1. https://emedicine.medscape.

com/article/917990-overview#a2

Gender and sex are not interchangeable terms, neither are gender development and sexual
development interchangeable. Physiologic sexual development progresses through distinct stages from
the neonatal period through infancy, childhood, puberty and adolescence, and adulthood. Such
physiologic change is distinguishable from gender-related behaviors during each of these stages. The
sexual identity that emerges beyond childhood is very clearly a separate entity from gender identity.
Aspects of physical sexual growth, eroticism, and eventual sexuality, although closely related to gender,
should not necessarily be used to draw conclusions about a patient's gender definitions.

The gender identity of a fetus, and later of an infant, is still incomplete by definition. Until a self-
conceptualization of such an identity can take place, it remains in flux. At the same time, current
research indicates that, because of the expected hormonal exposure secondary to genetic sex, all
newborns probably have a certain gender bias toward a particular gender identity. Predicting this based
on external anatomy or on other factors is not completely accurate because no specific means exist to
verify the presupposition. In a small minority of newborns, it is also possible that the gender bias is
neutral, in which case it may remain so or may be modified via environmental and epigenetic (or other
gene-influencing) mechanisms.

A significant environmental role begins in gender development, as the parents usually rear the child as
either male of female, with all of the associated social interactions. In recent years, the prevailing notion
once fostered by John Money of Johns Hopkins University, that gender identity is malleable during the
first years of life, after which it becomes irreversible, has been challenged. Whether particular gender
identity is truly an inborn characteristic, or even if it remains unchangeable through the course of an
individual's lifetime, has not yet been determined.

Several studies by Milton Diamond of the University of Hawaii indicate that gender development
reaches a critical point during childhood, after which it becomes extremely difficult to modify in most
individuals. While there may be a number of children who do not clearly fit into a neat binary model of
gender in which the polar extremes of behavior are reserved for those with clear sex and gender
congruence, it is increasingly clear that gender identity is at the very least an intrinsic characteristic that
emerges during early development.

During infancy, gender identity probably remains in the same incomplete stage in which it exists at birth.
At this point, the parents create the gender role, and parental decisions play the largest part in
determining environmental influences.

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http://thepbhscloset.weebly.com/a-list-of-genders--sexualities-and-their-definitions.html

Sex- Your assigned gender at birth and/or the gender of your reproductive organs
Gender- Where you feel that you personally fall on the spectrum between male and female. Commonly
people identify as male or female, but some fall in the middle or move throughout the spectrum.

Romantic Orientation- Who you are romantically attracted to meaning wanting to be in a romantic
relationship with and is unrelated to sexual attraction.
Sexual Orientation- Who you are sexually attracted to meaning who you get turned on by or who you
would want to engage in sexual behaviors with.

Heterosexual- The attraction to a gender different from their own (commonly used to describe someone
who is gender binary [female or male] attracted to the other binary gender).
Homosexual- The attraction to a gender the same as their own (commonly used to describe someone
who is gender binary [female or male] attracted to the same binary gender). Sometimes referred to as
gay.
Lesbian- Women who are attracted only to other women
Bisexual- When you are attracted to two or more genders. This term is generally used to describe being
attracted to men and women, but can apply to being attracted to any two or more genders. Note that
you do not have to be equally attracted to each gender.
Pansexual- When you are attracted to all genders and/or do not concern gender when you are attracted
towards someone
Queer- A reclaimed slur for anybody in the LGBT+ community or who do not identify as cisgender and/or
hetersexual/heteromantic
Transgender- When you identify with a gender different than that you were assigned at birth

4. https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/917990-overview#a2
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/alamo-sociology/chapter/reading-gender-identity/

Gender identity is defined as a personal conception of oneself as male or female (or rarely, both or
neither). This concept is intimately related to the concept of gender role, which is defined as the
outward manifestations of personality that reflect the gender identity. Gender identity, in nearly all
instances, is self-identified, as a result of a combination of inherent and extrinsic or environmental
factors; gender role, on the other hand, is manifested within society by observable factors such as
behavior and appearance. For example, if a person considers himself a male and is most comfortable
referring to his personal gender in masculine terms, then his gender identity is male. However, his
gender role is male only if he demonstrates typically male characteristics in behavior, dress, and/or
mannerisms. But individuals who identify with the role that is the different from their biological sex are
called transgender. Transgender is not the same as homosexual, and many homosexual males view both
their sex and gender as male. Transgender males are males who have such a strong emotional and
psychological connection to the feminine aspects of society that they identify their gender as female.

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