Gender Identity

How do you describe your Gender Identity?

Gender identity is our built-in sense of our gender as opposed to simply what our physical body suggests. Many things contribute to our emerging gender identity including society, whānau and factors that are set before birth just like with our sexual orientation.
    
There are heaps of different words that people use to describe their gender: boy, girl, man, woman, butch, femme, androgynous, genderqueer, intersex, boi, grrl, bigendered, fa’afafine, third gender, two-spirit, trans, pangender, tangata ira tane, mahu, vakasalewalew, sister girl, akava’ine, fakaleiti, leiti, fakafifine, and the list goes on!

 

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