Relevance: Sociology: Stratification and Mobility: Dimensions – Social stratification of class, status groups, gender, ethnicity and race.
INTRODUCTION
Our gender identity is how we feel in relation to being male or female – and there are different terms, descriptions and labels for different types of gender identities. We describe some of these terms.
Agender
Not having a gender or identifying with a gender. They may describe themselves as being gender neutral or genderless.
Bigender
A person who fluctuates between traditionally “male” and “female” gender-based behaviours and identities.
Cisgender
A person whose gender identity and biological sex assigned at birth are the same. For example they were born biologically as a male, and express their gender as male.
Gender Expression
The external display of one’s gender, through a combination of how they dress, how they act and other factors, generally measured on scales of masculinity and femininity.
Gender Fluid
A mix of boy and girl. A person who is gender fluid may always feel like a mix of the two traditional genders, but may feel more man some days, and more woman other days.
Genderqueer
A gender identity label often used by people who do not identify with being a man or a woman, or as an umbrella term for many gender non-conforming or non-binary identities.
Intersex
A person born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male. For example, a person might be born appearing to be female on the outside, but having mostly male-typical anatomy on the inside.
Gender Variant
Someone who either by nature or by choice does not conform to gender-based expectations of society
Mx.
Is a title (e.g. Mr., Ms., etc.) that is gender neutral. Pronounced miks, (similar to Ms) it is often the option of choice for folks who do not identify as cisgender.
Third Gender
A term for a person who does not identify with either man or woman, but identifies with another gender. This gender category is used by societies that recognise three or more genders, both contemporary and historic, and is also a conceptual term meaning different things to different people who use it.
Transgender
A person who lives as a member of a gender other than that expected based on sex assigned at birth.
Non-Binary
Non-binary is an umbrella term for people whose gender is not just male or female, Dr. Powell explains. And (staying on the theme) this word may have different meanings to different people. “Non-binary is anyone… outside of gender, or someone who is transgender, or people who don’t fall strictly within the binary at all,” Dr. Powell says. Someone can be trans, genderfluid, genderqueer, and non-binary all at the same time.
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