Title: Gender Spectrum | Understanding GenderGender Spectrum
Headings: Understandings of gender continually evolve. In the course of a person’s life, the interests, activities, clothing and professions that are considered the domain of one gender or another evolve in ways both small and large.
Introduction
Dimensions of Gender
Body
Identity
Social Gender
Congruence
Personal Gender
Gender Is Different Than Sexual Orientation
What’s Next?

Content: The meaning associated with a particular identity can vary among individuals using the same term. A person’s gender identity can correspond to or differ from the sex they were assigned at birth. Social gender: how we present our gender in the world and how individuals, society, culture, and community perceive, interact with, and try to shape our gender. Social gender includes gender roles and expectations and how society uses those to try to enforce conformity to current gender norms. Each of these dimensions can vary greatly across a range of possibilities and is distinct from, but interrelated with, the others. A person’s comfort in their gender is related to the degree to which these three dimensions feel in harmony. Let’s explore each of these dimensions in a little more detail. Body
Most societies view sex as a binary concept, with two rigidly fixed options: male or female, based on a person’s reproductive anatomy and functions.