Define the term gender panic and provide an example.
What will be an ideal response?
Gender panics are situations where people react to disruptions to biology-based gender ideology by frantically reasserting the naturalness of a male-female binary. Several examples were mentioned in the chapter including situations where transwomen with male anatomies may be housed with female prisoners or transwomen with male genitalia using women’s bathrooms.
You might also like to view...
The postmodern family has emerged as a new family form as a consequence of economic uncertainty and domestic upheavals, which require innovative ways to cope
a. true b. false
The sociological term used to define such designations as mother, husband, and student is status
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Communication processes are examples of _____.
A. nonmaterial facts B. social perspectives C. enigmatic perspectives D. social dynamics E. nonempirical facts
What is one reason sociologists consider the "scientific" racial types of Caucasian, Mongoloid, and Negroid to be misleading and even harmful?
a. Every society's population is homogenous. b. Various racial categories are genetically very dissimilar. c. The skin colour of many different races ranges from very light to very dark. d. Mongoloid is no longer an acceptable term to use.