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Gender

Gender

In the study of human subjects, the term Gender should be used to refer to a person’s self-representation as male or female, or how that person is responded to by social institutions. While an individual’s internal sense of Gender can be female or male, some people identify as nonbinary — neither female nor male. Other individuals can identify as a Gender that is the same as (cisgender) or different from (transgender) the one assigned at birth. These terms are separate from an individual’s sexual orientation, which describes a person’s emotional, romantic and/or physical attachments (such as straight, lesbian, gay, asexual, bisexual, and more).