Differences in gender aggression and social connectedness are affected by environmental and parental influences. The culture that shapes us often has negative effects on those who’s gender identity don’t fit into its’ parameters. Even for those who do fit the stereotypes created by groupthink, biological differences can be harmful to both men and women. We are all born with the genetic makeup to make us the way we are, but humanistic psychology pushes that people also have the ability to become better and to reach out maximum potential. When put in the context of gender it means people can overcome offensive connotations and slurs that hold them back mentally as well as changing themselves to reflect what they feel they should be.
Gender ID …show more content…
For people who don’t know what gender they are, who have the “wrong” genitalia for their gender, or for females, sayings like these can be devastating and demoralizing to hear from a friend or loved one. Not everyone is born with 10 fingers and 10 toes, and for an unlucky few these birth defects must seem like a small imposition. Those who are born intersex have altered combinations of male and female physical features. Genetic males can be born with ‘normal’ hormones and testicles, but without a penis or with a smaller one (David Myers, 2014). For these people, the line drawn by society can be blurry and it can be difficult to tell where they belong, “One study reviewed 14 cases of boys who had undergone early sex-reassignment surgery and had been raised as girls. Of those cases, six had later declared themselves as males, five were living as females, and three had an unclear gender identity” (Reiner and Gearheart, 2014). Gender can be defined as, “…the socially constructed role and characteristics by which your culture defines male and female”, (David Myers, 2014). Culture can make a “man” more belligerent and a “woman” more fostering, but in a roundabout way. Boys play with toy guns not only because they are pressured into it, but also because of hormonal influence that in turn reinforces the …show more content…
This hormone starts the development of external male sex organs (David Myers, 2014). For women (XX) the absence of the master switch means the production of the ovaries that then produce estrogens and progesterone, as well as their sex organs.
Gender vs Sex
Gender and sex have been linked for as long as the idea of ancient Greeks, who believed that at the beginning of human creation, people had twice as many body parts as humans do today. These composites could be two men, two women, or a man and woman. Even though the idea would be considered a bit crazy by today’s standards people still use gender and sex as though they were synonyms. Webster’s dictionary defined gender as, “the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex”, (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender 2015
Gender ID …show more content…
For people who don’t know what gender they are, who have the “wrong” genitalia for their gender, or for females, sayings like these can be devastating and demoralizing to hear from a friend or loved one. Not everyone is born with 10 fingers and 10 toes, and for an unlucky few these birth defects must seem like a small imposition. Those who are born intersex have altered combinations of male and female physical features. Genetic males can be born with ‘normal’ hormones and testicles, but without a penis or with a smaller one (David Myers, 2014). For these people, the line drawn by society can be blurry and it can be difficult to tell where they belong, “One study reviewed 14 cases of boys who had undergone early sex-reassignment surgery and had been raised as girls. Of those cases, six had later declared themselves as males, five were living as females, and three had an unclear gender identity” (Reiner and Gearheart, 2014). Gender can be defined as, “…the socially constructed role and characteristics by which your culture defines male and female”, (David Myers, 2014). Culture can make a “man” more belligerent and a “woman” more fostering, but in a roundabout way. Boys play with toy guns not only because they are pressured into it, but also because of hormonal influence that in turn reinforces the …show more content…
This hormone starts the development of external male sex organs (David Myers, 2014). For women (XX) the absence of the master switch means the production of the ovaries that then produce estrogens and progesterone, as well as their sex organs.
Gender vs Sex
Gender and sex have been linked for as long as the idea of ancient Greeks, who believed that at the beginning of human creation, people had twice as many body parts as humans do today. These composites could be two men, two women, or a man and woman. Even though the idea would be considered a bit crazy by today’s standards people still use gender and sex as though they were synonyms. Webster’s dictionary defined gender as, “the behavioral, cultural, or psychological traits typically associated with one sex”, (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gender 2015