Key Concept 3: Understanding Gender

1. What is Gender Identity?

• A. The clothes a person wears

• B. The body parts a person has

• C. How a person feels inside — male, female, both, or neither

• D. Who a person is attracted to

2.  Which of the following is an example of a gender norm?

• A. Wearing glasses

• B. Boys shouldn’t cry

• C. Eating vegetables

• D. Having short hair

3. 3. What does 'sexual orientation' mean?

• A. How someone expresses their gender

• B. Whether a person is male or female

• C. The type of clothes someone wears

• D. Who someone is romantically or sexually attracted to

4.   What is an example of gender expression?

• A. A boy wearing makeup

• B. Liking spicy food

• C. Feeling like a girl

• D. Being born male

5.  Which term describes a person whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth?

• A. Intersex

• B. Bisexual

• C. Heterosexual

• D. Transgender

1. A person’s sex is the same as their gender identity.

• True

• False

Gender scripts are expectations for how people should behave in specific roles, like being a mother or father.

• True

• False

Gender refers only to biological differences between males and females.

• True

• False

Bisexual people are only attracted to the opposite sex.

• True

• False

People’s gender expression always matches their gender identity.

• True

• False