Reading Reflections

1- Sex & Gender 101 by Kyl Meyers: This was a very informative article for me. Although the topic sounds really easy to talk about. It is actually very complicated and needs an understanding process. I feel more confident talking about sexuality and gender now after I read this article by Kyl Meyers. Gender is more associated with society and cultural environment. Gender is classified into three groups: Gender expression, gender identity, and gender assignment. Gender expression is how people take care of their outside appearances like clothes, hair, makeup, or gestures. Gender identity is how people like to be preferred as, for example, a “he” would like people to call him a “she”. It is more important to respect others’ identities and how they identify themselves. Gender assignment is when people are identified based on their biological appearance, therefore they can be women. men or intersex. For sexuality, there are 3 categories, first one is really common which is straight, or heterosexual which means someone is attracted d to his/her opposite gender. The second category is bisexual, gay, or homosexual which means people are attracted to their same-sex. The third one refers to people who are attracted to intelligence and not their gender which is called pansexual. When I broke down terms and definitions in a more simple way, it became easy for me to understand the whole meaning and differences between terms.

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