Gender Identity
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A Gender Identity is a collective identity associated with gender.
- Context:
- It can range from being a Self Gender Identity to being an Assigned Gender Identity.
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- See: Gender Expression, Gender Dysphoria, Assigned Sex, Gender Binary, Masculinity, Femininity, Sex and Gender, Sex.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gender_identity Retrieved:2020-1-16.
- Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender.[1] Gender identity can correlate with assigned sex at birth or can differ from it. All societies have a set of gender categories that can serve as the basis of the formation of a person's social identity in relation to other members of society. [2] . The term was originally coined by Robert J. Stoller in 1964. In most societies, there is a basic division between gender attributes assigned to males and females, a gender binary to which most people adhere and which includes expectations of masculinity and femininity in all aspects of sex and gender: biological sex, gender identity, and gender expression. [3] Some people do not identify with some, or all, of the aspects of gender assigned to their biological sex; [4] some of those people are transgender, non-binary or genderqueer. Some societies have third gender categories. Gender identity is usually formed by age three. After age three, it is extremely difficult to change and attempts to reassign it can result in gender dysphoria. Both biological and social factors have been suggested to influence its formation.
- ↑ Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice, edited by Deana F. Morrow and Lori Messinger (2006, ), p. 8: "Gender identity refers to an individual's personal sense of identity as masculine or feminine, or some combination thereof."
- ↑ V. M. Moghadam, Patriarchy and the politics of gender in modernising societies, in International Sociology, 1992: "All societies have gender systems."
- ↑ Jack David Eller, Culture and Diversity in the United States (2015, ), p. 137: "most Western societies, including the United States, traditionally operate with a binary notion of sex/gender"
- ↑ For example, "transvestites [who do not identify with the dress assigned to their sex] existed in almost all societies." (G. O. MacKenzie, Transgender Nation (1994, ), p. 43.) "There are records of males and females crossing over throughout history and in virtually every culture. It is simply a naturally occurring part of all societies." (Charles Zastrow, Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People (2013, ), p. 234, quoting the North Alabama Gender Center.)