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  2. Gender typing - Wikipedia

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    gender identity: the child recognizes that they are either a boy or a girl and possesses the ability to label others. gender stability: the identity in which they recognizes themselves as does not change; gender consistency: the acceptance that gender does not change regardless of changes in gender-typed appearance, activities, and traits.

  3. Gender roles in childhood - Wikipedia

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    This proves that the observation of television role-models and other media have great influence on children, especially when the media portrays gender norms specific to one gender (ex: superheroes appeal more to boys than girls, whereas princesses appeal more to girls.) [61] Overall, social cognitive theory, also known as social learning theory ...

  4. Gender schema theory - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, Bem suggests teaching alternative schemata to children so that they are less likely to build and maintain a gender schema. [5] Some examples include an individual differences schema, where children learn to process information on a person-by-person basis rather than make wide assumptions about groups based on information from ...

  5. Sociology of gender - Wikipedia

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    Underrepresentation such as this can affect children and their views of gender. [33] Children's TV networks, such as Disney, Nickelodeon, and Cartoon Network, have demonstrated a disproportional representation of males and females on their respective shows in a study done by Beth Hentges and Kim Case.

  6. Gender dysphoria - Wikipedia

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    Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and their sex assigned at birth. [5] [6] The term replaced the previous diagnostic label of gender identity disorder (GID) in 2013 with the release of the diagnostic manual DSM-5.

  7. How 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' became America's most banned book

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    The crusade against “Gender Queer” has largely driven its popularity and increased the size of Kobabe's royalty checks. The memoir has sold more than 96,000 copies and has been translated into ...

  8. Childhood gender nonconformity - Wikipedia

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    In these studies, a majority of those who identify as gay or lesbian self-report being gender nonconforming as children. [2] [3] [4] The therapeutic community is divided over the proper response to childhood gender nonconformity. Gender nonconforming children face gender policing from both adults and peers, including bullying and violence based ...

  9. Normative social influence - Wikipedia

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    As the group becomes more important to a person, physically closer to him/her, and larger in number, Social Impact Theory predicts that conformity to group norms will increase. However, the size of the group only affects conformity to an extent—as a group expands past 3–5 members, the effect levels off. [12]