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Gender nonconformity. Gender nonconformity or gender variance is behavior or gender expression by an individual that does not match masculine or feminine gender norms. A gender-nonconforming person may be variant in their gender identity, being transgender or non-binary, or they may be cisgender.
A significant 2015 study by the National Center for Transgender Equality surveyed nearly 28,000 transgender people in the United States, finding that 35% identified as non-binary or genderqueer. Among them, 84% used pronouns different from those associated with the gender on their birth certificates. The breakdown of preferred pronouns was 37% ...
The United States has seen increasing social trends since the early 21st century that allow for less rigid expression of one's own gender identity, and gender-nonconforming people may express a range of masculine and feminine traits. The term transgender has become more common in part to reflect such diversity of gender expression. [2]
"Gender identity is an identifier someone uses to communicate how they understand their personal gender, navigate within or outside our societal gender systems, and/or desire to be perceived by ...
The law comes into force in November 2024, repealing the Transsexual Law and amending the Third Gender Law to allow the legal recognition of non-intersex non-binary people as "diverse". Persons aged 14 to 18 years can change their gender on government documents in the presence of their parents.
An August 2021 study published in the medical journal Pediatrics found that transgender and gender-non-conforming adolescents are more likely to experience physical, psychological and sexual abuse ...
With 1.4 million Instagram followers, Tommy Dorfman is one of the breakout stars of Netflix’s “13 Reasons Why.” But when Dorfman, who is gender-nonconforming and goes by the pronouns “they ...
Childhood gender nonconformity. Childhood gender nonconformity (CGN) is a phenomenon in which prepubescent children do not conform to expected gender -related sociological or psychological patterns, or identify with the opposite sex/gender. [1] Typical behavior among those who exhibit the phenomenon includes but is not limited to a propensity ...