Search Results for “Gender”

A person’s experience of their own gender; a person’s innermost concept of self as masculine, feminine, a blend of both, another gender(s), or none. This is not always congruent with biological sex or gender assigned at birth.

The distress people might feel when their gender identity does not align with the gender and/or sex they were assigned at birth, their physical characteristics, or the treatment others subject them to.

Elements of a person’s behavior, mannerisms, interests, and appearance, in relation to ideas of gender. Gender can be expressed via clothing, hair style, nail polish, gestures and mannerisms, vocal expressions, pronouns, and a wide range of other modes.

An overwhelming feeling of joy that results from aligning one's gender expression with their identity.

An outdated abbreviation which stands for Preferred Gender Pronouns. The term “pronouns” is now preferred to PGP and is widely accepted as such, because someone’s pronouns are their pronouns and not a matter of preference.

Either a stand-alone identity that describes those with a gender outside of the binary, or as an umbrella term to describe a spectrum of non-binary gender identities. When serving as a stand-alone identity, it can encompass individuals who identify as both a man and a woman; neither man nor woman; moving between two or more genders; or having an overlap or blur of gender and orientation.