ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the critically thinking about gender and biological sex as key variables of human experience. It provides the concept of intersex here as a way to further the process of critical thinking and to explore social constructionism. It seems to reveal itself through fetal development, in the form of chromosomes, gonads, genitalia and body sex, and hormones. The physiological structure of the eventual 'male' and 'female' genitalia is more similar than different. But the genital structures that develop in utero eventually become the primary visible symbol of maleness or femaleness. Gender differs across cultures and historical eras. The concept encompasses at least four key concepts: gender assignment; gender identity; gender role; and gender attribution. Things like the political structure, democracy, the economy, capitalism, and formal religion constitute these processes. The complex ways in which these sociocultural institutions maintain society, and persist and are perpetuated independently of specific individuals, are worth examining.
