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Gender identity

A person's internal sense of being a man, woman, both, neither, or another identity.

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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...

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...