Your Gender TRANSFORMATIVE EDUCATION Glossary
All the key terms you need to understand when preparing for Gender Transformative Education, quickly and effectively.
What is Sex?
Definition
Sex is a system of medical and legal categories used to classify bodies. Sex categories are differentiated by biological and physical characteristics such as genitals, hormones, and genetic makeup.
Education is typically organized around sex differences (boy/girl; male/female) even when the term gender is used. Gender transformative education examines how sex as a biological concept has often been used to justify unequal gender roles among men and women and to deny recognition to queer persons. GTE explores sex and gender as biological and social categories and constructs, revealing how both are shaped by historical and cultural contexts as well.
References
Fausto-Sterling, A. (2005). The bare bones of sex: part 1—sex and gender. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 30(2), 1491-1527.
Meyer, E. J. (2010). Gender and sexual diversity in schools (Vol. 10). New York, Springer.
TallBear, K., & Willey, A. (2019). Critical relationality: Queer, Indigenous, and multispecies belonging beyond settler sex & nature. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 10(1), 5-15.