Gender identity refers to a subjective, but continuous and persistent, sense of ourselves as masculine or feminine.

 


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Gender identity refers to the individual's self-perception as a male or female.


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Gender identity is defined as one's perception of oneself as male or female


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Gender identity is defined as the individual's self-perception as a male or female; one's personal, private sense of maleness or femaleness as expressed in appearance, behavior, and attitudes; set of beliefs, attitudes, and values about oneself as a man or woman in many areas of social life, including intimate relations, family, work, community, and religion. The ability to correctly classify oneself as male or female; knowledge that one is female or male. Also, the name of the first stage in Kohlberg's Cognitive developmental theory of the assumption of gender roles.


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