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Descriptor
English
:
Gender Identity
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Identidad de Género
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Identidade de Gênero
Synonyms
English
:
Gender Role
Sex Role
Gender
Tree Number:
F01.393.446.250
F01.752.747.385.200
F01.752.747.722.200
F02.739.794.793.200
SP4.011.127.413.634
Definition
English
:
A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or
female
and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.
Indexing Annotation
English
:
psychological; do not confuse with
SEX CHARACTERISTICS
(physiological); do not confuse with SEXUAL
ORIENTATION
see SEX
BEHAVIOR
:
gender identity
is knowing that one is male or
female
; sexual
orientation
is preferring heterosexual or homosexual
behavior
; no qualif
See Related
English
:
Transgender Persons
History Note
English
:
1991(1975); for GENDER use SEX 1991-2003
Record Number:
5924
Unique Identifier:
D005783
Occurrence in VHL
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