Biological Psychology

This lecture lesson is on Gender issues that will affect us all in one way or another. We all have various differences when it comes to learning about ourselves. It seems like nowadays gender is a big issue. We are all learning various new terms like binary, transsexual, along with many other terms and the many differences there are to learn about and how we are affected physically and psychologically.

Gender issues and the many differences usually deal with our hormones that determine our sex and gender. One way that some people think is that "Men are men and women are women." This attitude it seems has many alternatives today. This area is flawed yet discrete and complementary yet is could be wrong in the simplicity of it yet the symmetry of this idea is appealing. There is a duplicate dichotomy or division into these two parts. Gender is not dichotomous and it is simply not inherited and is developmental and culture is encouraged. The chromosomes of XX for female and XY for male is the normal developmental sequence and the general biological scheme that a child will be female or male unless the process is interrupted in some way, and a default is female and if interrupted a male impact on the brain will occur and this is important for the Gender physical body (male or female symbols) or the intergrade and the understanding of the person and the direction of sexual attraction if any. The cultural and societal reaction to persons will see that there are four dimensions of gender.

There is chromosomal abnormalities such as (xx) or (xy) axiom or there could be (xxy) or Klinefelter's syndrome where a child is completely developed masculinized but female is turned off and the body has the antecedents of (xy) and (xx) and feminized and the male is turned off meaning that each will have some of the other sex, as in the amount of testosterone and/or estrogen for puberty; normal intelligence quotient; their could be mild retardation; and low fertility; lower verbal capacity.

Treatment is incomplete and there could be and if there were more testosterone added, but this could cause other issues. Conditions of Intergender begins with xxx for the normal female with no conflict on the information, but there is a xyy or the super male who are in the prison population and were studied as 'violent' because of the extra testosterone and with less slightly intelligence and slightly taller that commit crimes against property not people. Most have normal development and a normal life. There is also xo meaning an abnormal chromosomes.

Turner's Syndrome develops as female but is insufficient development. There are no varies or damaged memory impairments and is identified in adolescence, and even if the xy and other problems there might be normal development. At the prenatal level at five weeks there is no differentiation between male and female and then at week six if the y chromosome is present new processes of differentiation occur, and the manufacturers of various antigens like the testes to appear and begin to produce chemicals and testosterone. The embryo will have two types of tissues known as Wolfian or male and Mammerlian or female. At three months of age the testes production of testosterone as well as other hormones start to develop then it seems that testosterone takes the male and then turns off the Mammerlian hormone.

The stages in gender development is first the genetic factors and chromosomal assignment; second prenatal development of the hormones; third there is abnormal development of the internal genitals and the making of the hormones and the eventual development of the external genitals and then we are born. Someone assigns gender to the child but there are times there are differences that are made and then socialization occurs. There are errors in genetic attribution along with others.

To be continued with Intergender Conditions

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