Is knowing one's biological origins a right?

I'm currently working on my MA linguistic thesis that deals with narratives of people suffering from Sexual Orientation Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (SO-OCD or also called HOCD). My aim is to do a corpus analysis and critical discourse analysis of these narratives and compare them to coming out narratives of self-identified gay people. My aim is to explore if both groups share some similarities or if there are differences.

I am interested in the cultural perspective regarding the development of our gender, as I believe that our culture affects how we view this concept. Particularly, I would like to know the research done regarding this topic in different cultural contexts.

My colleague's thesis consists of a situation where she has performed a t-test to analyse the differences between male and female respondents' responses with respect to all the independent and dependent variables in the study. Is it right to do so? If yes, please elicit references.

Is Chi-square a more appropriate test in this situation? If yes, please elicit references.

To  be precise, the thesis proposed to compare male and female respondent differences across all their independent and dependent variables measured through a structured questionnaire of 55 items on a 5-point likert scale of respondents' self-reported opinions of agree/disagree and neutral types through that particular hypothesis

I am currently researching if there is a difference between younger and older adults' recalling of names that differ in gender. However, I cannot find any published articles that have investigated males or females that show a recall bias in the gender of the names. If anyone can point me in the right direction that would be really helpful.

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Nick

I am working on the relationships between attitudes and behaviors in explaining men's contribution to housework. I am looking for a clear theoretical distinction between attitudes, values, norms, beliefs and preferences since I've seen that different disciplines use them as synonyms. Thank you

Hello,

are you aware of any Guidelines/Manuals/Information which take into account the needs or the special circumstances of Lesbians/Gays/Bisexuals/Transgender/ queers* when they experience highly stressful situations such as domestic violence or homelessness?

I am looking especially for something aimed at first responders (e.g. Crisis hotline).

Thank you!

This is a slightly controversial question, however I can't seem to find much on the issue. I am currently conducting a study which aims to look at the differences between males and females. However, I have had a couple of transgender people take part in the study. The study involves peer ratings of these participants in video clips. Ethically and morally I would like to group these individuals into the gender categories they define themselves as, i.e. if they define as male then they are male. However, could this bias my results at all when I'm specifically examining males and females as the IV? Is there any way around this? Has anyone else had a similar issue? Are there any papers that discuss this? I don't want to exclude anyone from the study as this is not representative.

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International norms have failed to justify realisation, implementation and enforcement of universal human rights, in some UN member states by individuals affected by controversial issues including racial discrimination, socioeconomic marginalisation, LGBT rights and slavery reparations.