What does it mean to have a sense of gender?

What is gender? ‘Gender’ refers to your sense of who you are as a guy, girl or something else, as opposed to what your physical characteristics, genes and hormones indicate. Identifying your gender can be more diverse than simply seeing yourself as ‘male’ or ‘female’, and people express their gender in different ways.

What causes gender dysphoria?

The exact causes of gender dysphoria are not completely understood, but several different factors may play a role. Genetics, hormonal influences during prenatal development, and environmental factors may be involved. The onset of gender dysphoria is often during early childhood.

What is Nounself?

Nounself pronouns are a type of neopronouns that are clearly derived from a pre-existing word or words to be used as a gender-neutral pronoun set. Any word can be turned into a pronoun set, so there are theoretically infinite sets of nounself pronouns. Anyone can use nounself pronouns regardless of their gender.

What’s your gender identity?

Gender identity is your deeply-held inner feelings of whether you’re female or male, both, or neither. Your gender identity isn’t seen by others. Gender identity may be the same as the sex you were assigned at birth (cisgender) or not (transgender). Some people identify as a man (or a boy) or a woman (or a girl).

What is it like to be gender fluid?

Gender fluid is a gender identity which refers to a gender which varies over time. A gender fluid person may at any time identify as male, female, neutrois, or any other non-binary identity, or some combination of identities. Their gender can also vary at random or vary in response to different circumstances.

What does demigender mean?

Demigender is a gender identity that involves feeling a partial, but not a full, connection to a particular gender identity or just to the concept of gender.

What is your gender?

Gender is the state of being male, female, or other third genders. As opposed to sex which is simply a description of your genitals, gender is your state of being. Gender can’t be forced to change. Gender doesn’t have to correspond to your sex.