gender identity

English

Etymology

Coined by American professor of psychiatry and researcher Robert J. Stoller in 1964.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ aɪˈdɛɾ̃.ə.ɾi/, /-ɪ.ɾi/, [ˈd͡ʒɛn.dɚ aɪˈdɛn.ə.ɾi], [-ɪ.ɾi]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈd͡ʒɛn.də aɪˈdɛn.tɪ.ti/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

gender identity (countable and uncountable, plural gender identities)

1. (psychology) An individual's internal sense of self as belonging to a particular gender or genders, or to no gender.
   • 2020 May 4, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Monday, May 4, 2020:

     "Um... is there a better way to put it than 'female forms'? I mean, Justin's gender identity isn't getting morphed, is it?"

   • 2024 November 29, Jacqueline C. S. To, Marshall M. C. Hui, Karson T. F. Kung, “Self-Reported Multidimensional Gender Identity in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children”, in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, →DOI:

     Gender identity development may be conceptualized as a continuous, lifelong process of gender self-categorization, which involves matching oneself to a gender group that seems to be a “best fit” using information related to a number of interactive factors such as an internal sense of gendered self, gendered attributes, and other people’s perceptions (Jackson & Bussey, 2023, 2024).

   • 2025 April 1, FOX26 News Staff, “Both transgender athlete bills fail in California”, in FOX26 News‎^[1]:

     AB-89 would have required that participation in sex-segregated California school programs, athletic teams, and facility use be based on a pupil’s sex, not gender identity.

Derived terms

• gender identity disorder
• sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts

Translations

person's sense of self as a member of a particular gender

• Albanian: identiteti gjinor f
• Arabic: هُوِيَّة جَنْدَرِيَّة f (huwiyya jandariyya)
• Armenian: գենդերային ինքնություն (genderayin inkʻnutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: gender kimliyi
• Basque: genero-identitate
• Bulgarian: полова идентичност f (polova identičnost)
• Catalan: identitat de gènere f
• Cebuano: pagkailhanan sa kinatawhan
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 性別認同 / 性别认同 (sing³ bit⁶ jing⁶ tung⁴)

  Mandarin: 性別認同 / 性别认同 (xìngbié rèntóng)

• Czech: genderová identita f
• Danish: kønsidentitet c
• Dutch: geslachtsidentiteit (nl) f, genderidentiteit f
• Esperanto: genra identeco
• Estonian: sooidentiteet
• Finnish: sukupuoli-identiteetti (fi)
• French: identité sexuelle (fr) f, identité de genre (fr)
• Galician: identidade de xénero f
• Georgian: გენდერული იდენტობა (genderuli idenṭoba)
• German: Geschlechtsidentität (de) f
• Greek: ταυτότητα φύλου f (taftótita fýlou)
• Hebrew: זהות מגדרית
• Hungarian: nemi identitás
• Icelandic: kynvitund f
• Indonesian: identitas gender
• Italian: identità di genere (it) f
• Japanese: 性同一性 (せいどういつせい, sei dōitsusei), ジェンダー・アイデンティティ (jendā-aidentiti), ジェンダー同一性 (jendā dōitsusei)
• Javanese: identitas gender
• Kazakh: гендерлік сәйкестік (genderlık säikestık)
• Korean: 성정체성(性正體性) (seongjeongcheseong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ناسنامەی جێندەری (nasnamey cênderî)

• Latvian: dzimtes identitāte f
• Lithuanian: lyties tapatybė f
• Marathi: लिंगभाव ओळख (liṅgbhāv oḷakh)
• Nepali: लैङ्गिक पहिचान (ne) (laiṅgik pahicān)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kjønnsidentitet

• Persian: هویت جنسیتی (fa)
• Polish: tożsamość płciowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: identidade de gênero (pt) f
• Romanian: identitate de gen f
• Russian: ге́ндерная иденти́чность (ru) f (géndɛrnaja identíčnostʹ)
• Slovak: rodová identita f
• Slovene: spolna identiteta f
• Spanish: identidad de género (es) f
• Swedish: könsidentitet (sv) c
• Tagalog: katauhang pangkasarian
• Tamil: பாலின அடையாளம் (pāliṉa aṭaiyāḷam)
• Turkish: cinsiyet kimliği
• Ukrainian: гендерна ідентичність f (henderna identyčnistʹ)
• Urdu: صنفی شناخت
• Vietnamese: bản dạng giới
• Western Panjabi: جنسی شناخت (jnsī śnāxt)

Further reading

• gender identity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia