Darla shares with a close friend that she often feels a...

Name: Problem 6, Chapter 10: Psychology
Uploaded: 2020-08-16T23:36:47-08:00
Duration: 4 min 12 s
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Description: Darla shares with a close friend that she often feels a strong desire to be another gender and that it bothers her so much that she is having problems at work and in her social life. What is the term used to describe this? a. hermaphroditism b. transsexual c. gender identity. d. gender constancy.

Darla shares with a close friend that she often feels a strong desire to be another gender and that it bothers her so much that she is having problems at work and in her social life. What is the term used to describe this? a. hermaphroditism b. transsexual c. gender identity. d. gender constancy.

Darla shares with a close friend that she often feels a strong desire to be another gender and that it bothers her so much that she is having problems at work and in her social life. What is the term used to describe this?
a. hermaphroditism
b. transsexual
c. gender identity.
d. gender constancy.

Key Concepts

Transsexual

Transsexual refers to individuals who feel a strong identification with a gender that is different from the sex assigned at birth, often accompanied by significant distress. This term is used to describe the condition where the internal sense of gender is at odds with physical characteristics, and may involve a desire for medical or social transition to align outward expression with inner identity.

Gender Identity

Gender identity is the internal sense of one’s own gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth. It plays a central role in an individual's self-conception and can influence personal behavior, social roles, and interpersonal relationships.

Transcript

00:01 All right, so this question is asking, darla shares with a close friend that she often feels a strong desire to be another gender and that it bothers her so much that she is having problems at work and in her social life.

00:12 What term is used to describe this? a, hermaphroditism, b, transsexual, c, gender identity, or d, gender constancy? so right off the bat, i'm looking at our option, a hermaphroditism.

00:36 Okay, so it's actually hermaphroditism, not hermaphroditism, but hermaphroditism.

00:43 And that in simpler terms is basically just another way of saying intersex or of having ambiguous sexual organs, essentially because intersex means between the sexes.

01:00 So when darla shares, she often feels a strong desire to be another gender.

01:06 It really has nothing to do with having ambiguous sexual organs.

01:10 So for that reason, a, can be eliminated.

01:15 So i jumped down and i'm looking at gender identity and gender constancy.

01:19 And i think at first, if you first approach this question, we're probably looking at some sort of, or at least looking at those options and thinking of, okay, there has to be some sort of misunderstanding or, or rather i want to change, i want to change their sort of gender.

01:43 So it must have something to do with gender identity or gender constancy.

01:47 And while gender identity refers to the process of, or actually it's actually just their sense of being male or female, we know that gender identity, contrast to gender typing, gender identity is essentially what is already there.

02:11 And in this question, darla is essentially challenging or questioning her gender identity...

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