The biological theory tells us that genes determine a person’s gender. Klinefelters syndrome supports the biological approach as a person with this type of syndrome, where the individual has a XXY chromosome, will suffer from lack of body hair and underdeveloped genitals. Turners syndrome is when a woman is born with XO chromosomes which result in them having short bodies. However, some individuals are born with XY chromosomes and as they grow up, realise that their gender is female. Therefore there is reason to believe that genes may not affect gender development that much as there are a lot of people nowadays who are transgender.
The biological approach does seem to be supported by the tragic case study of David Reimer. Money and Erhardt followed this case over many years, and were instrumental in David being brought up as a girl after an accident that severely damaged his penis. They viewed gender as being neutral until around the age of three, and believed that any child could have their gender changed. They encouraged the Reimer’s to bring David up as a girl; Brenda. Despite being socialised as a girl, David always felt ´different'
Good morning everyone, I’m going to be reading a passage from Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson. Born on October 23,1961 in Potsdam, in Northern New York State. She read all the time; awful at math, but then lots of creative people were. She graduated form Georgetown University in 1984 with a B.S.L.L in Languages and Linguistics. For years, Laurie loved to write, but considered it more than a hobby, and became a freelance reporter, she also began to write all types of books, and accomplished to pile up a lot of rejection letters.
Therefore, this may have led to greater female identification and confused gender identity. One biological explanation suggests that prenatal hormone levels may be affected by genetic conditions and this may lead to a mismatch between hormones and genetic sex. For example, some genetic males do not respond to male hormones in the womb and therefore no external genitalia develops (AIS) This may result in a intersex condition when external genitalia does
Joe Thomas Professor Epperson REC 1000-06 November 24th, 2013 Are You Deciding On Purpose The article “Are You Deciding On Purpose” about the interview of author, speaker, and counselor Richard Leider really made me think about my life and what I want to do with myself. Leider brings up many great points in the interview and it was an eye opener for me after I finished reading the article. The first thing he mentions in the interview is how people are intimidated by all the choices we have now as career options. Nowadays, there are so many career paths to choose from that it overwhelms people and the decisions that they make. I think this is true for everyone and especially me.
Honoring Our Children Tara Gamble English 102 S. Geitsin 4/22/2014 Being two spirited is known within Native American community. Two spirit is a Native American term used for individuals who possess both male and female spirits, it is considered to have two spirits and one body. Native cultures accept androgynous people and/or those who may be masculine females or feminine males. There are societies that are intolerant of two spirit individuals because it’s understood that it is acceptance for homosexuality. Native Americans have often held intersex, androgynous people, feminine males and masculine females in high respect (Williams).
In both studies, the conclusions did show that behavior is influenced by outside sources, but the information was not strong enough to be able to say whether or not the effects were temporary or if it had a lifelong impact. Another similarity noted is that there was a focus on whether gender played any part in how an individual developed behavior. David had a hard time trying to follow the plan of life as a girl as influenced by his parents and doctors, and unknowingly by the people he interacted with in society thinking he was a girl. The feeling to live like a boy was natural instinct to him and there was many consequences mentally trying to change that. As far as the Bobo doll experiment, both genders showed aggression equally, just in different
There are many things that I learned in this section that I had never even thought about before. One of the biggest things that I learned about was the different social classes that we have. I simply thought that you had the rich and the poor. I had no clue that a family could belong to all of these different social classes and learning about them and seeing the different requirements to fit into each category was very interesting to me. Another thing that I have learned about in this section that really stood out to me was the section on group think.
When it came time for me to take any sort of standardized test, my level of test anxiety always out-shined my level of knowledge on any subject. For example, each time that I took the ACT (three times total), I made every effort to prepare. My parents even purchased a computer program as a tool to help me prepare. The program included sample ACT questions. I did well on these questions, missing very few.
Man vs. Woman issues. Another being Family and Tradition. Within the first theme its not that women are not as good as men, women can be greater or just as great as men and just because of their gender shouldn’t be held back from certain things. Also with the second theme family traditions can be broken if you don’t agree with that tradition or belief or you think what your family’s old customs are correct in your views. The first theme, which was Gender is represented in many ways.