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Gender identity

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Intro to Sociology

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.

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