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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...

umbrella terms for gender identities that are not solely male or female (identities outside the gender binary). Non-binary identities often fall under the...

Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identity—their personal sense of their own gender—and...

significant discontent (gender dysphoria) due to a mismatch between their assigned sex and gender identity. The diagnostic label gender identity disorder in children...

Identity politics is politics based on a particular identity, such as race, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social background, caste...

match masculine or feminine gender norms. A gender-nonconforming person may be variant in their gender identity, being transgender or non-binary, or they...

Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity. Depending on the context, this...

transgender person (often shortened to trans person) is someone whose gender identity differs from that typically associated with the sex they were assigned...

(often shortened to cis; sometimes cissexual) describes a person whose gender identity corresponds to their sex assigned at birth, i.e., someone who is not...

Gender identity refers to an individual's internal sense of their own gender, influenced by social contexts and personal experiences. This identity intersects...

The anti-gender movement is an international movement that opposes what it refers to as "gender ideology", "gender theory", or "genderism", terms which...

it refers to as "gender ideology": the concept of gender identity and transgender rights, especially gender self-identification. Gender-critical feminists...

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity is a 2019 book by conservative British journalist and political commentator Douglas Murray. It was published...

essentialism refers to the problem of theorizing gender as both an identity and a mark of difference. This refers to a problem for the concept of subjectivity...

(gender role) or personal identification of one's own gender based on an internal awareness (gender identity). Most contemporary social scientists, behavioral...

rights of transgender individuals, but others have criminalized their gender identity or expression. In many cases, transgender individuals face discrimination...

designate people who were assigned male at birth and develop a feminine gender identity. Other terms have been invented and are used in South America in an...

(which can be synonymous with LGBT) or are questioning their sexual or gender identity. Another variation, LGBTQ+, adds a plus sign "represents those who...

Gender Identity Organization of Iran (GID) is an Iranian non-governmental organization established in 2008 to support people with gender identity problems...

Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and head of its Gender Identity Service until December 2015. Zucker is a professor in the departments...