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Gender Identity articles

Below are the best articles we could find on Gender Identity.

Gender is a facet of personal identity that corresponds with a set of expectations a society usually places on the biological sexes. The predominant gender identities expected in the Western world are male and female, and they are usually assumed to align with biological sex. Those whose gender identities align with their biological sex are cisgender, and those whose do not can identify as transgender (identifying as having a different gender than their biological sex), agender (having no gender identity at all), nonbinary (identifying as neither exclusively male nor exclusively female, or as a gender that is neither male nor female), or gender-fluid (not having a fixed gender identity). Discovering and becoming comfortable with your gender identity can be a difficult and painful experience, even for cisgender people who differ too far from the allowed or expected behaviors for their gender within their immediate community.

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Welcome to Body Week

We’re exploring what it means to be queer and have a body, with essays about the ways our bodies are legislated and discriminated against, the strategies we’ve used to find belonging in them, and how we’re breaking down the stereotypes, preconceptions, and fetishization that many of us endure.

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How to Find an L.G.B.T.-Friendly Pediatrician

Your child’s doctor can offer support when it comes to gender identity and sexual orientation and how they relate to body image, body changes, mental and emotional health, and behavioral patterns.

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Why Sex Is Mostly Binary but Gender Is a Spectrum

That genes have anything to do with the determination of sex, gender, and gender identity is a relatively new idea in our history.

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The Search for a ‘Cause’ of Transness Is Misguided

It can be well-intentioned, but it’s a dangerous path that leaves little room for a real understanding of gender and gender identity

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To Be a Man—an Interview with Robert Augustus Masters

In this conversation, we talk about deep process, about discovering shadow, anger, and aggression, about helping men connect to their bodies to unlock their bigger potential.

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Beyond Breadwinners: How Same-Sex Couples Divide Housework

Shifting family structures, including the rising number of same-sex marriages in recent years, mean our understanding of housework needs updating. In our recent study, we highlight that current theories of housework do not adequately address dynamics in same-sex couples.

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Alok Vaid-Menon: ‘It’s Time for a New Beauty Paradigm’

One of life’s paradoxes is that we are encouraged to “be ourselves,” but are often punished when we do.

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LGBTQ+ Celebrities Making It Easier to Be Black, Out, and Proud

These black women and gender-nonconforming individuals have created a space for other young girls and nonbinary persons to feel seen and heard.

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Saeed Jones on Queer Masculinity and the Point of Being an Artist

We talked to the writer about his debut memoir How We Fight for Our Lives and his move from poetry to prose.

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This Is America: How Society’s Views on Gender Impact Relationships

For this edition of This Is America, two nonbinary people opened up about their journeys in relationships and finding their identities, a narrative that is largely unfamiliar and under-researched in a country that continues to diversify with time.

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