Chapter 2: Bodies and Genders

Mestiza

*A person who live with multiple competing, conflicting, and interconnected identities and uses the insights of her position and experience to challenge the boundaries between different cultures, race ethnicities, and genders.

Transgender umbrella

*An umbrella that includes all non-cisgenders. *Anyone that rejects the gender norm.

Explain the difference between transgender and intersex.

*Difference: ______ is a person who rejects their assigned sex category and believe that their bodies betray their core identity where as ______ is a person who is neither fully male nor fully female.

Should doctors and/or parents make decisions about biological sex regarding babies and children? Who should make those decisions?

*Doctors and parents do not have the right to decide what gender their children belong to because it is truly unethical to do so. *It should be the children themselves who should decide once they grow up to an age where they can think reasonably and logically.

Transgender FTM

*Female to male.

Is gender a necessary category? Why or why not? What would happen without out? What need to change in our culture, both logistically and in ways of thinking?

*Gender is not a necessary category because throughout history, each human being has a unique set of both biological and environmental aspects that determine their gender in which only the individual themselves would truly know. Because gender can be defined in countless ways in a spectrum, it should not be of large importance of knowing one's identity. *However, without gender, there are people who believe there would be the lost of a sense of order since we all have been first introduced to classify each other by gender. *Nevertheless, a suggestion that can resolve this is that people need to begin to accept others for who they are personality-wise. Sex/gender/sexuality should not matter at all.

Binary gender system

*Idea that factors such as sex, sexuality, and gender can be categorized into two exclusive opposites.

Intersex

*Individuals born with ambiguous genitalia and whose bodies develop sexually along unexpected paths.

Transgender MTF

*Male to female.

What are the five sexes? Might there be more than five sexes? How? What are they?

*Male, female, ferms (ovaries w/ aspects of male genitalia), merms (test w/ aspects of female genitalia), and herms (intersex). *There could be more than five sexes because there are countless unique combinations of genes, hormones, and environments that make up a human being and their sex.

How many possible sexes are there?

*Many along the spectrum.

"the standard story"

*One's biology sex determines one's sexual/social identity. *There are only two sexes: male and female. *The two-sex order is universal; the sex can only be with its opposite.

Gender essentialists

*The belief that sex and sexuality are on the same line as gender.

What is the difference between biological sex, gender, and sexuality?

*______ is the complex of genes, hormones, environment, and behavior with loopback effects between bodies and society. *______ is the social status, a legal designation, and a personal identity. *______ is the lustful desire and emotional attachment.

LGBTQIAP

Lesbian (sexuality) Gay (sexuality) Bisexual (sexuality) Transgender (gender) Queer/Questioning (not normal) Intersex (sexuality; bio sex) Asexual (sexuality) Pansexual (does not base romantic relationships on gender)