Answer: The following Glossary of Terms from the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (www.gpac.org) should help with these definitions: Gender refers to the way we perceive things to be masculine or feminine. Such things need not be human. For example, in many cultures, cups are gendered feminine, and pencils masculine.

Gender identity refers to how an individual sees themself socially, as a woman, man, neither or both. It has no relation to their physical characteristics, but rather to how they choose to live their lives. This categorization may be fluid, over time or social situations.

The term gender refers to the economic, social and cultural attributes and opportunities associated with being male or female. In most societies, being a man or a woman is not simply a matter of different biological and physical characteristics. Men and women face different expectations about how they should dress, behave or work.

The clinical (or medical) term used to describe those people who describe themselves (or self-determine) as transsexual. The term 'transsexualism' is a misnomer. The clinical term is more accurate as a person's self-perceived identity is emphasised.

No one knows exactly how sexual orientation and gender identity determined. However, experts agree that it is a complicated matter of genetics, biology, psychological and social factors. For most people, sexual orientation and gender identity are shaped at any early age. While research has not determined a cause, homosexuality and gender variance are not the result of any one factor like parenting or past experiences.

Religious and secular organizations do sponsor campaigns and studies claiming that GLBT people can change their sexual orientation or gender identity because there is something wrong. PFLAG believes that it is our anti-GLBT attitudes, laws and policies that need to change, not our GLBT loved ones. These studies and campaigns suggesting that GLBT people can change are based on ideological biases and not peer-reviewed solid science.

If you want to request to be assigned housing based on your gender identity, rather than legal sex, you may indicate that option on the existing housing application. In the housing preference section, click the box Gender Identity, then click the appropriate box indicating Gender Identity Male (GIM) or Gender Identity Female (GIF). You will also have the option to indicate if you have a preferred first name in addition to your legal name as it appears on the application.

A person's gender identity is their internal sense of being male or female. Gender expression is how someone presents their gender to the world. We all have a gender identity, and we all have ways of expressing it. Our society has a narrow view of what it means to be a woman or a man, and we learn that from an early age.

GID is a psychological classification found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association. Although GID is the only diagnosis under which trans people may receive treatment, and therefore it is necessary, it also is controversial. Some psychotherapists GID has been used inappropriately and harmfully by to treat gender variant youth. Moreover, many if not most trans people also believe they do not have a mental disorder.

Sexual orientation refers to who people are attracted to; a homosexual orientation would be towards people of the same sex, a heterosexual orientation would be towards people of the opposite sex. A bisexual orientation would be towards either sex. Gender identity refers to how people define themselves as male, female, or something else entirely.

Beginning in Fall 2007, all incoming freshmen, transfers and new graduate students will have the option to request to be housed based on their gender identity. This option is open to all students, regardless of identity.

NYU will seek to place students who select this option in a room or suite with others of the same gender identity who have requested a room assignment on this basis. Every effort will be made to honor requests to be housed by gender identity, but if this is not possible, legal sex will be used in determining housing placement. NYU will make every effort to accommodate both your wish to be assigned housing based on gender identity, as well as your other preferences (i.e.

In this rare situation, your assignment status will default to your legal sex and you will be assigned accordingly. For more information, please contact Todd Smith, Director of the NYU Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Student Services at todd.smith@nyu.edu or by phone at 212-998-4424.

Answer: You cannot share the same bedroom with someone of the opposite gender. Men live with men, and women live with women. In Baker, Graves and Homan community style halls, a wing is designated as male or female; however, men and women live within the same building. Bathrooms are gender designated on each wing. Suites are also gender-designated.

The primary difference is that sexual identity refers to how an individual relates sexually to others while gender identity refers to how an individual relates to their gendered self. Terms such as asexual, heterosexual, homosexual and bisexual are terms relating to sexual identity.

Cholinergic crisis is when treatment is excessive and this also results in muscle weakness. Edrophonium can be used to tell the difference between the two. Edrophonium will improve muscle strength in myasthenic crisis (increase NMJ transmission) but make muscle weakness in cholinergic crisis worse (deepen the block). Answer: AchE inhibitors such as organophosphates and the carbamates cause increased levels of Ach at all sites that release Ach (ie.

Answer: For this years (99/00) competition there are two different sorties, a payload sortie and a return/ferry sortie. Only the payload sortie adds points to the flight score. The return/ferry sortie is required between payload sorties, and provides an additional and different design point. Teams may complete as many cycles of theses "sorties" as possible within their given 10 minute competition time period.

The idea of Catholic identity is discovered by asking the question: “What does it mean to be Catholic?” Further questions of delineation include “what distinguishes Christians from non-believers” and “what differentiates Catholics from other Christians.” This gets at more than a mere edifice of Catholic cultural practices to include the richness of the full truth about God and humanity as revealed by Jesus Christ in His Catholic Church.

ANSWER: Very common question. Twenty or thirty years ago, when folks were growing up that are NOW purchasing puppies, neutering and spaying was not commonly done. Gramma's intact male schnauzer (or poodle, chihuahua, etc) used to "mark" on the chair leg, so males got a bad reputation. However, neutered males and spayed females make equally good pets.

Although gender dysphoria is listed in the DSM IV as Gender Identity Disorder, most mental health practitioners do not consider transsexualism to be a mental illness per se. However, due to the discrimination and prejudice they face, many transsexuals do suffer from mental health issues secondary to their GID. Some of the most common are clinically significant levels of depression, anxiety, depersonalization and substance abuse/dependence.