Gender identity

Gender identity is a person's internal, deeply held sense of their own gender (or lack thereof). Unlike gender expression, gender identity is not visible to others. An individual's gender identity may or may not align with their birth assignment. Most people have a binary gender identity—male/man/boy or female/woman/girl—whether they are cisgender or transgender. For other people, their gender identity does not fit neatly into one of those two options, such as people who are non-binary or genderqueer.
A person's gender identity usually develops when they are very young. Gender variance in exploring gender expressions and gender roles is an expected part of human development for children and teenagers. Most children and adolescents with variance in these behaviors have a gender identity that corresponds to their birth assignment, and this exploration does not necessarily indicate a gender-variant identity. A small percentage of children wish they were another gender instead of the gender assigned at birth. An individual's realization that their gender identity differs from their birth assignment can occur as early as three years old, in childhood prior to the onset of puberty, or later in life. This progression is similar to the awareness of same-sex attraction in childhood developing into using a specific sexual orientation term as a teenager.
==Examples==
The gender identities below are ordered alphabetically rather than by type.
===Agender===
===Bigender===
===Demigender===
===Genderfluid===
===Genderqueer===
===Neurogender===
===Neutrois===
===Non-binary===
===Pangender===
===Queer===
===Xenogender===
==See also==
* Romantic orientation
* Sexual orientation
==Notes==
==References==
 
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