Psychology / Unit 9 Psych 1019 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Gender Identity
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The idea
Gender identity is a person's internal sense of their own gender, which may or may not correspond to their sex assigned at birth.
In practice
A person assigned male at birth consistently identifies as a woman from early childhood.
Where people slip
Gender identity and sexual orientation are separate dimensions. Neither predicts the other.
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