Fausto-Sterling

Anne Fausto-Sterling is a Professor of Biology and Women’s Studies at Brown University. Sterling wrote, “The Five Sexes Revisited” between July and August of 2000. Sterling is responding to the scientists in the same profession. As well as intersexual and transgendered people in-between male and female. Fausto-Sterling argument is that sex and gender best understood not as a continuum, but rather as a multi-dimensional space. The first thing that Fausto-Sterling claims when arguing that sex and gender best understood not as a continuum, but rather as a multi-dimensional is gender development between “sex at the genetic level and cellular level” (Fausto-Sterling 22). Fausto-Sterling on multi-dimensional space is that sex and gender are

Anatomical level involves the “genitals and secondary sexual characteristics” (Fausto-Sterling 22). During the anatomical level not all the genitals will allow a person to become distinctly identified as a male or female. Many people would use both sex, gender and gender traits to judge individuals as either male or female on a single spectrum. Gender identity of being identified as a male or female can be “poorly understood interaction with environment and experience” (Fausto-Sterling 22). People with gender identity issues are confused on the fact of how society views their sexuality either as a male, female or both. Gender identity is a way for a person to identify themselves with what they believe is their true identity; despite the physical characteristics. The gender development levels show that “masculinity and femininity is in almost every possible permutation” (Fausto-Sterling 22). Masculinity and femininity has a lot of variations between the chromosomal, hormonal and genital level. “A chromosomal, hormonal and genital male emerges with a female gender identity” (Fausto-Sterling 22). A transgendered male is still prone to