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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

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

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

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

• 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.

• Adolescent sexualityRelated: Gender identity can shape how adolescents understand themselves and form relationships.

• Harry BenjaminRelated: Benjamin treated persistent gender identity as central to evaluating requests for transition-related care.

• PansexualityRelated: Pansexuality concerns attraction regardless of other people's gender, not a person's own gender identity.

• Brandon TeenaRelated: The case drew attention to how institutions treated Teena’s identity and dignity.

• WomanRelated: For many women, womanhood names a lived gender identity rather than a conclusion drawn from anatomy.

• LGBTQ linguisticsRelated: It informs pronoun use, self-reference, and disputes over gendered language.

• LGBTQ peopleRelated: Transgender identity concerns a relationship between gender identity and sex assigned at birth.

• Trans womanRelated: A trans woman's female gender identity is central to the definition.