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Gender identity

Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025
Written by the Fiveable Content Team โ€ข Last updated September 2025

Definition

Gender identity is an individual's personal sense of their own gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex they were assigned at birth. It is a deeply felt experience of gender, which could be male, female, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum.