theory states that a child forms his or her own thoughts about gender?
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That is true - sex is a biological standpoint, gender is a physiological standpoint. So basically, when you are born a doctor says male or female and that is your sex. Your gender is what you feel you are. Usually sex and gender are the same, but some people, especially in North American culture, are born, let's say male, and feel they should have been female - that is a gender issue.
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Gladly!\n\nA transgender individual is one who does not fit into traditional definitions of gender (gender being the way one looks and behaves).  There are many 'varieities' of transgendered people, so to speak, from those who feel they embody both masculine and feminine characteristics and hence aren't truly one or the other, those who feel they are both, neither, or are a 'third gender', so to speak, some cross-dressers and other folk who don't necessarily think of themselves as men or women in the way that society defines men and women.  They do not alter their bodies with surgery or hormones, however.\n\nTranssexuals usually have gender dysphoria, where they feel a mind-body dissonance (that they were born in the wrong body), and they take steps to remedy that with surgery and hormones.  Oftentimes transgender individuals will become transsexuals, and some transsexuals, even after their transitions, will realize that they are transgender, and that although they love and prefer their new bodies, they still have traits of each within them (for a wonderful discussion of this, read some of Kate Bornstein's work).\n\nHope that helped!  A lot of people confuse the term- I'm trying to set them all straight, but it will take a while . . .
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Well, although you're mixing transgenderism with homosexuality, you are essentially correct. \n\nA woman who feels her gender is incorrect may get sexual reassignment surgery to become male. If she finds men attractive beforehand, but doesn't relate to them as a woman, she may be a transgendered gay man.\n\nA man who feels his gender is incorrect may get sexual reassignment surgery to become female. If he finds women attractive beforehand, but doesn't relate to them as a man, he may be a transgendered lesbian.\n\nIt doesn't happen often, but there are transgendered gay people. I've heard of a few trangendered lesbians.\n\nAs to being born gay, current scientific thinking is leaning toward a series of hormonal and genetic changes in the womb which determine sexual orientation. There are studies on birth order, twins, finger length, etc. all of which are determined in utero.
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actually it is very possible. many parts of the brain are yet to be discovered. did you know that the way a single person thinks of an out come can directly affect the object or thing that he or she is thinking of. there has been many studies and all have come to our suprise as true the mind can extend out. its your subconsiousnes. the inner mind
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hmm always thought there were more girls than guys in this world, never really thought about it, but according the the current theories behind genes, there should be an equal chance between recieving the chromosomes for a boy as a girl.
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Allow me to say congrats on behave of learning to think for yourself at a younger age!\n\nNow just know that it is normal fo kids to start off believeing everything the parents say, then they get into the world and opinions may change and they may not.  You seem to "not care" but you are also informed, so once again congrats!
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It may be that conditioning may have a very small part of a person being gay but it would be a very small percentage of gay people that are effected in this way. However, I do think that the majority of gay people are born with this disposition.\n\nI am sure that most of you have heard of a condition called hermaphroditism (or the more politically correct term these days is 'intersex') where a person is born with the fully formed genatalia of BOTH sexes. The subject, apart from their genitalia, is physically and mentally sound in every other way.\n\nSometimes, these children are operated on at birth if the doctors decide (guess) that the baby appears to have a female or male inclination and the genitals are modified accordingly. In many cases though, a modified 'girl' grows up with feelings for other women and modified 'boys' grow up feeling something for other men. It seems in these cases, the doctors have made the wrong decision and the psychological makeup of the child was in fact the opposite to the physical modification they performed on the child. So even though, for instance, a child may be brought up as a girl with girls toys etc, the 'nature' side of the brain kicks in at puberty (if not before) and overrides the 'nurture' side.\n\nNow, if nature can produce a visible, physical example of developmental confusion on the outside of the human body, who is to say that there are not processes at work of developmental confusion going on inside the unseen brain of a person ... where there may not be an obvious physical example of gender disorientation externally but internally their brain does not dictate in the way that their external body would suggest to the rest of society.\n\nThere is very strong evidence that sexuality is largely determined by development in the womb. Perhaps, while 'intersex' is firm external physical proof of developmental issues, we ought to consider that perhaps the developmental differences in gay people are more subtle and obviously invisible to the naked eye due to the brain being internal - but that does not mean that the differences are not there.\n\nHomosexuality has been around since the beginning of time and if you research gay history in cultures across the world, the present prejudices seem to stem with the spread of the three major monotheistic religons and it is this prejudice that is ingrained into the psyche of people today. But like racism, for instance, perhaps this prejudice towards gay people will diminish as society recognises that alternative sexuality is actually just a normal part of nature's rich diversity.
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Gender traits, are they  learned or are they hereditary?
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Studies show that the male mind can be quite different. The male has two minds virtually that cannot work together. One side has to be dominant for any one moment. None the less thinking is very similar for the female but she has to respond to several different sensory stimuli than the male. Her to mind has been shown to be well connected at the base of the brain so association of thoughts are more preset before the thinking and after.  Conditioning of the mind requires females to be trained as ladies and accept being watched. The male doesn't need to be watched that way so socially the two become more different up until middle age when the female begins to change until at the end of life the two are seemingly very similar again. The joke is that after the male has had his first heart attack he is just as good a friend as any woman.
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a child is created in his/her parents image, a gene from each  shapes the child, they decide the action that starts the creation, but yet a child  for the most part, is not equal to the parent,,,,\n\nand please dont classify all believers or even all believers in Jesus, into one group lol  i do both, yet are not christian
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LOL!..It look like some of the deep thinking intellectuals\nare answering your question. This child must be 11 years old\nand left at home alone much of the time
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I think both of the gender.
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someone who thinks they are a man/woman trapped inside the other sex's body.
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I'm not sure exactly what you mean ... But I'll give you what I think you mean ...\n\nIt is popular among educators to talk about single-gender classrooms. There are some that believe that if boys and girls take separate classes, they can learn more. So, they study the same subjects, but just from different teachers or at different times. All the boys in one class, the girls in another.
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You are what u think thats why, U think what you are.\n\nSoul: Mind, Intellect and Personality\nEvery soul has three separate faculties which are inherent in all human beings irrespective of place of birth. Just as electrical energy produces warmth, sound or light depending on the device through which it passes, similarly, the energy of consciousness functions through three different but closely connected faculties, referred to respectively by the terms mind, intellect, and personality.\n\nThe Mind\nWith the power of the mind, one imagines, thinks and forms ideas. Thoughts are created in the mind. The thought process is the basis of all emotions, desires and sensations. It is through the minds that, in an instant, thoughts reach anywhere, a memory can be relived and the feeling of happiness or sadness is experienced. The metaphysical mind should not be confused with the heart, the physical organ that maintains blood circulation
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There are also children. *g* Now if you are talking about male and female genders, there are also hermaphrodites and others with genetic abnormalities.
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I don't think that it really matters per say on gender. But on the way we perceive things differently. The gender can effect the way that we react to things differently.