Gender is the same as sex
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Definitions
Sexual orientation
An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people. Note: an individual’s sexual orientation is independent of their gender identity.
Gender identity
One's innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One's gender identity can be the same or unlike from their sex assigned at birth.
Gender expression
External appearance of one's gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, body characteristics or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine.
Transgender
An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth. Being transgender does not imply any specific sexual orientation. Therefore, transgender people may identify as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual,
What Do We Mean By Sex and Gender?
At Women’s Health Research at Yale, we are committed to advancing the health of a diverse society. We do this in immense measure by studying the health of women and the similarities and differences in health outcomes between and among women and men. As we pursue our work, it is particularly important to verb language that captures the different concepts of sex and gender so that our science and our findings can be more precise and better aid everyone.
What do we mean by sex and gender? Aren't these terms interchangeable? They are not, and this is why.
In , a committee convened by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a nonprofit think tank that took on issues of importance to the national health, addressed the question of whether it mattered to study the biology of women as well as men.
The IOM, now embedded within the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), concluded there was more than sufficient evidence that, beyond reproductive biology, there were major differences in the biology of women and men that greatly affecte
Of mice, men and women
It was , and some of Amy Braun’s lab mice weren’t behaving normally. This was very exciting.
Rather than scampering about investigating their surroundings and introducing themselves to other mice, whiskers quivering, they eschewed social interactions and ran in circles. Placed into a water tank, they appeared disoriented and confused. Unlike their peers, they swam hesitantly along the walls, unable to locate and remember the location of a platform secret underneath the surface. They were pale shadows of their mousey selves.
It was exactly what the researchers, who were studying brain development in autism and schizophrenia, had expected to see. But there was just one — major — hitch.
“We realized, when we looked more closely,” says Braun, “that we were seeing this aberrant behavior only in male mice. The females behaved like our control animals. We thought, ‘Well, this is sort of weird.’ Later we realized that the weird thing was that we actually looked at the female animals at all.”
At the period, many researchers focused their studies only on male lab ani
Title: Sex and Gender: Adj or Different?
Author: Milton Diamond
Published in: Feminism & Psychology, Volume 10 (1): ,
Note: Computer version
Along the primrose path of childhood children learn something fundamental. At a most basic level they incorporate that Dads and Moms are designations with very different implications. Up front, it is accepted that Dads are men and Moms are women; that Dads and Moms act different things at noun and elsewhere. Simultaneously children learn that boys compete rough and girls act nice and they usually like to do adj things. Then kids acquire that boys grow up to be Dads and girls grow up to be Moms.
Interestingly, this is the standard pattern children incorporate even when they know these rules own exceptions. They almost always know families where its Mom who is the outside-the-home money earner and Dad who stays abode, and where boys are nice and quiet while girls are hellions. The basic stereotypes, however, sound somehow branded on their psyche in the every day course of growing up. The input is from family, friends, media,