PSY 340 Gender Identity

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GENDERIDENTITY1GenderIdentityPSY 340How do biological, environmental, and cultural factors contribute to the development of genderidentity, and what role does societal perception play in an individual’s gender expression andself-awareness? (Word count:500-600 words)

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GENDERIDENTITY2Gender IdentityEvery personpossesses a gender identity within their self’swhich nearly everyonematchone’sanatomic look. A person’s gender indentify is either male or female or possiblysomethinginbetween. This is a significant individual trait that addsto ones self-worth. It isthe mode inwhich one perceives him or hersanatomicpretrial.Theone is acknowledged by society,feels,and the backgroundcan make the variationconcerning being unhappy or happy.Regrettably,gender identity is frequently confuseddue to the fact thatit is the majoritythat isassumed toconcurwith one’s outward show.Quite frequently,it doesbutthere are times thatitcan differ.Simplybecause one is expectedto be a certain way due totheir sharedoutlookor even due towhat society saysdoes not mean that itwill always be this way.Things arenot always the waythey come into view and it takesvast amount ofunderstanding andknowledge to recognizehuman beingsfor what they are,even if itdisagreeswith what onesupbringing, or option.A vigorous infant boy was born to extremely cheerful parents.Though when he wasabout eight monthsoldan accidenthappenedandthe boy’sgenitals were dreadfully destroyed.His prime male outward show attheagehe was at was his penis and now itwas no longer there.Entirely distressed bythecatastrophehis parentsknew ofa psychologistthat had the abilitytohelpallocate sex toa child withwhosegenitals were not therefor a reasonordamagedby someother reason.“If it is not created, then the child will be assigned a grammatical gender (in theWestern world, all children must be either a boy or a girl), which may or may not match thatchild's social gender as it evolves over the course of childhood (Cubertson, 2009; p.17)”.Regularly, when a parent or even a close relativeselectsthesex for their child because ofsituations,itworks quite well, butthese sameprenatal hormonescan also influence the child in anegative manner. For this boy it did not work and this hestart in onlife an unhappy boy living

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