Several State Legislatures Introduced Laws Prohibiting Use of Public Restrooms

Multiple Choice

Several state legislatures introduced laws prohibiting use of public restrooms by a person of the wrong sex-that is,males must use the men's restroom,and females must use the women's restroom.The penalties vary considerably but can include jail time.The anthropological (and social) problem with these laws is that lawmakers fail to recognize that it is a matter of gender and not sex because

A) gender identity is expressed through actions such as using a restroom.
B) gender is about the different ways humans learn to behave and recognize behaviors as masculine or feminine due exclusively to innate biological traits.
C) gender,not sex,is the expectation of thought and behavior that each culture assigns to people of different sexes.
D) gender is a set of cultural ideas about the essential character of different genders that functions to promote and justify gender stratification.