UNIVERSITY OF CALOOCAN CITY

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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

GENDER AND SOCIETY

SUBJECT CODE: GEE 003
TOPIC OR LESSON 9: - The A to Z of Gender and Sexuality
WEEK: 12
SUB-TOPIC/S: Concepts relating to Gender and Sexuality

OVERVIEW OF THE TOPIC

Awareness is a term that can express the starting point of learning.

Being in the state of awareness allows one person to delve deeper into his lifestyle
to unravel his or her current status in the society. Conscious people can change
themselves and their environment thus, this lesson entails the terms and concept
that will alter your perspective on the society. In this lesson, you will encounter new
concepts that will allow you to understand the different gender that are present
in the society. Each student will be given a week to accomplish this self-paced
module. And as you finish this lesson material, you are expected to fully
comprehend and define the concepts in your own words and understanding.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The following outputs are to be expected at the end of this session:

 Students’ active participation during class
 Quiz
 Video analysis

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

1. Define terms and concepts that are related to gender and sexuality;
2. Identify the terms and concept regarding gender and sexuality
3. Differentiate concepts pertaining to gender identities

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 ENGAGE

Three Hints, One Word!

Directions: The teacher will give clues (meaning or example) of a word that
is related to gender or gender identities. The students will try to guess the words
that are being described by the teacher.

EXPLORE

Watch the video entitled "Range of Gender Identities" then, answer the guide
questions below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i83VQIaDlQw

Answer the following questions.

How will you define gender and sex?

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

Why do you think people have different gender preferences?

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________

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 EXPLAIN

A.
 Ace
Short for asexual.
 Agender
The absence of a feeling of gender.
 Ally
Someone who is not part of an oppressed group but positions themselves
as sympathetic to the struggles of that group, and is (hopefully) invested in their
liberation.
 Androgynous
Neither decidedly masculine nor feminine.
 Aphobia
Discrimination against asexual and aromantic people, particularly the
exclusion of asexuals and aromantics from queer communities and discourses.
 Aromantic
Someone who does not experience romantic attraction.
Shortened to ARO.
 Asexual
A sexual orientation defined by a lack of sexual attraction.
Often shortened to ACE.

B.
 BDSM
Acronym for a set of kinky sexual power relations:
B&D (Bondage & Discipline),
D/S (Dominance/submission),
S/M (slave/Master), S&M
(Sadism & Masochism)
 Bisexual
Someone who is attracted to more than one gender,
Someone who is attracted to two or more genders
 Bent
An opposite term to “straight.” Used in the United Kingdom as slang for
“Queer”
 Bi-curious
Someone who considers themselves heterosexual but has a sexual or
romantic “curiosity” toward the same gender

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  Binder
A binder is a piece of clothing designed to bind the chest for a flatter
appearance.
Binding is the practice of flattening one’s chest with clothing or
bandages
 Biphobia
Fear of, or contempt for, bisexuals. Behavior based on those feelings.
A system of oppression in which bisexuals are marginalized and subject to
violence
 Bottom
Bottoming is kink and gay slang for a complementary role to topping.
Bottom is a queer identity.
 Bottom surgery
An informal name for a set of surgeries for trans people which changes
the appearance of their genitals.
 Butch
A queer masculinity.
 Boy pussy
Gay slang for a bottom man’s anus.

C.
 Chosen family
The queer concept of an intimate group of people who are committed to
supporting each other, as society expects our biological families to offer
support.
 Cis gaze
Cis is a Latin for “same.” Cis people will literally stare at trans people (and
people who they perceive as trans), but the cis gaze refers more broadly
to the objectification, dehumanization, tokenization, and fetishization of
trans people by cis people.
 Cis normativity
The assumption that cis people are “normal” and trans people are
“abnormal.”
 Closet
Not telling people, or actively denying, that you are something other than
heterosexual and/or cisgender.
 Coming-out
Declaring your sexuality or gender identity to be other than cisgender and
heterosexual.
 Conversion therapy
Attempts to convert people from queerness into cisheteronormativity
under the guise of spirituality or pseudoscience.

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  Cross-dressing
Someone who dresses as a gender “opposite” to their own.
Interchangeable with “transvestite.”

D.
 Dead name
The use of a trans person’s birth name or old name, which they don’t use
anymore.
 Discreet
Someone who doesn’t want to be outed. Someone who is actively
looking for hookups, but wants to be quiet about it due to apprehension
about being outed or for other reasons.
 Dyke
A reclaimed slur for lesbian.

E.
 Effeminate
A boy or man—or anyone “supposed” to be masculine— who is
perceived as feminine, unmanly, delicate, or overly refined.

F.
 Fag/ faggot
Faggot is an insult intended to name and shame men who have sex with
men, but actually it labels anyone who’s seen as a gender
nonconforming man as a failure of (or traitor to) masculinity.
 Femme
A queer femininity. A queer identity.
Femme is distinct from feminine.
Femme arose out of working-class lesbian bar culture, as a counter point
to butch. Femme meant “a lesbian whose appearance and behavior are
traditionally feminine.”
 Feminine
Characteristics associated with women and girls, in opposition to men
and boys. These include behaviors, aesthetics, and character attributes,
as well as objects and professions which are gendered as being “for girls.”
 Feminism
A diverse political movement which purports that men and women have
equal value.
 Fetish
The sexual arousal from a non-sexual object, body part, or scenario.

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  Front hole
Alternative term for vagina, used by trans people who were assigned
female.

G.

 Gay
An umbrella term for homosexual, same-sex attracted, and LGBT+. A
reclaimed slur.
 Gay culture
A diverse culture built and reproduced by queers through a shared
alienation by cisheteronormativity
 Gender
Gender is a feeling of affinity, a set of relations (hierarchy), and an alleged
mark of biological difference (sex) and social difference (sexuality, under
heteronormativity).
 Gendered
To assign a gender to a person, aesthetic, object, or behavior. Names,
colors, occupations, clothing, and bodies are all gendered.
 Gender dysphoria
A feeling of incongruence between the gendered self and the body, or
how the body is gendered.
 Gender fluid
A gender fluid person could move seamlessly between two or more
genders—this could be more like steps than seamless movement, but as a
whole it feels “fluid.”
 Gender identity
Could also just be called “gender.”
 Genderqueer
A term for people who feel that “man” or “woman” are insufficient to
describe their gender.
 GRS
GENITAL RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY (GRS) — A set of medical procedures
to alter or reconstruct the genitals, with the goal of alleviating dysphoria.

H.
 Hermaphrodite
An outdated term, often regarded as a slur, for intersex people. It has
been reclaimed by some intersex people.
 Heteroflexible
A sexual orientation which is “mostly” heterosexual but “flexible.”

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  Heteronormativity
The assumption that heterosexuality is normal and natural, and that other
sexualities, or lack of sexuality, are abnormal and unnatural.
The expectation that sex is exclusively defined by vaginal penetration by
a penis.
 Homophobia
Fear of, or contempt for, people who are gay, lesbian, LGBT+, or queer.
Behavior based on those feelings. A system of oppression in which LGBT+
people are marginalized and subject to violence.

I.
 Intersex
One of several contested terms to describe someone born with a
combination of physical characteristics typically associated with `
exclusively maleness or femaleness (e.g., chromosomes, genitalia, and
gonads).

J.
 Jock
An athletic archetype of masculinity, usually associated with team sports,
muscled bodies, and the gym.

K.
 Kink
Unconventional or deviant sexual practices.
Kinky practices include bondage, power play, pain, and humiliation for
sexual pleasure, cross-dressing, unconventional role-playing, and anything
widely considered non-normative.
 Kinsey Scale
A scale of 0 to 6 designed to represent where on a spectrum between
“exclusively heterosexual” and “exclusively homosexual” someone is at
the time when they respond. It was developed by Alfred Kinsey and first
published in 1948.

L.
 Lesbian
A woman who is sexually or romantically attracted to women

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M.
 Male gaze
The objectification of women and non-binary people by men.
 Male privilege
The lack of structural oppression from patriarchy. Freedom from misogyny
and sexism.
 Masochism
A sexual interest in relinquishing control and being subject to the will of
another person, possibly including the use of pain, humiliation, and/or
abuse.
 Matriarchy
A system of society or government ruled by a woman or women.
 Misogyny
The hatred of, and discrimination toward, women and things associated
with womanhood and femininity; the subjugation of women and non-men
under patriarchy.
 Misandry
Dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against men (i.e. the male
sex)

N.
 Nancy Boy
Pejoratives for a queer or effeminate man, sometimes reclaimed by the
people they target.
 Non-Binary
A gender identity which does not fit within the gender binary

O
 Out
Being openly gay, queer, or trans. It can also mean to be open about
another marginalized status (e.g., sex worker)

P
 Pansexual
Attraction to multiple genders.
Attraction to all genders.
Attraction to people regardless of gender.

