GELECT 2- GENDER AND SOCIETY

Interview 2 people and ask the following questions. Make notes or take the gist of the participants'
answers.

Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior towards Gender and

Non-Conforming Gender Identity
● Sex is your biological attributes and
sexual orientation is about who you are
attracted to and who you are drawn to.
● Sex is about your physical features
whether you have male or female
reproductive system. Sexual orientation
How do you define sex and sexual includes your sexual or emotional
orientation? attraction to another person while
● Gender is how your identity relates to
society’s idea of what it means to be a
woman, man, neither, or a mix of many
genders. Gender identity who you are.
Whether you identify yourself as male,
female, genderqueer, etc.
● Gender includes norms, behaviors and
roles associated with being a woman,
man, girl or boy, as well as relationships
with each other. Gender identity is each
How do you define gender and person's internal and individual
gender identity? experience of gender.
● A man can be any gender he wants. A
real man has a male reproductive
system.
● A man is simply an adult male. A real
man, no matter his gender, has his own
How do you characterize a man? principle and takes the responsibility of a
What about a real man? real man.
● Anyone can be a woman. A real woman,
no matter how she identifies herself, is
someone who is compassionate and
vulnerable towards those she loves
without feeling weak for doing so.
● A woman is someone who identifies
herself as a woman. A real woman is a
How do you characterize a woman? person assigned a female sex at birth.
What about a real woman?
● LGBTQIA+ is an abbreviation for lesbian,
gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or
What do you know about LGBTQIA+? questioning, intersex, asexual, and more.
 These terms are used to describe a
person’s sexual orientation or gender
identity.
● It is a group of people who identify
themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, queer or those who are
questioning their gender identity or sexual
orientation, intersex, and asexual.