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Sex – in the biological sense, is a category for SOGIE – Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
living beings specifically related to their and Expression
reproductive functions. Most living creatures 1. Sexual Orientation – covers three dimensions
have two sexes – the male and the female. of human sexuality. It involves whom one is
attracted to and how one identifies themself
Gender – a socially learned behavior usually with this attraction, which includes romantic
associated with one's sex. Based on how people and sexual feelings.
see themselves and their tendency to act along i) Sexual attraction, behavior, and fantasies
a masculine or feminine line. ii) Emotional and social preference; self-
Gender Role Socialization – the process of identification
learning and internalizing culturally approved iii) Heterosexual and Homosexual lifestyle
ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving. 2. Gender Identity – refers to one's personal
experience of gender or social relations.
Types of Gender Roles Socialization: 3. Gender Expression – determines how one
1. External Regulation – involves various expresses their sexuality through the actions or
institutions (family, society, church, State, etc.) manner of presenting oneself.
dictating what is proper and standard based on
one's identity. LGBTQIA – an initialism movement meaning:
2. Internal Regulation/ Internalized Social ✅Lesbians – women attracted to women
Control – a person polices themself according to ✅Gays – men attracted to men
society's standards and norms. ✅Bisexuals – people who are attracted to
either sex
Gender Stereotypes develop when different ✅Transgenders – people who are transitioning
institutions reinforce a biased perception of a ✅Queer/Questioning – people who are not yet
specific gender's role. sure
Types of Gender Stereotypes: ✅ Intersex- people are born with sex
1. Sex Stereotype – a generalized view of traits characteristics (including genitals, gonads, and
that should be possessed by men and women, chromosome patterns ) that do not fit typical
specifically physical and emotional roles. binary notions of male or female bodies;
2. Sexual Stereotype – assumptions regarding a Intersex is an umbrella term used to describe a
person's sexuality that reinforces dominant wide variety of natural bodily variations.
views. ✅Asexual – people who have no sexual feelings
Heteronormativity – the assumption that all Gender Equality – the recognition of the State
persons are only attracted to the sex opposite (government) that all human beings are free to
theirs. enjoy equal conditions and fulfill their human
potential to contribute to the State and society.
Genderbread man – Sam Killerman
Hera’s Glory – Athenian Theseus 4. The influence of the person in his era