Definition of gender identity Gender identity
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What does gender identity mean?
WordNet
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| gender identity - your identity as it is experienced with regard to your individuality as male or female; awareness normally begin in infancy and is reinforced during adolescence |
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Wiktionary 
- gender identity (Noun)
A person's sense of self as a member of a particular gender.
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In sociology, gender identity describes the gender that a person identifies themselves with (i.e, whether a person sees themself to be a man, a woman, or describes themself in a less conventional way), but can also be used to refer to the gender that other people apply to the individual based on what they know from gender role indications (clothing, hair style, etc.).
Transgender and transsexual.
People who have a gender identity that is different from the sex of their body are called transgender. Some transgender people change their body to make it more like their gender identity. These people may have surgery or take medicines to change their body. They are called transsexual.
Gender presentation.
Gender presentation or "gender role" means how a person dresses, looks, and acts. Someone who wears men's clothes, has a job that men usually have, and acts in a masculine way has a "male gender presentation." This is different from "gender identity" because people can choose to act one way even if that is not how they feel inside.
Sometimes people just call this "presentation".
Sex, presentation, and identity.
These can be confusing because most people have a sex, gender presentation, and gender identity that are the same. When we talk about 'male' we usually think this means all three things. We also usually assume that this means he likes women. In most people they are all the same – either male or female. But in transgender people they can be different.
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