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Questions
1. Why is it so difficult to raise a gender-neutral child? How does the presence of gender in each of the following environments encourage gender binary? Bathrooms Language Material culture (e.g., clothing, toys, birthday cards, etc.) Practices (e.g., sports and hobbies)
2. In your opinion, what should happen to a child born with genitalia that does not fit the typical classification of male or female? Should the parents be allowed to surgically intervene or to give the child hormones? Explain your answer.
3. Define each of the following: sex; gender; social construct, cisgender, transgender, asexual, genderqueer. Use your own words.
4. Explore the interactive map of gender diverse cultures on the PBS Independent Lens website. Describe three things you learned from this site.
5. How does understanding the significance of the intersex concept help us comprehend the limitations of the conventional female/male binary?
6. Why do young African-American and Latino males identify more closely with traditional masculine ideology than their European-American counterparts?