Concepts on Gender Identity:
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Agender
It is a category belonging to gender identity. Agender people do not feel identified either as a man or as a woman.
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Bigender
Bigender flag, composed of stripes of different shades of pink (female gender) and blue (male gender), in the center a white (neutrois) stripe. When we talk about bigender, we are referring to one of the components of a person’s Sexual Identity that is …
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Cisgender
It is a term used to classify people whose gender identity and biological sex are concordant, and whose gender expression is also concordant with that socially are assigned to this biological sex. For simplicity, we can say that there are transgender p …
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Demigender
It is a category pertaining to gender identity. A demigender person feels identified as a man or as a woman, but in a partial way. Demigender people can be named as demiboy, demigirl, etc.
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Gender dysphoria
Dysphoria is the opposite of euphoria, so gender dysphoria is disgust, displeasure, imbalance or discomfort that a person can feel with the biological sex that has corresponded. Gender dysphoria is related to transgender and transsexual people, but the …
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Genderfluid
It is a category pertaining to gender identity. Genderfluid people are those who in a few moments feel identified as a man, and at other times as a woman.
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Third gender
It is a category that belongs to the gender identity, also named third sex. A person of the third gender feels identified neither with the masculine gender, nor with the feminine gender, but with another that is a mixture of both.
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Transgender
There are people whose their biological sex does not match with their gender identity, the transgender people, these people may start if they want a sex reassignment by a combined process of psychological, chemical and surgery, being in this case, tran …
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Transition
The period during which transgender people starts to live as the gender with which they identify. The transition may include change name, take hormones, undergo surgery in the chest, genitals or plastic surgery, changing legal documents to reflect her …
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Transsexual
Transsexual and transgender are related but different things.