There are many ways to experience gender identity. Gender identity is a person\u2019s inner sense of being a girl\/woman, boy\/man, some combination of both, or something else, including having no gender at all.<\/p>\n
Gender identity may or may not correspond to the sex assigned at birth. Cisgender term describes a person whose gender identity aligns in a traditional sense with the sex assigned at birth. Transgender\u00a0is an umbrella term that describes a diverse group of people whose internal sense of\u00a0gender\u00a0is different than that which they were assigned at birth.<\/p>\n
Most people, cisgender or transgender people, are either woman or man. Some people don’t n fit into the two categories of “man” or “woman”; non-binary<\/strong> is one term used to describe individuals who do not identify as man or woman, or who integrate both. Non-binary people are extremely diverse in terms of their identities and may be fluid or fixed in terms of their gender.<\/p>\n Identities that fall under the non-binary umbrella include:<\/p>\n Bigender<\/strong> \u2013 a person whose identity shifts between feminine and masculine depending on context or situation.<\/p>\n Genderfluid<\/strong> \u2013 a person whose gender identification shifts or changes.<\/p>\n Pangender<\/strong> \u2013 a person whose identity is made up of all gender identities.<\/p>\n Agender<\/strong> \u2013 a person who does not have a personal sense of gender identity.<\/p>\n Genderless<\/strong> \u2013 a person who does not identify with any gender.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n References:<\/p>\n American Psychological Association. (2015). Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People. American Psychologist, 70 (9), 832-864.<\/p>\n