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  2. Gender roles among the Indigenous peoples of North America

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    Traditional Apache gender roles have many of the same skills learned by both females and males. All children traditionally learn how to cook, follow tracks, skin leather, sew stitches, ride horses, and use weapons. [2] Typically women gather vegetation such as fruits, roots, and seed. Women would often prepare the food.

  3. Gender dysphoria - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Gender dysphoria ( GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identity —their personal sense of their own gender —and their sex assigned at birth. [5] [6] The term replaced the previous diagnostic label of gender identity disorder ( GID) in 2013 with the release of the diagnostic manual DSM-5.

  4. Pansexuality - Wikipedia

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    Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people of all genders, or regardless of their sex or gender identity. [1] [2] Pansexual people might refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others. [3] [4]

  5. Trans woman - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. A trans woman (short for transgender woman) is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity and may experience gender dysphoria (distress brought upon by the discrepancy between a person's gender identity and their sex assigned at birth). [1] Gender dysphoria may be treated with gender-affirming care .

  6. Twink (gay slang) - Wikipedia

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    Twink (gay slang) This model, photographed for a twink-themed series, is a typical embodiment of the twink visual archetype. " Twink " is gay slang for a man who is usually (but not always) in his late teens to twenties whose traits may include a slim to average physique, a youthful appearance, little or no body hair, and flamboyancy. [1] [2 ...

  7. Gender script - Wikipedia

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    Gender script. A gender script is a concept in feminist studies that refers to structures or paths created by societal norms that one is supposed to follow based on the gender assigned to them at birth. The American Psychological Association defines gender script as "a temporally organized, gender-related sequence of events". [1] Gender script ...

  8. Life expectancy - Wikipedia

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    1) The curtate future lifetime , denoted K (x) {\displaystyle K(x)} , is a discrete random variable representing the remaining lifetime at age x {\displaystyle x} , rounded down to whole years. Life expectancy, more technically called the curtate expected lifetime and denoted e x {\displaystyle \,e_{x}\!} , [a] is the mean of K (x) {\displaystyle K(x)} —that is to say, the expected number of ...

  9. Man (word) - Wikipedia

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    In traditional usage, man (without an article) itself refers to the species or to humanity (mankind) as a whole. The Germanic word developed into Old English mann. In Old English, the word still primarily meant "person" or "human," and was used for men, women, and children alike. [1] [2] The sense "adult male" was very rare, at least in the ...