Human Growth and Development / Unit 6 HGD 0765 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sex and Gender
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The idea
Biological sex has physical, anatomical, genetic, chromosomal and hormonal components; gender has psychological, social and cultural ones, including boy, girl, or outside the binary.
In practice
A child's body described by sex, and the same child's sense of self and role described by gender.
Where people slip
Unit four covered how gender identity begins; early childhood is when children's understanding of gender takes shape.
Your place on the trail
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