Inglés. Tercer año Medio

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Name		Grade	III año Medio
Date		Teacher	Gumor Castillo
Department	Languages
Worksheet
Objectives	To develop the Reading ability and understand the concepts related to gender identity.
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.

The physical features that you were born with (your biological sex) do not necessarily define your gender. Although gender has traditionally been divided into "male" and "female", it is now widely recognized that gender is not that simple.

The gender spectrum includes numerous identities including male, female, a mixture of both, no gender, a fluid gender, or another gender. Whilst people who experience gender diversity identify with a range of different terms, "trans and gender diverse" is often used as an umbrella term to describe people who identify with a gender that is different to the one assigned to them at birth. The LGBT acronym ash been expanded since then to LGBTIQ+ with the purpose of standing and defending the rights of all different types of sexual orientations and identities related to different genders.(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, Intersexual, Queer, and any other that are currently under development to be defined, such as non-binary and pansexual).

If a young person has confided in you about their gender diversity be sure to respect their privacy and ask before sharing their information with anyone else. They may not be comfortable in letting other people know yet and it is very important that the young person remains in control of their personal information because that person may still be dealing with it as it is a whole process to communicate that to the rest of the world. More important than that, there might be a family issue going on as not all the families are ready to accept a phenomenon like this one.

            All societies have a set of gender categories that can serve as the basis of a person's self-identity in relation to other members of society. In most societies, there is a basic division between gender attributes assigned to males and females, a gender binary to which most people adhere and which includes expectations of masculinity and femininity in all aspects of sex and gender: biological sex, gender identity, and gender expression. Some people do not identify with some, or all, of the aspects of gender assigned to their biological sex; some of those people are transgender, non-binary or genderqueer. Some societies have third gender categories.

Although there are many people who stands for these ideas, nations are still discussing them because there is a part of population that do not agree on the idea of allowing gender and sexuality to be developed amongst society, specially when it comes to children and adolescents. Governments argue that adolescents and children are not ready (or are not rationally capable) to know what is happening to their bodies and minds. The most conservative part of some countries (commonly associated to religion) argue that experimenting and developing sexuality from an educative point of view may have consequences related to sin and disorder.

Although in many countries these types of law are still being discussed, general population has manifested in different ways in order to visualize them in front of the rest of the society. One of the most prominent activities that have come from the originality of participants in manifestations (in Spanish speaking countries) has been the change of the “o” letter in plural words by an “e” letter; in that way, “todos” (“all” in English, there are different words for groups of males and females, but no neutral words) is changed by “todes”, which means that all the genders are included in that word.

Finally, it is important to learn, study, and understand all the social changes that are related to gender because is a discussion every person need to have in order to have a more tolerant, more respectful, and better society so that every person feels part of it.

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.      How is known the concept that deals with this phenomenon?

5.      How can that concept be described?

6.      What is an old conception about gender?

7.      What are some of the identities the gender spectrum considers?

8.      What is a term that is used to refer to people that have a different gender than the one they were given at birth?

9.      Why is it advisable not to tell to other person if a young person tells you about his/her gender identity issues?

10.  Most societies have a clear division to male and female expressions. What is the name of the concept that deals with these two ways of understanding genre?

11.  What are the three main aspects that concern sex and gender?

12.  What is one argument not to let children and adolescents take control of their gender identity?

13.  One particular change has Spanish speaking countries applied to visualize gender minorities?

14.  Briefly explain why it is important for you (or not) to visualize gender identity?