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What is the difference between sex and gender identity?

Profile: avanef
avanef on Mar 20, 2017
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Gender identity is how someone identifies themselves. Where as sex is female and male, like if there's a form online or on a paper and it says "Sex: M" that just says the sex of the person is male, female, ect.
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Anonymous on Jul 11, 2017
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Sex is the anatomy you were born with, physically. Gender identity is how you feel on the inside regarding your gender and what you do or don't identify with despite your physical sex.
Profile: Icanwaitforever
Icanwaitforever on Aug 7, 2017
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Biological sex is the way we are born: male or female. And that depends on the chromosomes. Instead, gender identity is the way you feel: for example, even if your sex is male, you can feel and behave like a female.
Profile: fruitCat
fruitCat on Oct 2, 2017
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Sex is what you have biologically - genitals, or sometimes people think of it to do with chromosomes. Gender is not the same, and is about how you feel and how you see yourself and, I guess, your place in society. Sometimes it 'matches' your sex, and sometimes it doesn't. Gender is a wide, colourful spectrum of expression and you can fit into different places on it at different times.
Profile: PastelRhian
PastelRhian on Nov 27, 2017
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Sex is what you are born with based on your hormones and genitals, whereas gender identity is how you identify personally on the gender spectrum, and it doesn't have to correlate with your sex.
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JayNB on Nov 28, 2017
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Sex is the biological label you where given when you were born, or before you were born. Gender identity is what gender you think of yourself as, Ex: You where a boy at birth, but now you see yourself as in-between, or neither.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 16, 2018
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Your sex is what organs you have. If you have a penis and testicles your sex is male. If you have a vagina and uterus your sex is female. Gender on the other hand is what you CHOOSE to identify as. Gender can change with thought, but sex can only change with surgery
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Anonymous on Jun 23, 2020
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Biological sex has to do with the sex that someone was assigned at birth, based on genitalia. Their gender identity is how they express themselves and the gender they identify as, which may or may not align with the sex they were assigned at birth. A person's gender identity is also different from their sexual identity. Gender identity has to do with who you are and your sexual identity is who you are attracted to. You can be any gender identity and any sexual identity; they are exclusive from one another. When learning about someone's gender identity, it is important to remember to respect their pronouns.
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