What Are Different Hormones Affect Gender Identity

There are two categories of biological sex that determine largely which gender your parents will raise you to identify with. When a parent raises a child as male or female, they are helping the child decide who they are going to identify as. This structure could be considered modeling of the animal kingdom. Animals are not able to identify as a specific gender, and so we create their gender based upon sex. This is a An estimated 2- 5% of children have some form of gender disorder in which they do not agree with their assigned sex. There is evidence showing that different hormones and developments in the brain can affect gender identity. With such complex bodies and brains we as a society tend to emulate stereotypes and apply filters to our views. An example of this being that the typical person does not witness a third gender for animals. We gender animals based upon their outward sexual organs because they cannot understand their genders, only their sex. Sex is largely to do with genetics and with phenotype, where gender is the identifying and behavioral part of this.
During prenatal stages exposure to different sex hormones affect the brain's pathways and development. When a female has been exposed to androgens, …show more content…
If an adolescent who has already created their gender identity experiences a phenotypical change that does not fit their identity. They can suffer from anxiety about their image and from body dysmorphia. These sexual changes are more apparent in the teenage years, after identity has already been formed. These changes will most likely not change identity, and necessary changes to the body to help with body image can be made. In some cases, identity can be changed to match the body. It is unlikely that changes in hormones after development will affect sexuality and gender