What is gender Gender refers to the attitudes feelings and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person Gender is a social construct humans made it up Globally there are hundreds of cultures with ID: 918371
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A quick note on gender and sex in Laney Biology classes
What is gender?
Gender refers to the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that
a given culture associates with a person.
Gender is a social construct, humans made it up. Globally, there are hundreds of cultures with multiple gender identities.
So what is sex?
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Slide2Your textbook says a biological male is XY and a biological female is XX.In reality, there is a lot of biological variation!Some factors we use to describe biological sex:
Sex chromosomes
Hormone productionSexual organs
Production of eggs, sperm or variations of thoseFEMALE
MALE
INTERSEX
Slide3Gender Unicorn
Slide4In reality, there is a lot of biological variation!
Slide5ReferencesGroups with support materialhttps://laney.edu/laneyqueers/
www.transstudent.orgwww.oaklandlgbtqcenter.org
Definitional References
https://uwm.edu/lgbtrc/support/gender-pronouns/www.who.int/genomics/gender/en/index1.html newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/male-or-female www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/201611/when-sex-and-gender-don-t-match
www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyond-xx-and-xy-the-extraordinary-complexity-of-sex-determinationwww.nature.com/news/sex-redefined-1.16943