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Gender Identity: Definition

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Definition: Gender Identity is a person's internal sense of being a man or woman or boy or girl. For transgender people, their gender identity will not match the sex they were born with.

Next Term: Gender Identity Disorder

Examples: Although Max was born a female, now that he has come out as transsexual, his gender identity is male.
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