Gender

Gender is a word that is used to talk about how people express masculine (traits most people think of as male) or feminine (traits most people think of...

Gender Identity is how a person identifies themselves. A person’s gender identity is based on what label and type they feel most comfortable aligning with...

Gender role is the idea that people should behave in certain ways because of their gender. As an example, in a hunter-gatherer economy, men usually do...

Gender dysphoria is a term used by psychologists and physicians. It describes people who strongly feel they are not the gender they were born with. It...

Gender euphoria (GE) is a proposed term for the opposite of gender dysphoria. It is the satisfaction, enjoyment, or relief felt by trans people when they...

experience gender dysphoria. The idea that there are only two genders (man and woman) is called the gender binary. A non-binary gender is any gender that is...

Gender bias is a set of words used in social science that causes a bias, or slant, in scientific studies towards one gender. Studies with gender bias do...

Gender binarism or genderism is the social system or belief that gender is binary and that there are only two gender identities, feminine or masculine...

because of their gender. It can also be called sex equality, gender egalitarianism, sexual equality or equality of the genders. Gender equality is supported...

Grammatical gender is a way of organizing words in a language. It is a way of deciding the inflection, or change in form, that a word has. Some languages...

Natural gender is a linguistic category for the sex of real life beings, both the biological sex of animals or the social identity of a person. The sex...

grammatical gender, present in all languages ​​that have this grammatical category. It usually applies to animate objects of the female gender, but is also...

Gender performativity is a term first used by the feminist philosopher Judith Butler in their 1990 book Gender Trouble. They argue that being born male...

Legal gender is a word that is used to regard someone as male or female under the law. They consider sex and gender to determine legal gender of someone...

grammatical gender, present in all languages ​​that have this grammatical category. It usually applies to animate objects of the male gender, but is also...

Common gender is the grammatical gender of those nouns in English that are not limited to either sex or gender, such as cousin, people, and spouse. In...

Gender binary is a term referring to a person who identifies as male or female. Not to be confused with gender binarism, which refers to discrimination...

The terms third gender and third sex mean people who are seen as neither man nor woman. It can also mean the social category in societies who recognize...

X-gender (Japanese: Xジェンダー, romanized: x-jendā) is a third-gender that is not M (male or masculine) or F (female or feminine). The term is used instead...

The Gender Trust is a United Kingdom charitable organization promoting public education about transgender and gender identity issues and providing information...