{"id":12126,"date":"2025-11-23T19:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/?p=12126"},"modified":"2025-11-23T19:49:01","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:49:01","slug":"12-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/2025\/11\/23\/12-1\/","title":{"rendered":"12.1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>1. What is the difference between gender and sex?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sex is a biological classification based on physical characteristics such as chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive anatomy.<br>Gender, on the other hand, is a social and cultural concept that refers to the roles, identities, and expectations that society associates with people.<br>In simple terms, sex relates to biology, while gender relates to identity and social roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Describe the difference between a cisgender and a transgender person.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A cisgender person is someone whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.<br>A transgender person is someone whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth.<br>This means that while a cisgender person\u2019s internal sense of gender aligns with their assigned sex, a transgender person\u2019s internal sense of gender differs from it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. What is gender expression?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gender expression is the outward way a person presents their gender through actions, clothing, hairstyle, voice, and other forms of appearance or behavior.<br>It is how someone chooses to show their gender to the world, and it may or may not align with that person\u2019s gender identity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. What is the difference between gender and sex? Sex is a biological classification based on physical characteristics such as chromosomes, hormones, and reproductive anatomy.Gender, on the other hand, is a social and cultural concept that refers to the roles, identities, and expectations that society associates with people.In simple terms, sex relates to biology, while&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10959,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion-board-12-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12127,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions\/12127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/pol-100-0501-fall-2025-introduction-to-american-government\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}