Gender Identity, Gender Expression And Biological Sex

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In this essay I will be discussing gender and all the elements around gender, I will also look at gender identity, gender expression and biological sex.
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between masculinity and femininity. Depending on the context, these characteristics may include biological sex. However in other contexts, including some areas of social sciences, gender includes sex or replaces it. For instance, in non-human animal research, gender is commonly used to refer to the biological of the animals. This conversion in the meaning of gender can be traced to the 1980s. In 1993 the USA’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) started to use gender instead of sex. Later, in 2011, the FDA reversed its …show more content…

This view proposes that in gender studies, the term gender should be used to refer to the social and cultural constructions of masculinities and femininities, and not to the state being a female or a male in its entireness. Gender includes gender roles, which are expectations society and people have about behaviors, thoughts, and characteristics that go along with a person’s assigned sex. For example, ideas about how men and women are expected to behave, dress, and communicate all contribute to gender. In the past people tend to have very clear ideas about what was appropriate to each sex and anyone behaving differently was regarded as abnormal. Today we accept a lot more diversity and see gender as a continuum rather than two categories. Therefore men can show feminine side and women can also show their masculine traits. Donald …show more content…

Some people especially those who identify as agender, neutrois, and intergender may wish to avoid all traits associated with gender which can be difficult to do in a society based on the gender binary.
Biological sex is a label that one is given at birth based on medical factors, including your hormones, chromosomes, and genitals. Most people are assigned male or female. When your sexual and reproductive anatomy doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male, they may be described as intersex. Some people call the sex we are assigned at birth “biological sex” but this term doesn’t fully capture the complex biological, anatomical and chromosomal variations that can occur. Having only two options biological male or biological female might not describe what is going on inside a person’s

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