Question

When people differ in terms of how masculine or feminine (along a continuum) they identify themselves as, that is variation in ____________.

Group of answer choices

Sex

Personality

Orientation

Gender

Answer 1

Option last is the correct answer.

Gender, always described in terms of masculinity and femininity, is a social concept and may be different across different cultures and over time. There are a number of cultures, for example, in which greater gender diversity exists and sex and gender are not always neatly divided along binary lines such as male and female or homosexual and heterosexual. The Berdache in North America, the fa’afafine (Samoan for “the way of a woman”) in the Pacific, and the kathoey in Thailand are all examples of different gender categories that differ from the traditional Western division of people into males and females.