aspects of the development process to achieve the vision of a gender-responsive society where women and men equally contribute and benefit from the development.
• 3 COMPONENTS THAT DETERMINE SEX

  1. Genitals
  2. Chromosomes
  3. Hormones
• CISGENDER

  Refers to someone who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth.
• TRANSGENDER

  Refers to someone who does not identify with the gender they were assigned at birth.
• NON-BINARY

  Refers to someone who does not identify as exclusively male or female.
• GENDER FLUID

  Refers to someone whose gender identity changes over time from one end of the spectrum to the other
• GENDERQUEER

  Refers to someone whose gender identify falls on the spectrum between male and female