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X-gender; X-jendā [48] Xenogender [21] [49] can be defined as a gender identity that references "ideas and identities outside of gender". [26]: 102 This may include descriptions of gender identity in terms of "their first name or as a real or imaginary animal" or "texture, size, shape, light, sound, or other sensory characteristics". [26]: 102
Gender identity. Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. [ 1] Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex or can differ from it. In most individuals, the various biological determinants of sex are congruent, and consistent with the individual's gender identity. [ 2] Gender expression typically reflects a person ...
v. t. e. Gender dysphoria ( GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identity —their personal sense of their own gender —and their sex assigned at birth. [ 5][ 6] The term replaced the previous diagnostic label of gender identity disorder ( GID) in 2013 with the release of the diagnostic manual DSM-5.
The Kinsey scale, also called the Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale, [ 1] is used in research to describe a person's sexual orientation based on one's experience or response at a given time. The scale typically ranges from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to a 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. In both the male and female volumes of ...
The speed of physical growth is rapid in the months after birth, then slows, so birth weight is doubled in the first four months, tripled by 1 year, but not quadrupled until 2 years. [85] Growth then proceeds at a slow rate until a period of rapid growth occurs shortly before puberty (between about 9 and 15 years of age). [ 86 ]
v. t. e. The Standards of Care for the Health of Transgender and Gender Diverse People ( SOC) is an international clinical protocol by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) outlining the recommended assessment and treatment for transgender and gender-diverse individuals across the lifespan including social, hormonal ...
Sexual diversity includes intersex people, those born with a variety of intermediate features between women and men. [ 11] It also includes transgender and transsexed people, genderfluid people, and so on. [ 12][ 9] Lastly, sexual diversity also includes asexual people, who feel disinterest in sexual activity; [ 13][ 9] and all those who ...
But a new study of nearly 5,000 9- and 10-year-olds found that sex and gender map onto largely distinct parts of the brain. The research gives a first insight into how sex and gender may have ...