Systems and categories | Hormones and anatomy | Science and scientists | Histories | Respect/Etiquette |
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Who is Aristotle
The person who created the one-sex model
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What is testosterone
This hormone is most commonly associated with male identity but is present in all bodies
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What are chromosomes
The “trump” card that is used to invalidate trans or intersex individuals?
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What is 1940? (what is 1913 also ok)
Before this year, boys were associated with pink, and girls were associated with blue.
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What are pronoun(s)
used to refer to someone without using their name
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What is natural / what is sex change
all of us will experience changes to our sexed characteristics over the course of a lifetime
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What is intersex
This group of people are more likely to be subjected to medical abuse as infants to "correct" their genitals
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What is 1913
The year that Ladies Home Journal suggested mothers dress their boys in pink and girls in blue.
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What is pretend to be intersex?
Transgender people used to have to do this in order to get medical care.
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Who is you
who is the only person that needs to know your sex
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What is male and female
The current, oversimplified categories within the gender binary
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What is gender correction surgery
A practice done by surgeons on intersex infants that is often considered abuse but is still commonly practiced.
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What is the hymen
The social/medical construct that dictates a woman's virginity.
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What is the one-sex model?
The model that Aristotle and Galen made popular.
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What is a woman
what is the appropriate way to refer to a trans woman
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What is gender
A term that describes the interactions of culture, environment, and socialization
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What are androgens
The cause of growth and shrinkage of the penis/clitoris.
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Who is Anne Fausto-Sterling
The social scientist who was devoted to “questioning and unpicking the prior notion of gender and its meaning onto the world around us”.
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What is 2013?
The year when the highly political book "Sex Itself: The Search for Male and Female in the Human Genome" was released.
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What is a spectrum (or a continuum)
How should we think about sex and gender, rather than a binary system?
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What is transgender
An incredibly broad term currently used to identify anything outside of the gender binary
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What is proproception
the sense we have of our bodies as an entity in space and time
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What is sex
Chromosomes, hormones, internal sex organs, external sex organs, secondary sexual characteristics, and general morphology, as well as proprioception and culture, play a role in this.
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What is Malta
The 1st country to outlaw medical intervention to “correct” the genitalia of infants and children
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\What is hermaphrodite
An antiquated term used to refer to intersex people
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