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Gender incongruence is the state of having a gender identity that does not correspond to one's sex assigned at birth.This is experienced by people who identify as transgender or transsexual, and often results in gender dysphoria. [1]
Statistics support the fact that women often lead language change, but their motivations for doing so cannot be determined by statistics alone. It is inconclusive whether it is something physiologically inherent that makes women more progressive in their language use or if the trend is instead an effect of the role of the female gender within ...
Gender mainstreaming is defined by the United Nations Economic and Social Council in 1997 as follows: "Mainstreaming a gender perspective is the process of assessing the implications for women and men of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels.
Gender-affirmative practices emphasize gender health. Gender health is an individual's ability to identify as and express the gender(s) that feels most comfortable without the fear of rejection. [49] Gender-affirmative practices are informed by the following premises: [49] gender variance is not a psychological disorder or mental illness
Gender-based medicine, also called "gender medicine", is the field of medicine that studies the biological and physiological differences between the human sexes and how that affects differences in disease. Traditionally, medical research has mostly been conducted using the male body as the basis for clinical studies.
Biology of Sex Differences is an online-only open access scientific journal covering the biological basis of sex differences in humans and other animals.It was established in 2010 and is published by BioMed Central on behalf of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences, of which it is the official journal, as well as the Society for Women's Health Research.
Some paleontologists have looked for sexual dimorphism among dinosaurs using statistics and comparison to ecologically or phylogenetically related modern animals. Apatosaurus and Diplodocus. Female Apatosaurus and Diplodocus had interconnected caudal vertebrae that allowed them to keep their tails elevated to aid in copulation.
The human Y chromosome showing the SRY gene which codes for a protein regulating sexual differentiation. Sexual differentiation in humans is the process of development of sex differences in humans.