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Gender Identity and Sex\n\n<\/h2>\n\n
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Gender is an interplay of bodily, social, cultural and legal factors.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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At the time of a child\u2019s birth, the sex is assigned to be female or male based on external sexual characteristics. If these are not clear, the internal organs, hormones and genes are examined. If the sex cannot be clearly determined as female or male at birth, one speaks of intersexuality. However, in Switzerland and in many other countries, only the categories \u201cmale\u201d or \u201cfemale\u201d are legally provided for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This type of sex assignement and the legal dichotomy often leads to unnecessary operations. The UN condemns these irreversible interventions as torture. It has also reprimanded Switzerland for not prohibiting such operations by law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As a person grows up, their gender is formed by their environment, behaviour and self-image. Often the assignment of sex at birth means that children assigned female are brought up as girls and children assigned male as boys. Stereotypically, this means that girls play with dolls and boys with cars. Gender roles are learned in this way and these in turn influence a person\u2019s capabilities, preferences and behaviour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gender is complex and is influenced by various factors. Five dimensions of gender and sex can be distinguished. Of these, one is biological (body), one is psychological (identity) and three dimensions are social (sexual orientation, gender expression and role). Therefore, gender is biopsychosocial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gender and sex expressions, https:\/\/www.geschlechter-radar.org\/normativ-expansiv\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Who am I? <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Legally, only the two genders \u201cman\u201d and \u201cwoman\u201d are permitted in Switzerland. Non-conforming behaviour in relation to gender roles is often discriminated against. Nevertheless, the stereotypical ideas of man and woman scarcely apply fully to anyone. Rather, gender is a fluid, ambivalent category. We all have a number of characteristics that can also be contradictory. It does not really matter whether we describe these character traits as female or male.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men who appear womanlike and women who seem boyish are also referred to as androgynous. Art, particularly in the 1970s, played with concepts of androgyny, cross-dressing and drag performance and celebrates queer joy. In 1974, the Kunstmuseum Luzern devoted the exhibition Transformer. Aspekte der Travestie <\/em>to the phenomenon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Walter Pfeiffer took the photograph series Carlo Joh<\/em> for the Transformer<\/em> exhibition. In those photographs, the model Carlo explores the field of tension between masculine and feminine and tries out different gender roles. Carlo Joh, and with him the photographer Walter Pfeiffer, examined the \u2018not only but also\u2019. Cross-dressing and the game with beauty and ambivalence combine here to create a fragile individual portrait.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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