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Gender incongruence is the state of having a gender identity that does not correspond to one's sex assigned at birth. This is experienced by people who identify as transgender or transsexual, and often results in gender dysphoria. [1] The causes of gender incongruence have been studied for decades.
Complicating the analysis argues Brubaker is the way in which, on the political left, race is a "more closely policed category" than gender, compared to the political right where sex and gender are "more closely policed." [1] Additionally, changing gender identity is given more sociological "legitimacy" than changing race. [1]
Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. [1] 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. [2]
Children who begin identifying as transgender at a young age tend to retain that identity at least for several years, a study published Wednesday suggests. Most children in the study were from ...
Educator, author, and advocate Schuyler Bailar lays out six important points of introspection around transgender identity from his new book "He/She/They."
“Overall I think ‘gender identity’ is a confusing term,” she says. “In some cases, it is just a substitute for the word ‘sex,’ as in, male or female, like when we talk about the ...
[183] [184] Though second-wave feminism argued for the sex and gender distinction, some feminists believed there was a conflict between transgender identity and the feminist cause; e.g., they believed that male-to-female transition abandoned or devalued female identity and that transgender people embraced traditional gender roles and ...
Both INAH3 (third interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus) area on the left side of the hypothalamus, which stores gender preference, and the center area of the bed stria terminalus (BSTc) area on the right side of the hypothalamus, which stores gender identity, are undeveloped and function as female. The action of the SRY gene in the ...