Chap 13 LifeSpan Development

A medical process by which transgender individuals can undergo body changes to match their gender identity. Typically involves body changes that are induced by hormone therapy and permanent changes to the external genitals, accomplished by means of gender reassignment surgery.

1. Sexual Orientation

2. Biological Gender Transition

3. Sexting

Biological gender transition

An individual who identifies with his or her chromosomal sex.

1. Sex

2. Cisgender

3. Gender Stereotypes

Cisgender

Characteristics associated with males and/or females; largely socialized. May also include characteristics of both males and females or neither.

1. Gender Stereotypes

2. Gender Stability

3. Gender

Gender

A child’s understanding of the biological permanence of gender and that it does not change regardless of appearance, activities, or attitudes.

1. Gender Schema

2. Gender Stability

3. Gender Constancy

Gender constancy

Awareness and labeling oneself by gender.

1. Gender Identity

2. Gender Schema

3. Gender

Gender Identity

A concept or a mental structure that organizes gender-related information and embodies a person’s understanding of what it means to be a male or female (or another gender). Used as a guide to attitudes and behaviors.

1. Gender Schema

2. Gender Stereotypes

3. Cisgender

Gender Schema

The understanding that gender generally does not change.

1. Gender Stability

2. Biological Gender Transition

3. Gender Identity

Gender Stability

Refer to broad generalized judgments of the activities, attitudes, skills, and characteristics deemed appropriate for males or females in a given culture.

1. Gender Stereotypes

2. Gender Schema

3. Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Gender Stereotypes

Infection most commonly passed through sexual activity and intravenous drug use, which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

1. Puberty Suppressors

2. Human Immunodeficiency

3. Human Papillomavirus

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)

The most common type of sexually transmitted infection diagnosed in people of all ages; comprises several types, some of which can cause cancer in different areas of the body (e.g., cervical cancer in women).

1. Human Papillomavirus

2. Human Immunodeficiency

3. Gender Schema

Human Papillomavirus (HPV)

Medication that inhibits sex hormones and prevents the onset of pubertal changes.

1. Sex

2. Sexting

3. Puberty Suppressors

Puberty Supressors

Generally the gender assigned at birth, biological and determined by the presence of a Y chromosome in the 23rd pair of chromosomes, and usually indicated by the genitals.

1. Sexual Orientation

2. Sex

3. Gender Schema

Sex

The exchange of explicit sexual messages or images via mobile phone.

1. Gender Stereotypes

2. Sexting

3. Sex

Sexting

An enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and sexual attraction to (gay or lesbian), or partners of both sexes (bisexual).

1. Sexual Orientation

2. Social Gender Transition

3. Transgender Identity

Sexual Orientation

A process by which transgender individuals adopt social changes to match their gender identity, such as by changing pronouns and appearance.

1. Transgender identity

2. Social Gender Transition

3. Sexual Orientation

Social Gender Transition

An identity or sense of self that does not match one’s natal sex.

1. Sex

2. Sexual Orientation

3. Transgender Identity

Transgender Identity