Inglés. Séptimo

Name		Grade	Séptimo
Date		Teacher	Gumor Castillo
Department	Languages
Worksheet
Objectives
Instructions	Finish your worksheet and send it to teacher.gumor@gmail.com

I.                   Read the following text and answer the questions.

            Stanley, a young male child from Canada asks his parents that he wants to go out to the street by wearing a dress today, just because he feels like doing that. The parents, a bit scared, agreed but talk to each other and discuss the possibility that their kid may grow up being gay and, although they are okay with that, the fear that he might be victim of bullying in the future. Years later, by the age of 17, Stanley openly talks to his parents about his decision of changing his name because he no longer feels like naming Stanley; his parents, a little confused, ask him about his new name. “Sabrina” she responds. She tells them that, for a long time she had felt that she was in another person’s body, that her new identity is the one of a woman, but, as far as she is concerned, she has always been a woman, but in a different body.

            What happened to Sabrina has to do with what is known as gender identity, which is how a person feels about his or her own gender and how he or she wants to express it to the world. Is an old concept but it has been developed and spread to society after 2015 with many concepts that deepens the old idea of men and women in the world.

Gender identity is generally developed very early in life. It's about how you experience or perceive your gender, how you show this to others, and how you want others to treat you. No every person in the world is born with the gender identity they were given at birth, and that is something that is important to understand

1.      What happened to a young boy in Canada?

2.      What was the reaction of the parents?

3.      What did the child want to change when he was 17 and why?

4.      What is the name of this phenomenon?

5.      When is gender identity generally acquired?

6.      What is gender identity?

7.      What is important to understand about gender identity?