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What are sexes?
According to Anne Fausto-Sterling, there are 5 of these.
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What are boy and girl?
Blue, if you're 'blank,' pink, if you're 'blank"
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What is 'cisgender?'
I think my biological sex, my gender identity, and my gender expression are all the same. I refer to myself as 'blank.'
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What are 'victims' and 'perpetrators'?
Sexual assault prevention campaigns problematically target potential 'blanks', rather than potential 'blanks'.
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What is 'mother'?
Household member most expected to perform childcare duties.
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What are 'male' and 'female'?
These terms refer to the two most popular human species types.
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What is sexism?
The belief that some people, because of their biological sex, are naturally better or worse at doing something.
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What is 'impossible to know from this example'?
Sometimes I dress in drag. But not at work! My gender identity is 'blank.'
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What is 'male'?
People who identify as 'blank' are the most proportionately underrepresented in WGSS courses.
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What is 'they are all presumed to be held by men'?
What the professions doctor, reverend/pastor, soldier, movie director, rock star, politician, and president have in common.
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What are 'males' or 'females'?
When someone mistakenly (perhaps offensively) refers to 'men' or 'women' as 'blanks' or 'blanks.' Hint: these references are very popular with young people, esp. young men.
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What is the wage gap for women vs. men?
77 cents for some, $1 for others!
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What are 'she' and 'he'?
The two gender-based pronouns most people use.
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What is 'basic'?
Potentially offensive way to describe a woman who has normative tastes or habits.
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What is 'a woman'?
A single serve container of yogurt is generally not considered an inappropriate lunch for 'blank.'
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What are chromosomes?
The way people are scientifically/medically sex-differentiated. Hint: most people have never seen their own.
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What is 'separate men's and women's items'?
Retail stores do this so that you know where you're supposed to shop.
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What is 'trans*'?
Nowadays, people usually put an asterisk after this prefix.
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What is 'white'?
Feminism has been criticized as dealing only with issues relevant to women who identify as 'blank'.
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What is 'a man'?
If I carry a baby around, people will congratulate me on my hard work. That's only because I'm a 'blank'.
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What is intersex?
The medicalized possibility of having a sex chromosome combination that is neither 'XX' nor 'XY'
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What is the difference between men's and women's clothing sizes?
Inches for some, random numbers for others
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What is 'transgender woman'?
People in this gender group are more likely to be assaulted based on their gender than any other group.
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What is 'transgender'?
In 1994, when Lorber's text was published, this word hadn't yet been popularized and is therefore missing from her essay.
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What is 'STEM'?
Current educational objectives aim to get more girls and women interested in 'blank' fields.
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What is 'ask about someone's genitalia'?
The fastest way to offend and/or harass just about anyone.
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