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The 65 pages that link to Gender identity, each with the reason it gives.

• Gender roleCompared with: An identity is personal; a role is a set of social expectations.

• Sexual orientationCompared with: It concerns who someone is, not whom they are attracted to.

• Gender performativityCompared with: Performativity is an account of identity’s social formation, not a synonym for personal identity.

• GenderBroader topic: Identity is one part of gender, distinct from social roles and expectations.

• Gender expressionRelated: Expression can communicate gender, but it does not determine a person's internal identity.

• MasculinityRelated: Masculinity can describe identity as well as socially expected behavior.

• Gender essentialismRelated: Distinguishing identity from presumed shared traits prevents essentialist generalizations about all women or men.

• IntersexCompared with: Intersex describes sex-trait variation, not a person's gender identity.

• Sex therapyRelated: Gender-affirming care can be relevant when identity, embodiment, or social context affects sexual wellbeing.

• Gender dysphoriaNarrower topic: The diagnosis concerns distress associated with incongruence involving this sense of gender.

• Gender inequalityRelated: Definitions and data collection shape which gendered disparities can be identified.

• Gender-affirming careNarrower topic: Care affirms the person's own understanding of gender rather than imposing an identity.

• TransgenderRelated: Transgender describes a difference between gender identity and sex assigned at birth.

• Conversion therapyNarrower topic: Practices may aim to suppress or alter a person’s experienced gender.

• Gender nonconformityRelated: Identity is distinct from the outward expression that the concept describes.

• AndrogynyCompared with: Androgynous presentation does not by itself establish a person's gender identity.

• Gender socializationRelated: Identity is distinct from the social expectations learned through gender socialization.

• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against WomenRelated: Debates over the Convention’s scope include how its protections apply to transgender and gender-diverse people.

• SexologyRelated: Sexology examines how gender identity relates to sexuality without treating them as identical.

• Gender normsCompared with: Identity is a personal experience; norms are social expectations that may or may not align with it.

• Queer literatureRelated: It helps distinguish gendered experience from sexual orientation in literary characters and authors.

• Sexual identityCompared with: Gender identity concerns gender, while sexual identity concerns sexuality.

• Sexual medicineRelated: Gender-affirming and respectful care requires understanding identity without assuming anatomy or needs.

• Transgender rightsNarrower topic: Many protections address discrimination based on gender identity rather than anatomy or assigned sex.

• CisgenderNarrower topic: Cisgender status is defined by how this identity relates to sex assigned at birth.

• Identification (psychology)Related: Identification with gendered roles or figures can contribute to some developmental accounts of gender identity.

• Sex and gender distinctionRelated: It is a central dimension of gender distinguished from bodily sex traits.

• Sex assignmentCompared with: It is not determined by the sex designation recorded at birth.

• Sexual differentiationCompared with: Gender identity is distinct from the bodily developmental processes described here.

• Cross-dressingRelated: Clothing choices alone do not establish the wearer’s gender identity.

• HomosexualityCompared with: Homosexuality concerns attraction, not a person’s gender identity.

• DeadnamingNarrower topic: Deadnaming can deny the gender identity a person’s current name expresses.

• Gender binaryRelated: Identity can fit, complicate, or reject the binary’s categories.

• Gender-affirming surgeryNarrower topic: It is the identity that a person may seek to have reflected in bodily traits.

• MisgenderingNarrower topic: The mismatch between language and this self-understanding defines misgendering.

• Romantic orientationCompared with: It concerns one's own gender, unlike orientation's pattern of attraction toward others.

• Social construction of genderRelated: Social meanings influence the categories through which people understand and express identity.

• Biological sexCompared with: It describes self-understanding rather than reproductive anatomy or chromosomes.

• Chosen nameRelated: For many transgender and nonbinary people, a chosen name expresses gender identity.

• Human sexualityCompared with: Gender identity concerns gender, not patterns of sexual attraction or expression.

• Magnus HirschfeldRelated: His clinical work addressed people whose gender expression or identity diverged from social expectations.

• FemininityRelated: A feminine identity can be central, partial, or absent in a person's sense of gender.

• Gender transitionRelated: The identity a person may seek to affirm through transition.

• Gender-neutral pronounRelated: A neutral pronoun’s use may reflect a person’s identity, but the grammatical category alone does not define it.

• Sex researchRelated: Inclusive research must distinguish gender identity from other dimensions of sexuality.

• Transgender studiesRelated: A central concept for scholarship on how people understand and describe their genders.

• BisexualityRelated: Definitions of bisexuality concern attraction across genders, not the gender identity of the bisexual person.

• John MoneyRelated: Money helped popularize the concept as distinct from anatomy and gender-role behavior.

• ManRelated: A person's identity as a man is not determined solely by appearance or assigned sex.

• Sexual and reproductive healthRelated: It shapes some people’s care needs but is distinct from reproductive anatomy and health.