Research the following terms:
Sex
Gender
Assigned gender
Gender identity
Gender roles and gender role learning
Sexual orientation
Based on your understanding, address the following:
Explain how these terms are different from each other.
Provide an explanation of the perspectives that influence sexual orientation with regard to the assigned
gender, gender identity, and gender roles. For example, what did you learn as a child as it relates to "what
it means to be a boy or a girl in our society"? Where you influenced by gender role socialization?
Provide a description of the process of gender role learning at all stages of development from childhood
through adolescence. What do you think are the major socialization influences throughout the process,
and the changes, if any, in contemporary roles and encoded sexual scripts of gender and gender theory?
Explain how gender role learning applies here, if it does
Gender Dysphoria an intense, continuous discomfort resulting from an individual's sense of the
inappropriateness of their assigned gender at birth and the resulting gender role expectations. It is also a
clinical psychological diagnosis that offends many in transgender communities, and an individual is often
required to receive medical supervision of treatments relating to transition like hormones or surgery
research, address the following questions:
What is your understanding about Gender Dysphoria and transsexuality? Provide an example of each.
Has this understanding change or changed your attitude, perceptions, or views about these gender roles?
Why or why not?
Can you think of ways in which you encourage social influences that impact the development of gender
orientation from early childhood? Would you dress a little boy in a pink shirt? How do you think cartoons
and movies impact gender stereotypes?
What dilemmas do parents of intersex individuals face? What does "gender neutral" mean?
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