Differences between gender, sex and sexual identity VII

1. DIFFERENCES
BETWEEN GENRE,
SEX AND SEXUAL
IDENTITY.

2. GENRE
The genre refers to the socially constructed
roles, behaviors, activities and attributes
that a society considers to be appropriate
for men and women. It is a set of different
characteristics that every society assigns
to men and women.

3. These meanings will
change in
agreement with the
culture, the
community, the
family, the
interpersonal
relations and the
group relations and
normative.

4. SEX
Is the set of biological characteristics that
characterize the human species in men
and women, and in other animal species
in males and females; differences that

become evident through the external
genitalia or breeding systems masculine
and femenine.

6. SEXUAL IDENTITY
Sexual identity, also called identity of genre,
is defined like the feeling of belonging to
one or another sex, that's it, of being man
or woman. This perception makes that we
see ourselves like sexed individuals in
masculine or feminine, which will result in
feelings, affectibility and behaviors or
different and peculiar conducts depending
on what we identify ourselves with a
sexual
masculine or feminine identity.

7. It is not necessary to confuse the sexual
identity (perception of one itself as man or
woman), with the sexual orientation
(sexual
attraction towards men, women or both).