What is Sex/Gender?

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The International Olympic Committee decided that, for the London Olympic Games, the rule of sex would be based on _____.

Functional Androgens

Color-coding for boys and girls once quite openly served the purpose of:

Helping young children learn gender distinctions

According to sociologist Jo Paoletti, even five-year-old children were being dressed in more-or-less unisex white dresses until the end of the nineteenth century.

True

Androgens naturally occur in both male and female bodies.

True

In the recent past, the U.S. government funded research into the best treatments for norm-transcending kids.

True

Now a days, children are born into a world in which gender neutralism is continually emphasized through conventions of dress, appearance, language, color, segregation, and symbols.

false

One of intersex genital mutilation's basic rules is that:

any infant who might one day be able to become pregnant as an adult must be made into a female

Developmental psychologists Carol Martin and Diane Ruble suggest that children:

become gender detectives in search of clues as to the implications of belonging to the male or female tribe.

Which of the following trends in drawing distinctions in identities is demonstrated in the history of liberal democracy in the United States?

A trend away from using anatomy to draw distinctions where social and political rights are concerned

Intersex genital mutilation refers to _____.

Cosmetic genital cutting

Which of the following forces had altered the clothing styles of infants?

Effort to remove gender differences

Hermaphrodite is an accurate and current term to describe a person with both sets of genitals.

False

In Gender Identity Disorder, only those above 18 years of age are made to undergo treatment that includes behavioral modification, confinement to psychiatric wards, and psychotropic medication.

False

Studies have shown that children are oblivious to gender typical roles in their toddler years and start to pick up the rudiments of gender stereotyping at the age of eight.

False

The athletes who are targeted by the International Olympic Committee's policy on "female hyperandrogenism" include women born with complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome.

False

The women's rights movement, the civil rights movement, the disability rights movement—all have supported the idea that anatomical difference should mean some people are treated as more worthy of rights and resources than others.

False

Which of the following groups is yet to "set" into a socially recognized identity?

Intersex

Which of the following is one of the problems with the International Olympic Committee's new biologically-oriented policy?

It appears to be out of whack with another policy known as "the Stockholm Consensus."

According to Riki Wilchins, which of the following statements is true of the nature of Science that has attached itself to herm-bodies?

It is interested in the most urgent way with preserving the universality of Sex.

Intersex advocacy organizations like Intersex Society of North America and GenderPAC advocate:

Raising Intersex children without a sex.


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