Get Over It

Collaborative Post #2

Getting our blog up-and-running took some time but finally the Psychology of Gender and Sexuality blog has turned into the blog we always hoped it would be! By each taking a focus on our specific topic of interest, Ashley covering asexuality, Dominique covering sexual attraction, Asael covering gender stereotypes, and Kati with Gender Identity Disorder, we were able to gather information on many related topics without losing our overall focus. By each covering a specific theme within the broad "Psychology of Gender and Sexuality" we were able to learn more about some very specific and current issues. Included within to present or otherwise back-up our research we have used various forms such as:

• Gender Identity Disorder flow charts
• Statistics
• Images (e.g. comics, flyers, memes)
• Videos (e.g. news broadcasts, interviews)

Hopefully our blog has helped to shed some light on these pressing issues and current news-breaks in the field of Psychology. 

How it Works!

Gender Identity Disorder (also known as...): GID, gender identity confusion, gender dysphoria, transgenderism, and transsexualism.  Health professionals believe that there are three components that make up our gender identity: our sexual orientation, behavior and mannerism preferences, and core gender identity. 

The cause of this disorder continues to be a debated one, it is suggested that it is due by genetic abnormalities, endocrine problems like a testosterone or estrogen imbalance in the womb, social factors. 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/genetic/gender-identity-disorder.htm
-Kati

 

-Kati

Gender Identity Disorder (Causes, symptoms)

Gender Identity disorder is defined as consistent cross-gender identification of a person that is, when an individual has a desire or insists that she or he is of the opposite sex.  They have a strong desire not to conform to the society's norm of his or her gender role. 

Causes:
1. Hormonal imbalances - occurring during fetal and child development
2. Genetic abnormalities of individual
3. Environmental factors such as parenting of child rearing
4. Mixture of above components cause this disorder

Symptoms/Signs:
1. Expressed want to belong to opposite sex
2. Calling oneself names used typically by opposite sex
3. Believes that in time they will grow up to become the opposite sex
4. Experience rejection from peer groups
5. Self-isolation
6. Manifesting behavior seen in the opposite sex
7. Depressed or anxious


http://ehealthwall.com/gender-identity-disordergid-treatment-symptoms-signs-test-causes/

-Kati

Youngest Case of Gender Identity Disorder

Zach Avery has been living as a girl for more than a year now, after refusing to live as a boy when turning three years old.  Instead of living as a boy, he began choosing to wear pink dresses and ribbons in his long, blonde hair.  Zach is one of the youngest to ever be diagnosed with gender identity disorder in Britain.




  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9093108/Five-year-old-boy-lives-as-girl-in-youngest-case-of-Gender-Identity-Disorder.html

-Kati

Restroom

This is just an idea of what a restroom sign would look like with different terminology and genders/sexual orientations on it.

-Kati