Gender expression represents a person's gender identity, while a person's gender identity is their internal experience of gender.*A) TRUEB) FALSE

Is used to describe a gender identity when the binary conceptualization of gender, male or female, does not accurately describe an individual’s gendered outlook or self concept.

During the gender lecture you completed an individual activity to better understand the terms sex, gender, gender expression, and sexual orientation. Which of the following is TRUE regarding gender expression as discussed in class?Group of answer choicesIt is the same in every state in the U.S.There are a variety of gender expressions and people may fall anywhere on the spectrum.It is the same across cultures.It always refers to the sex you were born into.

There are some people whose  gender expression does not match their gender identity and who are more comfortable dressing up and presenting themselves as opposite sex.Responses

The way gender identity is expressed through action.  A gender identity or performance that does not fit with cultural norms related to one's assigned sex at birth.  The ways humans learn to behave as a man or woman and to recognize behaviors as masculine or feminine within their cultural context.  An individual who is born with a combination of male and female genitalia, gonads, and/or chromosomes.  An unequal distribution of power and access to a group's resources, opportunities, rights, and privileges based on gender. A. transgenderB. intersexC. cultural construction of genderD. gender stratificationE. gender performance

Gender is how people learn to conform to social roles of being male/female; gender appropriate/gender inappropriate behavior: The process by which people learn to be feminine and masculine.