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| Gender identity is an internal sense of belonging to or being a gender, regardless of physical sexual characteristics. Most people identify as the gender that they were assigned at birth. They are described as 'cisgender' by the transgender community, who do not identify with their assigned birth genders.
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| ==Binary gender==
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| As the term implies, there are two binary genders, male and female, or man and woman. These genders are the only ones recognized in Western society. There is an assumption that people will come to identify as their assigned gender- those assigned female at birth as women and male at birth as men. [[Binary|Binary]] [[Transgender|transgender]] people subvert this assumption in that they identify as the binary genders they were not assigned: female-assigned trans people as men and male-assigned trans people as women.
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| ==Non-binary gender==
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| [[Non-Binary|Nonbinary gender]] is any gender that exists outside of the gender binary. That is, any gender not described by just "male" or "female". Even in societies that recognize only two genders, there are still people who find that they don't fit into those two. Despite the lack of recognition of nonbinary genders in Western [[binarism|binarist]] society, nonbinary genders are still valid identities.
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| ==Fluidity==
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| Gender identity can remain stable or shift over the course of an individual's life. [[Genderfluid |Genderfluid]] people experience frequent shifts in gender identity. | |
