Your gender identity isn’t seen by others. Gender identity is your deeply-held inner feelings of whether you’re female or male, both, or neither.
Others may self-identify as being transgender, agender, Two-Spirit, gender queer, non-binary, gender fluid or any number of terms (explained below). It’s how your identity relates to society’s idea of what it means to be a woman, man, neither, or a mix of many genders.įor most people, their gender matches up with the cultural expectations of the sex they were assigned at birth.
