A 10-year-old boy cries easily, and his friends often say, "Stop acting like a girl! Boys don't cry!" The boy still feels like crying, but he learns to stop the feeling before it leads to tears that his friends would see. This is an example of.

gender socialization

Explanation:

Gender socialization is the mechanism through which we know the gender rules, values, and expectations of our society. Children begin to develop their own gender values through the process of gender socialization and eventually shape their own gender identity influenced by same-gender models. Parents, teachers, friends and the media are the most important agents of gender socialization.

is there answer choices?

there are no options provided but you can choose among the following gender-neutral pronouns: zir, hir, eir, vis, tem, eir.

in the normal course of maintaining a pronoun-antecedent agreement, we could have used the words his or her but since we are also required to use gender-neutral language, we need to replace it with its equivalent gender-neutral pronoun.