
A Brief Gender Crash Course
UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY REFERENCES LISTED BELOW What is Sex?* Typically defined as: “Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.” (Oxford Dictionary, 2016) -- A method of classification invented by humans -- A system strongly influenced by society’s binary views of gender -- The classification a person receives is largely based on the follo