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  Paraphilia
Paraphilias are often very common desires, practiced consensually, but
they are still framed as “abnormal” or “dysfunctional.”
 Patriarchy
A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is
head of the family and descent is traced through the male line.
 Pride
A movement to celebrate queer culture and combat stigma around
queerness. An annual parade to this end, and to commemorate the
Stonewall riots and other moments of queer resistance.
 Pussy
Slang for vagina. It is also a derogatory word meaning feminine,
effeminate, or weak. Pussy is also used by some people to describe their
anus, because it affirms their gender in a reclamation of their body and
the ways they have sex.

Q
 Queen
An exaggerated expression of femininity, typically subversive because it’s
being performed by people who are not allowed to access it (queer and
trans people, sometimes cishet men).
A description of someone queer.
 Queer
A deliberately elusive word to describe a non-heterosexual or non-
cisgender identity. It can mean gay or LGBTIA+, or be in direct opposition
to them. A reclaimed slur.

R.
 Rainbow flag
The iconic rainbow flag has been a symbol of the LGBT+ movement since
its creation in 1978 by artist Gilbert Baker.
 Rape culture
The systemic normalization of rape, the encouragement of people to
rape, and the dismissal of survivors of rape.

S.
 Sadism
Sexual interest in being cruel, or inflicting pain or humiliation.

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  Safe sex
Informed sexual practice which accounts for pregnancy prevention and
mitigates the risks of sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
 Safe space
A positive space which explicitly does not tolerate homophobia,
transphobia, or any queerphobia. An autonomous space that is safe for
LGBT+ people and other marginalized groups to discuss their
marginalization.
 Sapiosexual
A “sexuality” where sexual attraction is premised on intelligence.
 She-male
A slur used to describe trans women and “Assigned Male At Birth (AMAB)”
trans people. It has been reclaimed by some.
 Stealth
A trans person who passes as cis and is not out as trans.
 Stonewall riot
A seminal moment in queer history when queer people rioted in response
to police raids and police brutality.

T.
 Third sex
A gender category which is outside of the man/woman gender binary.
 Top
Gay and kink slang for the complementary role to bottoms. A queer
identity. The top takes the decisive role in a sexual encounter with a
bottom.
 Toxic masculinity
Norms about masculinity which encourage toxic behavior and attitudes
about gender, sex, sexuality, and power. Toxic masculinity is a feature of
patriarchy.
 Tranny
A slur for trans people, especially those who were assigned male at birth. It
has been reclaimed by some.
 Transition
A process (social and/or medical) by which a trans person changes their
life or body to better reflect their gender.
 Twink
A gay archetype. A queer who looks boyish, thin, waifish, hairless, and
effeminate

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U.
 Unisex
Gender neutral, designed for anyone to use.

V.
 Versatile
Gay slang to describe someone who sexually enjoys both topping and
bottoming.

W.
 Womanism
A strand of feminism born out of the limitations of second-wave feminism,
particularly its failure to account for Black women and other marginalized
women.

X.
 X-gender
A preference for non-conforming/ non-binary people in reference to their
gender

Y.
 Yaoi
Yaoi is a slang meaning 'boys love' or homosexuality that is used in the
Japanese language.
 Yuri
Explicit lesbian relationships in anime or manga.

Z.
 Ze/ Zire/ Zir
A gender neutral pronoun, alternatively spelled “zie.”
Anyone can use ze pronouns—the use of gender neutral pronouns does
not necessarily indicate anything about the user’s gender.

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 ELABORATE

Answer the following questions.

Do you still have the same perspective in gender and sex? Why or why not?
____________________________________________________________________________

Upon learning this new words how will you describe your gender identity?
____________________________________________________________________________________

EVALUATE

Asynchronous Quiz no. 6 will be given at the end of the discussion

REFERENCES

Holleb, Morgan Lev Edward (2019) "The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to
Ze." U.K., London
Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
"Gender Identity: The Ultimate Teen Guide" pages 4562. Accessed from:
https://books.google.com.ph/booksid=laORDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA18
4&dq=gender+expression&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjt_qei8TsAhUD7WEKHcPo
AgUQ6AEwBXoECAIQ
Ag#v=onepage&q =gender%20expression&f=false
See: "Range of Gender Identities" from: https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=i83VQIaDlQw
Genring, Tanner (2014). "Where Do You Fall on the Kinsey Scale?" Accessed from:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/awesomer/lets-talk-about-sex

ADDITIONAL
MATERIALS

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Yaoi

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