Question
The indie rock musician Antony Hegarty has always identified as transgender but has never taken medical steps to change her sex. During one tour, she performed a live cover of “Crazy in Love,” originally recorded by the pop superstar Beyoncé. At the end of one performance of the song, she laughed and said, “Who says I’m not a teenage girl?” Although she might have been joking, her words suggest that:
A although gender is socially constructed, by our teen years our gender identity is almost set in stone.
B primary sex characteristics always have a stranglehold on our gender identity, determining how we will be classified and how we classify ourselves.
C some individuals’ sense of self and gender identity differ from their physical sex.
D society develops the gender roles that will be most useful in maintaining equilibrium.
This question is taken from Soc 1010 – Introduction to Sociology » Spring 2022 » Quiz 7
