12.1 Sex, Gender, Identity, and Expression - Introduction to Sociology 3e | OpenStax

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• (ILGA) indicate that many countries impose penalties for same-sex relationships, gender noncomformity, and other acts deemed opposed to the cultural or religious observances of the nation.

• a person’s deeply held internal perception of one's gender.

• Historically, women have had difficulty shedding the expectation that they cannot be a "good mother" and a "good worker" at the same time, which results in fewer opportunities and lower levels of pay (Ogden 2019).

• The drive to adhere to masculine and feminine gender roles continues later in life, in a tendency sometimes referred to as "occupational sorting"

• Research suggests that it is easier for women violate these norms than men, because men are subject to more social disapproval for being physically close to other men

• a person who does not fully understand all of these terms can still be supportive of people who have those orientations or others; in fact, advocacy and support organizations indicate it is much better to admit you don't know something than to make assumptions or apply an incorrect label to someone

• demisexual refers to someone who feels a sexual attraction to someone only after they form an emotional bond; the term itself doesn't distinguish among gender identities, but the person may feel attraction based on gender

• refers to physical or physiological differences between males and females, including both primary sex characteristics (the reproductive system) and secondary characteristics such as height and muscularity.

• refers to behaviors, personal traits, and social positions that society attributes to being female or male.

• person’s sex, as determined by their biology, does not always correspond with their gender.

• berdache to refer to individuals who occasionally or permanently dressed and lived as a different gender.

• capacity to experience sexual feelings and attraction.

• physical, mental, emotional, and sexual attraction to a particular sex (male and/or female).

• heterosexuality

• homosexuality

• bisexuality

• asexuality

• pansexuality

• omnisexuality

• is important to acknowledge and understand that many of these orientations exist on on a spectrum,