As the saying goes, “sex is between your
legs while gender is between your ears”.
Sex is what a person is assigned at
birth based on what’s between their legs- male or female and occasionally
intersex, where a person is born with either both or neither genitals for the
sexes. Gender is what a person feels that they are. It’s their “brain sex”.
According to the American Psychological Association, “gender refers to the
socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given
society considers appropriate for boys and men or girls and women.” [Source]
Gender has an impact on everything that
people do, how they act, what their interests are, and how they feel about
themselves. While some of these match up with the sex of a person whether they
are transgender or not, sometimes they don’t. If enough of these do not match
up with the birth sex, the person may be transgender. However, like it was
mentioned earlier, they may not necessarily identify as such.
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