Mental Process
gender identity
gen·der i·den·ti·ty [ jen-der ahy-den-ti-tee, ih-den- ]
Subclass of:
Identification (Psychology);
Psychosexual Development
Definitions related to gender identity:
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A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.NLM Medical Subject HeadingsU.S. National Library of Medicine, 2021
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A person's internally held sense of their gender, which may or may not correspond to the individual's genotypic or phenotypic sex.NCI ThesaurusU.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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Various terms are used to talk about sex and gender: Sex refers to a person's anatomy: male, female, or not clearly male or female (ambiguous genitals, or intersex).Merck & Co., Inc., 2020
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Gender identity and gender role Gender identity is defined as a personal conception of oneself as male or female (or rarely, both or neither). This concept is intimately related to the concept of gender role, which is defined as the outward manifestations of personality that reflect the gender identity.WebMD, 2019
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Gender identity, an individual's self-conception as a man or woman or as a boy or girl or as some combination of man/boy and woman/girl or as someone fluctuating between man/boy and woman/girl or as someone outside those categories altogether. It is distinguished from actual biological sex--i.e....Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 2020
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