Gender identity
When you’re born, doctors write down information about you:
- who your parents are
- the time you were born
- health information
- your sex
When doctors determine what sex a baby is, they look at its genitals to see if they have female or male sexual organs. This then tells them if the baby is a girl or a boy. (For some people this is not clear, and they are called intersex people).
However, as some people grow up, they don’t feel that their gender matches the sex the doctors said they were when they were born. They may use the term transgender or trans to describe themselves. There are also those who do not feel they identify as either a girl or a boy and they may describe themselves as non-binary.
So, someone’s gender identity is how someone identifies their gender, not what private parts they have (their biological sex.) There are many different gender identities and many different terms people use to describe their identities.
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