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Sex refers to biological differences between males and females. Gender refers to the psychological and social sense of b
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Androgyny means having both masculine and feminine traits at the same time. Sandra Bem created a questionnaire called th
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Your biological sex comes from chromosomes inherited at conception. Hormones then shape your body and may also influence
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Sometimes people are born with an unusual number of sex chromosomes. Klinefelter's syndrome (XXY) affects males, and Tur
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Kohlberg argued that children actively think their way through three stages to understand their own gender. They move fr
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Gender schema theory explains how children build mental frameworks about gender. They use these frameworks to organise t
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Freud argued that children develop their gender identity during a specific stage of childhood. They do this by copying t
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Freud argued that children resolve unconscious desire for the opposite-sex parent by copying the same-sex parent. This c
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Social learning theory says children learn gender-typed behaviour by watching and copying others. They are more likely t
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Culture and media shape what behaviours a society considers normal for men and women. Different societies and different
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Gender dysphoria is a condition where a person experiences deep distress because their gender identity does not match th
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Psychologists disagree about what causes gender dysphoria. Some point to biological factors like genes and hormones. Oth
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