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.   whose chromosomes do not match their sexual anatomy.
B.   who dresses in women’s clothing.
C.   who has a mental health condition.
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.   men only ever have XY chromosomes
D.   biological sex is fixed at conception
Question #3
One of the pioneers of “normalization” surgery, Dr. John Money believed that:
A.   society has a duty to create a third gender to include intersex people.
B.   gender is able to be changed for about the first 18 months of an infant’s life.
C.   parents should be the only ones to decide on a sex for their baby if they are born with ambiguous genitalia.
D.   intersex people should wait until they are 18 to decide to have surgery or not.
Question #4
Doctors in the Greenfield (2014) article argue that normalization surgeries are done primarily:
A.   to please the child.
B.   to keep the child alive.
C.   because the parents want their child to look “normal.”
D.   because the child requests it.
Question #5
All of the following are reported side effects of “normalization” surgery except:
A.   reduced sexual sensitivity.
B.   possible sterilization.
C.   painful scarring.
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.   be adopted to a more accepting family.
B.   be assigned a sex as soon as possible.
C.   their parents let them wait until they are older to decide if they want to have surgery.
D.   undergo hormone therapy.
Question #7
 Baby “M” Crawford is:
A.   the first case to challenge intersex surgery on infants and win.
B.   the first intersex baby to be labeled a third gender.
C.   the first baby to die from infant “normalization” surgery.
D.   the first baby to have successful infant “normalization” surgery.
Question #8
The Williams Institute estimated that ___________ adults identified as transgender in the US as of 2016.
A.   10,000
B.   5,000
C.   250,000
D.   1.4 million
Question #9
Most men who came of age in the gender clinic era have a/an ___________ understanding of gender.
A.   transformable.
B.   sociocultural.
C.   open identity.
D.   essentialist.
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 fertility.
C.   their future height.
D.   whether they want to move to another state.
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.   undergo surgery.
B.   find new friend groups.
C.   teach others what being nonbinary is.
D.   move out.
Question #13
According to the Reichard (2015) article, the "x" is Latinx refers to:
A.   feminine nouns.
B.   Malcolm X.
C.   American heritage.
D.   gender neutrality.
Question #14
The existence of the Mosuo women of southwest China demonstrates that:
A.   girls still feel bad about themselves despite women being in power.
B.   patriarchy is not the standard for every human society.
C.   men are not happy living in matriarchal societies.
D.   matriarchies do not run as efficiently as patriarchal societies.
Question #15
Muxes consider themselves:
A.   transgender.
B.   cross-dressers.
C.   part of a third gender.
D.   intersex.
Question #16
The social constructionist theory of “doing gender” argues that:
A.   institutions (like schools or the workplace) are gender-neutral.
B.   it is easy to transgress gender norms.
C.   gender is a fixed set of psychological traits.
D.   gender structures every interaction we have.
Question #17
West and Zimmerman (1987) argue that gender is:
A.   a role
B.   a set of traits.
C.   the product of social doings.
D.   a variable
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.   gendered coercion.
B.   our essential sexual natures.
C.   human nature.
D.   a gender display.
Question #19
According to Schilt (2010), the “natural differences schema” attributes unequal outcomes for men and women to:
A.   historical time period
B.   social structures
C.   social interactions
D.   innate cognitive and physical abilities
Question #20
Evolutionary and biological theories of gender are classified by Schilt (2010) as:
A.   symbolic interactionist theories.
B.   natural differences schema.
C.   social constructionist schemas.
D.   doing gender schemas.

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