The gay and lesbian community was viewed as just another constituency group or minority. The social constructivist stance is strengthened by the above cultural and economic changes. Today Native American homosexuals are treated with much disdain, no longer are they considered a gifted, respected part of the community. The reason here for the focus on homosexual identity is that sexual identity itself did not need to exist prior to the advent of the social construction of the homosexual. Definitively, sexual identity is difficult to pin down.
Biological sex is usually easy to ascertain.
The doctor normally congratulates the parents on a bouncing baby boy or a beautiful baby girl. Of course, there are situations in which a visual determination is not always possible. At these times, chromosomal sex is determined. Gender identity is basically one's conviction of being male or female. This is not contingent upon biological sex.