Gender Identity

Gender Identity

Gender Identity

Sabrina Armstrong

PSY/265

July 3rd, 2011

      Beth Cole

Gender Identity
        There are several factors that decide gender identity for each person and the outcome is usually different depending on the person. Trying to figure out if a person’s gender is male or female at first glance would seem simple but like everything else it is not as effortless. There are many different variables that add to a person’s gender identity. Such as social learning influences subsequent to birth to determine decisively an individual’s gender identity.
        Society views people’s gender in several of different ways as well; such as today people assume that women are more encouraging and tend to take a more natural liking to parenthood; while they assume that men are more aggressive and are the more natural providers. Often in these more modern times people are the opposite of those archaic traditions and the women goes to work while the men raise the children.
        Biology and environment both has an influence on determining one’s gender identity. It is impractical to ascertain and individual’s gender identity or sexual differentiation by one’s exterior alone. If the individual has a gender identity that is contrasting with their biological sex, they may not have accepted it and may still be portraying themselves as the sex that does correspond with their biological sex. Conversely, one can credit the roles of customs and culture to a lot of the ways that males and females behave, and so some would say that there is noticeably more influence from the nurture aspect concerning how men and women interrelate in society than the nature aspect. One can deduce that while gender classification is established by biological hormones at the start of life and the first part of youth, it is the environmental influences that factor into the adult.
        Most individuals emerge from childhood equipped with the sex-typed characteristics that...