Soc 324 - Sociology of Sex and Gender 2 » 2019 » Quiz 2

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Question #1
Someone who identifies as having a Difference of Sex Development (DSDs) refers to a person:
A.   who dresses in women’s clothing.
B.   who has a mental health condition.
C.   whose chromosomes do not match their sexual anatomy.
D.   who comes out at a young age.
Question #2
Research on Differences or Disorders of Sex Development (DSDs) detailed in Ainsworth’s (2015) article finds that:
A.   biological sex is a spectrum.
B.   women only ever have XX chromosomes
C.   biological sex is fixed at conception
D.   men only ever have XY chromosomes
Question #3
One of the pioneers of “normalization” surgery, Dr. John Money believed that:
A.   parents should be the only ones to decide on a sex for their baby if they are born with ambiguous genitalia.
B.   intersex people should wait until they are 18 to decide to have surgery or not.
C.   society has a duty to create a third gender to include intersex people.
D.   gender is able to be changed for about the first 18 months of an infant’s life.
Question #4
Doctors in the Greenfield (2014) article argue that normalization surgeries are done primarily:
A.   because the parents want their child to look “normal.”
B.   to keep the child alive.
C.   to please the child.
D.   because the child requests it.
Question #5
All of the following are reported side effects of “normalization” surgery except:
A.   possible sterilization.
B.   painful scarring.
C.   reduced sexual sensitivity.
D.   increased height.
Question #6
According to the experiences of the intersex people interviewed in the XXXY  and Buzzfeed videos, their hope for intersex kids is that:
A.   their parents let them wait until they are older to decide if they want to have surgery.
B.   be assigned a sex as soon as possible.
C.   undergo hormone therapy.
D.   be adopted to a more accepting family.
Question #7
 Baby “M” Crawford is:
A.   the first case to challenge intersex surgery on infants and win.
B.   the first baby to die from infant “normalization” surgery.
C.   the first baby to have successful infant “normalization” surgery.
D.   the first intersex baby to be labeled a third gender.
Question #8
The Williams Institute estimated that ___________ adults identified as transgender in the US as of 2016.
A.   1.4 million
B.   5,000
C.   250,000
D.   10,000
Question #9
Most men who came of age in the gender clinic era have a/an ___________ understanding of gender.
A.   essentialist.
B.   open identity.
C.   transformable.
D.   sociocultural.
Question #10
A doctor interviewed in the video Growing Up Trans calls this new generation of trans kids “pioneers” primarily because:
A.   they are the first group of trans kids to be allowed in mainstream schools.
B.   they are the first group of trans people to be allowed in the military.
C.   they are the first group of trans kids to move to the United States.
D.   they will be the first group of trans people to use medical interventions in childhood that have unknown long-term effects.
Question #11
One of the major decisions trans adolescents have to make when thinking about starting cross-sex hormones is:
A.   whether or not they will look beautiful for handsome.
B.   their future height.
C.   whether they want to move to another state.
D.   their future fertility.
Question #12
Some nonbinary (NB) people described the coming out process as different from the typical coming out story in that NB people had to:
A.   teach others what being nonbinary is.
B.   find new friend groups.
C.   move out.
D.   undergo surgery.
Question #13
According to the Reichard (2015) article, the "x" is Latinx refers to:
A.   gender neutrality.
B.   American heritage.
C.   Malcolm X.
D.   feminine nouns.
Question #14
The existence of the Mosuo women of southwest China demonstrates that:
A.   patriarchy is not the standard for every human society.
B.   men are not happy living in matriarchal societies.
C.   matriarchies do not run as efficiently as patriarchal societies.
D.   girls still feel bad about themselves despite women being in power.
Question #15
Muxes consider themselves:
A.   intersex.
B.   cross-dressers.
C.   part of a third gender.
D.   transgender.
Question #16
The social constructionist theory of “doing gender” argues that:
A.   gender structures every interaction we have.
B.   gender is a fixed set of psychological traits.
C.   institutions (like schools or the workplace) are gender-neutral.
D.   it is easy to transgress gender norms.
Question #17
West and Zimmerman (1987) argue that gender is:
A.   a variable
B.   the product of social doings.
C.   a set of traits.
D.   a role
Question #18
When a man takes a woman's arm to guide her across a street, and she consents to be guided and does not initiate such behavior with a man is an example of:
A.   a gender display.
B.   our essential sexual natures.
C.   human nature.
D.   gendered coercion.
Question #19
According to Schilt (2010), the “natural differences schema” attributes unequal outcomes for men and women to:
A.   social interactions
B.   historical time period
C.   innate cognitive and physical abilities
D.   social structures
Question #20
Evolutionary and biological theories of gender are classified by Schilt (2010) as:
A.   natural differences schema.
B.   doing gender schemas.
C.   social constructionist schemas.
D.   symbolic interactionist theories.

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