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Gender Identity (Topical Term)

Preferred form: Gender Identity
Used for/see from:
  • Gender Role
  • Sex Role
  • n: Gender
  • n: Gender Identities
  • n: Gender Roles
  • n: Identity, Gender
  • n: Man's Role
  • n: Men's Role
  • n: Role, Man's
  • n: Role, Men's
  • n: Role, Sex
  • n: Role, Woman's
  • n: Role, Women's
  • n: Roles, Gender
  • n: Roles, Men's
  • n: Roles, Sex
  • n: Roles, Woman's
  • n: Roles, Women's
  • n: Sex Roles
  • n: Woman's Role
  • n: Woman's Roles
  • n: Women's Role
  • n: Women's Roles

psychological; do not confuse with SEX CHARACTERISTICS (physiological); do not confuse with SEXUAL ORIENTATION see SEX BEHAVIOR: gender identity is knowing that one is male or female; sexual orientation is preferring heterosexual or homosexual behavior; no qualif

A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.

1991(1975); for GENDER use SEX 1991-2003

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