Gender Identity In Children

Every organism; flowers, animals, bacteria, seen and unseen has something which can be used to identity its gender. In humans, gender is determined by X Y chromosomes. Females inherit and pass on the X chromosome, and males inherit and pass on X Y chromosomes. Gender Identity in humans are based on the physical appearance of a baby's sex organ at birth, With the classification of male, or female. The physical appearance is just one factor which determines an individual's identity. Babies are not born with knowledge of gender identity, as it is a belief. Gender Identity is learned predominately through culture. Understanding Bronfenbrenner Bioecological Theory of Process- Person- Context- Time, will allow an

A week ago, I observed couples in the food court at the mall displaying characteristics of gender. However one, in particular, stood out. A presumed Hispanic couple with three children demonstrated a perfect example of gender norms and distinguished interactions between both partners. The couple sat directly across from each other and engaged in a conversation with their primary language being Spanish. The woman dressed in a light teal colored shirt, concealed with a black jacket on top of it and also wore faded colored jeans along with everyday white boots. The man wore a dark blue shirt and jeans alongside black boots and sunglasses resting on his head. Both partners acquired brown hair and shared a Chinese meal together while the children

Children carry this message with them into their teenage years. Gender divides are often developed through playtime and early socialization which later develops

Children are the greatest gift parent could ever experience and raising them to be productive individuals is an important goal to most parents. A child’s sexuality usually does not come into question as the parent raises their children, parents naturally nurture their child based on their natural sexual gender. Nurturing a child’s natural sexual gender simply means raising that child as a boy if the child is born with male genital or raising the child as a female if the child is born with female genital. Although, the concept of nurturing a child’s natural sexual gender seems natural but not all parents agree. David Reimer was born a male child yet his parent raised him as a female.

In conclusion, the articles in the book were interesting. Each chapter provided a different outlook on the many complexities on the concept of gender. Gender can be and should be fluid in that there are a variety of ways to identify, perform, and express gender. The rigidity of the gender binary in our culture traps everyone in a box that many may not feel comfortable being in. If each person could make their own choices with their bodies and how they present gender, there would be more liberated individuals. This idea is brought forth in the article. “Children’s Gender Self-Determination: A Practical Guide” and it is the idea of gender self-determination. I like the thought of people overcoming limits that have been forced upon them and being

What is Gender identity? Gender identity is the concept of him or herself as a gender. They may identity themselves either as a male or female or even neither. “Factors may include inherent or extrinsic environmental factors (Ghosh, 2017). “ A person may define themselves a particular gender, however, the reasons which follow may arise difference in opinions. Gender identity is usually discussed with issues relating to a dysfunction in both adults and children. Gender identity is not to be confused with gender role or gender orientation, as each term may be used diagnosis.

Gender dysphoria is described in the DSM-V as a marked incongruence in someone’s experienced or expressed gender and their assigned gender. A diagnosis of gender dysphoria in children requires the client to meet at least six criterions for duration of time lasting at least 6 months and it is necessary that presence of these criterions significantly distress or impair the client in social, school, or personal life. These criterions include a strong desire to be the other gender or an insistence that they are the other gender, a strong preference for cross-dressing or preference for wearing clothing of the other gender, a strong preference for playing the other gender role in fantasy or make-believe play, strong preference to play or interact

Several months after the Department of Education and the Department of Justice issued a directive saying that public schools must allow students to use the bathroom according to their gender identity, another federal agency has followed suit, extending that directive to federal buildings.

For my final project, I decided to focus in on gender within childhood ages and to be more specific I zoomed in on gendered toys. I wanted to show my classmates how advertisements in particular push these gendered toys. I started off telling a story through my experiences, did a quick activity based off of gendered toys, and then showed a small collage of pictures to prove more of my point.

A gender identity is a person self identifies with a gender as being a male or female. Children learn about the characteristics and socialized parts of gender. Children understand that males and females have different body, shapes, but share characteristics. Parents raise their son or daughter in the gender assigned. If they have a boy or girl, they will buy them boy or girl clothes and toys. Parent's choosing the clothes they wear and the toys they play with they are shaping their own gender identity. Children develop their gender identity through imitating and observing the behaviors of adults. They are rewarding for imitating the behaviors of adults of the same gender and punished for imitating the behaviors of a different gender. For example,

According to the textbook, the term Gender Dysphoria means “biological sex and gender identity do not match, thus leading to distress and impairment” (Chapter 8, pg.279). The textbook also discusses how “children with Gender Dysphoria is apparent in repeated statements that the child wants to be the opposite sex or is the opposite sex; cross-dressing in clothing stereotypical of the other sex and how the child has persistent fantasies of being the opposite sex such as; pretend play or activities associated with the opposite sex” (Chapter 8, pg. 279). However; the textbook also mentions how “people with gender dysphoria have persisted discomfort with their own sex” (Chapter 8, pg. 279).

This paper examines how cultural diversity impacted a child’s gender identification based on research from different studies. Gender is one of the first social categories children become aware of because concept of gender identity is sometimes placed on children even before their birth. In general, stereotypes exist in any society and the children after becoming gender aware begins to develop stereotypes, which they apply to themselves and others, in order to give meaning to and gain understanding about their own identity and their feelings and attitudes towards own-gender and other-gender. Specifically, they provide additional evidence concerning the developmental pattern in which knowledge of stereotypes and preferences for stereotyped activities

Intro: Gender cleavage refers to the tendency for children of the same gender to self-segregate into two same-sex groups, male and female. This phenomenon appears to be a primary factor influencing social and cognitive development during childhood and early adolescence. The peer-reviewed article discussed in this paper focuses on gender cleavage in addition to age-related variances and sex differences during middle childhood.

The construction of a self-identity can be a very complex process that every individual is identity is developed through the lenses of cultural influences and how it is expected to given at birth. Through this given identity we are expected to think, speak, and behave in a certain way that fits the mold of societal norms. This paper aims to explain how gender perform gender roles according these cultural values. I intend to analyze the process in which individuals learned and internalized their respective gender identities, through their cultural background. I will be conducting a set of interviews with the intention to compare my experience as a self-identified male of Mexican descent, to the experience of another male character of Japanese heritage in order to understand how we come to self-identify as masculine in diverged cultures. In this paper, I argue that the construction of gender identities is a direct consequence of societal influential factors such as family values; values that reflect the individual’s culture. This analysis will not only utilize evidence from these identity formations, but also in explaining why and how these self-identities were constructed using both theoretical sources and empirical studies as a framework.

The concept of gender identity can only be formed within society because it reflects social expectations and beliefs regarding gender roles in certain historical period. Several centuries ago women were expected to get married early and concentrate totally on housekeeping, family, and religion. Women were regarded as opposite to men, less intelligent and incapable to be in charge of themselves. They were not allowed to own property, vote on elections, and hold leading positions. Fortunately, the development of civilization and democratization of society resulted in women becoming more equal and free from many humiliating stereotypes. After a famous quote of Simona de Beauvoir “one is not born a woman, but rather becomes, a woman” feminists directed their critique to traditional women`s subordination to men which was built upon structuralists` theories and biological determinism (Beauvoir, 2011). Since then the discussions about sex as of cultural construct do not cease. It seems that it is impossible to argue with a nature which divided men and women with the help of different chromosomes: XX for female and XY for male. Scientific proof that female and male genders are conditioned and not as opposite as it seemed came with the research data from hormones study: it was revealed that both male and female contain hormones of both sexes Judith Butler, another important feminist writer, gave a new impact to feminism studies with her book “Gender Trouble: Feminism