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Gender identity

The social and cultural categories that are sometimes conflated with biological sex.

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Jan 14, 2026
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Is a transgender woman really a woman

Mainstream medical, advocacy and major lexical sources define a transgender woman as a person who was assigned male at birth but lives and identifies as a woman, and they treat that identity as womanh...

Feb 5, 2026

How many sexes are there

Biologically, scientists most commonly define sex by reproductive role—who produces small, mobile gametes (sperm) and who produces large, nutrient-rich gametes (ova)—which yields two sexes, male and f...

Jan 15, 2026

What are the medical and scientific definitions of biological sex and gender identity?

Medical and scientific literature distinguishes biological sex — a set of physical, genetic and reproductive characteristics — from gender identity — a person’s internal sense of being a man, woman, b...

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