Article 5 (Parenting, Gender, and Stereotypes)

I read an article entitles “Gender Identity” at www.wikipedia.org discussing that identity of someone are distinguish to show psychological association between physiological and sociological aspects of gender. The term is used initially in medical, and also used in psychology.
Some experts said that gender identity was affected by genetic, prenatal hormonal, postnatal social and post pubertal hormonal determinants which include the influence of testosterone and gene regulation in brain cells, whether social factor was influence by family that gender identity was form by the third year of life. But now, the foundation of gender identity was not influence by these factors because there was proven that sex differentiation of the brain may be inconsistent with other sex characteristics. It looks like cultural gender norm which is describe as “gender variant”.
Self identity is the process in which a person understands how people perceive them. The formation of gender identity is a difficult and tough process, start with conception which involves critical growth during gestation. When the gender identity of person makes her a woman but her genitals are male, it is difficult to her, feels lack of something and makes unhappiness. Transsexual people inclined desire that other people consider them to belong to a gender opposite to that of their gender identity. Some research has been done indicate that gender identity is determined since childhood at around 2-3 years and static after that. The research has been proceeded by asking transsexual when they realized that their gender identity is not match with their gender role.
There are also critics question that acquisition of hormone replacement therapy and sexual reassignment surgery is generally controlled by doctors. And the question how to distinguish the real transsexual and others, and to identify when they first realize and felt with the opposite sex. The question should be answer with clear awareness in order to be considered eligible for hormone replacement therapy and sexual reassignment surgery.

Article Reviewed by:
Dayang Rozifairuz Bt Kiflee