Assignment: Human Sexuality
Part I
Research the following terms:
A. Sex
B. Gender
C. Assigned gender
D. Gender identity
E. Gender roles and gender role learning
F. Sexual orientation
Based on your understanding, address the following:
A. Explain how these terms are different from each other.
B. Provide an explanation of the perspectives that influence sexual orientation with regard to the assigned gender, gender identity, and gender roles. For example, what did you learn as a child as it relates to "what it means to be a boy or a girl in our society"? Where you influenced by gender role socialization?
C. Provide a description of the process of gender role learning at all stages of development from childhood through adolescence. What do you think are the major socialization influences throughout the process, and the changes, if any, in contemporary roles and encoded sexual scripts of gender and gender theory? Explain how gender role learning applies here, if it does.
D. Briefly describe how this week's readings have influenced your perception and behavior towards sexual orientation.
Part II
Gender Dysphoria an intense, continuous discomfort resulting from an individual's sense of the inappropriateness of their assigned gender at birth and the resulting gender role expectations. It is also a clinical psychological diagnosis that offends many in transgender communities, and an individual is often required to receive medical supervision of treatments relating to transition like hormones or surgery.
Address the following questions:
A. What is your understanding about Gender Dysphoria and transsexuality? Provide an example of each.
B. Has this understanding change or changed your attitude, perceptions, or views about these gender roles? Why or why not?
C. Can you think of ways in which you encourage social influences that impact the development of gender orientation from early childhood? Would you dress a little boy in a pink shirt? How do you think cartoons and movies impact gender stereotypes?
D. What dilemmas do parents of intersex individuals face? What does "gender neutral" mean?
Format your assignment according to the give formatting requirements:
• The answer must be using Times New Roman font (size 12), double spaced, typed, with one-inch margins on all sides.
• The response also includes a cover page containing the student's name, the title of the assignment, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
• Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.