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Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent, and consistent with the individual's gender identity.
- Robert J. Stoller
Robert Jesse Stoller (born on December 15, 1924 in...
- List of gender identities
This is a list of gender identities. Gender identity can be...
- Transgender
In 1994, the DSM IV entry was changed from "Transsexual" to...
- Wikipedia:Gender identity
As Wikipedia's article on the subject explains, "gender...
- Gender self-identification
Gender self-identification is the concept that a person's...
- Gender
Gender identity refers to a personal identification with a...
- Robert J. Stoller
- Definition and Common Identities
- Gender Expression
- Gender Identity in Anthropology
- Transgender and Transsexual
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Gender Identity is how a person identifies themselves. A person’s gender identity is based on what label and type they feel most comfortable aligning with. It can change throughout someone’s life, depending on how they feel during that time. Much of dominant society across cultures follows the construction of the gender binary, prescribing that eve...
Gender expression (also called, "gender presentation") means how a person dresses, looks, and acts, in ways that might affect how other people view their gender. Someone who wears men's clothes and acts in a masculine way has a male gender expression. Someone who wears women's clothes and acts in a feminine way has a female gender expression. This ...
Gender is a key concept in the field of anthropology. Gender and sex are defined differently in this field. Gender in regards to an individual's identity, and sex being biology determined. Gender identity, while can be tied to sex and biology in some, is not necessarily determined by these factors. Assumptions around gender identity based in biolog...
'Transgender' is a term that means that the gender assigned at birth (typically 'AMAB' or 'assigned male at birth' and 'AFAB' or 'assigned female at birth') does not match with the gender a person identifies as. The experiences that transgender people have are vast and may differ from one another, although there are sometimes shared experiences. Fo...
BORN FREE AND EQUAL - Sexual orientation and gender identity in international human rights law, 2012
