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| quote = What is gender after all? It seems to be something so fundamental for our current society that even pronouns are sorted by these criteria. And yet, I realized that despite that, and despite being queer, I didn't have a much better explanation than "It's a social construct and perhaps also some other things." | | quote = What is gender after all? It seems to be something so fundamental for our current society that even pronouns are sorted by these criteria. And yet, I realized that despite that, and despite being queer, I didn't have a much better explanation than "It's a social construct and perhaps also some other things." | ||
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'''Gender''' | '''Gender''' is a term that encompasses various human traits that, in a given society, are traditionally grouped together.<ref name="who gender">{{Cite web|url=https://www.who.int/health-topics/gender|title=Gender and health|website=World Health Organization}}</ref> These traits can include learned behaviors and roles, biological traits (as understood by society), appearance, and more.<ref name="FYI gender">{{Cite web|url=https://genderdysphoria.fyi/en/what-is-gender|title=What is Gender?|website=The Gender Dysphoria Bible}}</ref> In Western societies, this notion traditionally corresponds to the binary sexes, [[male]] and [[female]], though this is not always the case.<ref name=":0">https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/gender</ref> Many non-Western cultures have [[Gender-variant identities worldwide|traditional genders besides male and female]], and there is a growing number of people, even in Western society, who identify as [[nonbinary]] or [[genderqueer]]. | ||
== | [[Gender identity]] refers specifically to the internal sense of one's gender.<ref name="MorrowMessinger">{{cite book | vauthors = Morrow DF | chapter = Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Expression. | veditors = Morrow DF, Messinger L | title = Sexual orientation and gender expression in social work practice: working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people | date = 2006 | publisher = Columbia University Press | location = New York | isbn = 978-0-231-50186-6 | pages = 3–17 (8) | quote = Gender identity refers to an individual's personal sense of identity as masculine or feminine, or some combination thereof. | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=irs3BAAAQBAJ&dq=978-0-231-50186-6&pg=PA8 | access-date = 19 December 2021 | archive-date = 19 December 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211219122137/https://books.google.com/books?id=irs3BAAAQBAJ&dq=978-0-231-50186-6&pg=PA8 | url-status = live }}</ref> People who identify with their assigned gender at birth ([[AGAB]]) are referred to as [[cisgender]]; those who do not are referred to as [[transgender]]. People who identify as the other binary gender than what they were assigned at birth are sometimes called binary transgender; those who identify as something else are called nonbinary or genderqueer.{{Citation needed}} | ||
Sex itself isn't binary, it's also a spectrum, such as male, female, intersex and others. When someone identifies as a certain gender, such as a man, woman, nonbinary or others, it is not a self ideology, it's a fact, it's who they are. <ref name=":1">https://www.genderspectrum.org/quick-links/understanding-gender/</ref> | |||
== History of the term "gender" == | |||
The word "gender" is derived from the Old French word "gendre", based on the Latin word "genus," meaning kind, type, class. Gender is also often used to denote grammatical categories of words in some languages.<ref name=":0"/> | The word "gender" is derived from the Old French word "gendre", based on the Latin word "genus," meaning kind, type, class. Gender is also often used to denote grammatical categories of words in some languages.<ref name=":0"/> | ||
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== Gender identity == | == Gender identity == | ||
{{Main article|Gender identity}} | {{Main article|Gender identity}} | ||
Gender identity is the internal sense of one's own gender, regardless of physical characteristics, appearance, behaviour or sexual orientation. People who identify with the gender they were assigned at birth are [[cisgender]], while people whose gender identity differ from their assigned gender are [[transgender]] or [[nonbinary]].<ref group="note">While generally a nonbinary person is transgender by definition, some nonbinary people prefer to avoid the ''transgender'' label for themselves.</ref> | Gender identity is the internal sense of one's own gender, regardless of physical characteristics, appearance, behaviour or sexual orientation.<ref name="MorrowMessinger"/> People who identify with the gender they were assigned at birth are [[cisgender]], while people whose gender identity differ from their assigned gender are [[transgender]] or [[nonbinary]].<ref group="note">While generally a nonbinary person is transgender by definition, some nonbinary people prefer to avoid the ''transgender'' label for themselves.</ref> | ||
== Gender expression == | == Gender expression == | ||