AMD 165, Sex and Gender, QUIZ 8
According to the reading, Health Impact of Chest Binding Among Transgender Adults, transmasculine people bound their chest for an average of
10 hours a day
According to the reading, Health Impact of Chest Binding Among Transgender Adults, how many transmasculine people experienced one physical negative outcome attributed to binding
97 of transmasculine people
FTM
A female-to-male transsexual or transgender person, or a trans man. Some transgender people reject this term, arguing tat they have always been male and are only making that identity visible. Others feel that such language reinforces an either/or gender system.
Two Spirit
A native American./ First. Nation term for people who blend the masculine and. feminine.
Gender non-conforming
A person who by nature or by choice does not to conform to gender-based expectations of a. society in terms of appearance, identification and/or behavior.
Cross-dresser
A person who wears clothes, make up, etc. that are considered appropriate for another gender but not ones own. "cross-dresser". is preferred term to "transvestite" which some consider a potentially offensive outdated medical term.
Transsexual
A person whose gender identity does not align with. social expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth.
Cisgender
A person. whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth. Sometimes "cis" for short "cisgender" preferred to terms like "biological", "genetic" or "real" man or women.
Intersex
An umbrella term for people who challenge the male/female binary sex system.
Trans/Transgender
An umbrella term for someone whose gender identity or gender expression does not align with social expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth.
People realize they are transgender
At any age
According to the "Gender Terms and Definitions" notes, a person who was assigned female at birth, identifies as a woman and never sways from that identity is
Cisgender
Non-binary
Describes a gender identity that is neither female/women nor male/man; gender identities outside of or beyond binary. Opposing concepts of male and female "genderqueer" and "transgender"
According to the "Gender Terms and Definitions" notes, gender expression refers to
Everything that has to do with communicating gender such as clothing, mannerisms, hairstyles
Gender Expression
Everything we do that communicates our gender to others: clothing hair styles, mannerisms, ways of speaking, roles we take in interactions.
According to the "Gender Terms and Definitions" notes, MTF and FTM are the available identities for transgender people
False
According to the "Gender Terms and Definitions" notes, transexual identifying people always undergo hormone therapy and gender confirmation surgeries.
False
Transphobia
Fear, hatred, intolerance and/or cultural erasure of people who identify. or are perceived as. transgender.
A garment that appears to look like a thong (underwear that covers the front crotch area has a narrow strip of material that passes between the buttocks) and is worn by some transgender women as part of their gender expression
Gaff
Conversion therapy, or counseling aimed at changing someone's gender identity, is
Harmful for Transgender People
Gender Identity
How one sees oneself as a gendered person. Gender identity is one of our intermost concepts of self and is frequently described using terms like "male/men" or "female/women"
According to the "Gender Terms and Definitions" notes, people who exhibit biological and anatomical diversity which might include ambiguous genitalia, having traits of both and female reproductive organs, possessing a chromosomal variance other than XY or XX are
Intersex
Transgender women
Lives as a women today, but was thought to be male when born.
MTF
Male-to-Female transsexual or transgender. person, or a trans woman. Some transgender. people rreject. this term, arguing they have always been female and. are only making that identity visible. See also "FTM"
Intersex
People whose bodies fall in the vast continuum between "male and female"
Transition/ing
Process of changing one's gender. expression to match. ones gender identity.
Drag
Queen, a person who consciously performs feminity, sometimes in an exaggerated/theatrical manner, usually in a show or theatre setting; king, a person who consciously performs masculinity, sometimes an exaggerated/theatrical manner, usually in a show or theatre setting.
An object used by some transgender men, as a part of their gender expression, to be able to standing while urinating.
STP Device
Sex
Social construction of a binary system (male/female) based on a collection of biological traits and factors.
Gender
Social construction of feminity and masculinity, a performance, mannerisms, posture, movement, use of space, vocal tone, loudness.
Transgender
Some people's innate knowledge of who they are is. different from what was initially expected when they were born.
Agender
Someone without a gender. Some identify as a man, a woman, gender fluid, and so on agender person identifies as no gender at all.
Gender non-conforming people
Sometimes identify as transgender
Cisgenderism
The cultural, institutional and individual beliefs and practices that privilege cisgender people and subordinate and denigrate people who are not cisgender.
Gender Binary
The idea that there are only two genders - men/women
Sex assigned at Birth
The sex one is labeled at birth or earlier, generally by a medical. or birthing professional, based on. an exam. of physical characteristics such as genitalia and cultural concepts.
According to the "Gender Terms and Definitions" notes, sex refers to
The social construction of a binary system (male/female) based on a collection of biological traits and factors.
Gender
The social construction of masculinity, femininity, and other gender categories in a. specific culture. It involves gender assignment (gender one is. assigned at birth or earlier), gender roles (social expectations imposed on someone based on their gender) gender attribution. (how others perceive their gender) gender identity (how someone defines their own gender) and gender expression (how someone expresses their. gender).
According to the Understanding Non-Binary People reading, asking a non-binary person what pronouns they use is a way to show respect to their identity.
True
Some transgender people who use an ID that doesn't match their gender or their gender expression face harassment, humiliation, and violence.
True
According to the "Gender Terms and Definitions" notes, the most frequently preferred Native American/First Nation term for people who blend the masculine and feminine
Two spirit
Gender queer
a term used by those who may not identify as male or female, as man or woman, and who are comfortable blurring gender lines.
Sex
based on a collection of biological traits. reproductive organs, chromosomes hormones, secondary sex characteristics
Transgender man
lives as a man today, but thought to be female when born.
