Gender and Sexuality

The Five Sexes

What is Sex?
- They are biological
characteristics such as
chromosomes, hormones,
gonad, and reproductive
organs used to classify people.
 Chromosomes Hormones Gonads Reproductive
- A chromosome is an Organs
organized package of - Hormones are your - the primary
DNA found in the nucleus body's chemical reproductive organs, - The reproductive
of the cell. Different messengers. They travel are the testes in the system of an organism,
organisms have different in your bloodstream to male and the ovaries also known as the
numbers of chromosomes. tissues or organs. They in the female. These genital system, is the
Humans have 23 pairs of work slowly, over time, organs are biological system made
chromosomes--22 pairs of and affect many up of all the anatomical
numbered chromosomes, responsible for
different processes, producing the sperm organs involved in
called autosomes, and one sexual reproduction.
pair of sex chromosomes,
including: Growth and and ova, but they also
development. Many non-living
X and Y. Each parent
Metabolism - how your
secrete hormones and substances such as
contributes one are considered to be
chromosome to each pair body gets energy from fluids, hormones, and
so that offspring get half the foods you eat. endocrine glands. pheromones are also
of their chromosomes important accessories to
from their mother and half the reproductive system.
from their father.
Anne Fausto-Sterling
(American Sexologist)
 Male and Female
CHROMOSOMES CHROMOSOMES
- biologically male individuals have one - biologically female have two X
X and one Y chromosome (XY). chromosomes.

HORMONES HORMONES
- men's primary sex hormone is - primary female sex hormones are
testosterone. estrogen and progesterone.

GONAD GONAD
- A testis, one of a pair of organs located - the ovary or "egg sac", is one of a
behind the penis in a pouch of skin called pair of reproductive glands in
the scrotum. women.

REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
- the external genitals (the penis, testes and the
-  internal reproductive organs are
scrotum) and internal parts, including the prostate
the vagina, uterus, fallopian tubes,
gland, vas deferens and urethra.
and ovaries.
MERM - male pseudohermaphrodites, who have testes and
some elements of female genitalia but don't have
S ovaries.

HERM  - true-blue hermaphrodites, or people

possessing one testis and one ovary (the sperm-
S and egg-producing vessels).

fERMS - female pseudohermaphrodites, who

possess ovaries and some elements of male
genitalia but lack testes.
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