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Oct 24, 2024 · Traits traditionally cited as feminine include gracefulness, gentleness, empathy, humility, and sensitivity, though traits associated with femininity vary across societies and individuals, and are influenced by a variety of social and cultural factors.
Oct 21, 2024 · Gender identity, an individual’s self-conception as a man or woman or as a boy or girl or as some combination of man/boy and woman/girl or as someone fluctuating between man/boy and woman/girl or as someone outside those categories altogether. Gender identity is distinct from biological sex.
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Oct 6, 2024 · Effeminacy or male femininity [1] [2] is the embodiment of feminine traits in boys or men, particularly those considered untypical of men or masculinity. [3] These traits include roles, stereotypes, behaviors, and appearances that are socially associated with girls and women.
Oct 8, 2024 · Cisgender (often shortened to cis) is the opposite of transgender or cisn’t, meaning someone who identifies as the gender they were assigned at birth. [1] It describes men who were assigned male at birth and women who were assigned female at birth, which still go by these terms.
Oct 24, 2024 · gender role, a culturally and socially determined set of expected behaviors, attitudes, and characteristics based on concepts of masculinity and femininity.
Oct 11, 2024 · 5 min read. Lots of us grow up in societies that recognize two genders: female and male. That idea is called a gender binary. But what if you don’t feel like you’re strictly a man or a woman...
5 days ago · Non-binary people may identify as an intermediate or separate third gender, [6] identify with more than one gender [7][8] or no gender, or have a fluctuating gender identity. [9] Gender identity is separate from sexual or romantic orientation; [10] non-binary people have various sexual orientations. [11]
