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title: gender identity
date: 2024-02-15T11:07:00-05:00
author: Grace Koch
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[Health & Sexuality Info](/health-info)# gender identity

Gender identity is each person’s internal and individual experience of gender. It is a person’s sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum. A person’s [**gender identity**](https://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/policy-preventing-discrimination-because-gender-identity-and-gender-expression/3-gender-identity-and-gender-expression) may be the same as or different from their birth-assigned sex. Gender identity is about who we are, while sexual orientation is about who attracts us. For example, being cisgender or transgender does not predict whether a woman will be straight, bisexual, or lesbian.

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