Activity for the book My Psychology

Chapter App 10.3 Transgender

Use your experience with the app in Chapter App: 10.3 Transgender or view this video overview to answer the questions.

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The Refuge Restroom app focuses specifically on accessibility to suit the user’s gender, rather than their sex. What is the key distinction between these two terms?
In addition to highlighting safe and comfortable spaces for gender nonconforming individuals, the Refuge Restroom creators also hope to foster awareness for issues related to gender identity. What is the term given to someone whose gender and sex match?
Terry is a cisgender male who contributes to the Refuge Restroom app because he is actively involved in the transgender community. He seeks ways to interact more effectively with individuals of different genders, orientations, ethnicities, and religions. Terry’s efforts in these areas will help to boost his intelligence.
Services like Refuge Restroom seek to bring awareness to issues affecting non-gender conforming individuals. Underlying this goal is an understanding that an individual’s gender evolves over time and depends on a number of factors. This evolving process is known as .
Refuge Restroom, and other services that seek to ease the burden on minority populations, reveals that something as simple as the way an establishment displays its restrooms can be potentially offensive, even if unintentional. What is the name for an everyday action or comment that might contain a hostile or an off-putting message for members of certain cultures?