DIMENSION OF GENDER

DIMENSION OF A GENDER

A category of characteristics involving societal

expectations for people’s behavior, thoughts, and
roles that go along with a person’s assigned sex. ​

Ideas and standards about how people are expected

to behave, dress, and communicate based on
conditioned beliefs.
 • Gender Identity: How we feel
internally
• Gender Expression: How we
demonstrate our gender
• Biological Sex: Sex assigned
G E N D E R I S A S P E C T R U M . E V E RY P E R S O N H A S :
at birth
• Sexual Orientation: Who we
are physically, spiritually,
emotionally, and sexually
attracted to
 • Cisgender: A term for people
whose gender identity aligns
with their assigned sex at birth​
• Transgender: An umbrella
G E N D E R I D E N T I T Y: H O W W E F E E L term for people whose gender
identity is different from those
I N T E R N A L LY

associated with their assigned

A person’s internal, sex at birth​
deeply held sense of
• Nonbinary: Someone whose
one’s own gender.
gender identity isn’t
exclusively male or female,
may include both, or neither​
 More identities!​
• Genderfluid: A gender identity that varies
overtime. Sometimes it is consistent and other
times it is not. A person who is genderfluid may
present the same gender for months, while other
time it changes daily. Gender fluidity is when a
person’s gender changes, in big or small amounts,
G E N D E R I D E N T I T Y: H O W W E F E E L in response to different circumstances, people, or
I N T E R N A L LY
environments.​
• Agender: A term meaning “without gender.” It can
be seen either as a non-binary gender identity or as
A person’s internal, a statement of not having a gender identity. People
deeply held sense of who are agender can present in any way –
masculine, feminine, both or something
one’s own gender. completely beyond the binary. They can (but don’t
have to) experience gender dysphoria if they are
unable to express their identity in a way they are
comfortable with.
• Genderqueer
 • Gender expression is how to
GENDER EXPRESSION: HOW
W E D E MO N S T RAT E O U R
GENDER
express yourself externally.
These are influenced by a
person’s culture, societal
norms, fashion, clothes, and
gestures. Your gender
expression is unique and
different and it does not have
to align with societal norms.
 • A person's biological
sex usually refers to
their status as female,
BIOLOGICAL SEX male, or intersex
depending on their
Sex assigned at birth
chromosomes,
reproductive organs,
and other
characteristics.
 Sexual orientation is an
enduring pattern of
romantic or sexual
SEXUAL ORIENTATION attraction (or a combination
of these) to persons of the
Who we are opposite sex or gender, the
physically, spiritually, same sex or gender, or to
emotionally, and sexually both sexes or more than one
attracted to gender.
 WHAT IS GENDER AND SEX?

GENDER SEX

• Gender is defined as the socially • Sex is biological term that

learned behaviors and the
expectations that are associated
with men and women.
• Not born with
• Can be changed
represents the genetic and
physical identity of the person. It
is meant to signify that one is
either male or female.
• Born with
• Cannot be changed
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