In this project, professor Valdes focus is to look into and change the manipulations in conflation of sex, gender and sexual orientation. Historically people have mixed the three classes together, have miss used them by changing their meanings and as a consequence there has been a negative impact.

For professor Valdes conflation’s meaning in this project includes the historic and contemporary confusion and distortion of sex, gender and sexual orientation as social  and legal construct. Because theres room for interpretation in conflation, often it has been misused and legally cannot help gender discriminating cases. Not to long ago in our Euro-American society same sex marriage was illegal. Traveling a little further back in time the same society automatically assumed that once one is born with a type of sex, that was their gender as well. Thus the accepted normal marriage was between a male and female. Anything outside of this social norm was illegal.  This is just a simple example to understand the deep mistakes that are done while writting laws to protect human rights, specifically the ones addressing gender discrimination.

Valdes makes a great point to how conflation is socially constructed and the best way to initiate writing laws that support Queer Theory is the non-conflationary way.

Hello everyone,

I’m Driselda Cuko, senior student studying Human Biology at Hunter College. Looking forward the learn the fundamentals of human sexuality, understanding how that effects ones social life and how their psychological is related to all above. Working fulltime in the beauty industry I’m exposed to gender identity and ones sexualism very often.

My goal is that after completing this class I will have a better understanding In the development of human sexuality, that would help me professionally and personally!

Looking forward to work and learn from all of you!