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Someone who does not describe their gender as fitting either man or woman.

Someone whose gender identity is flexible and not fixed.

Someone assigned male at birth with woman gender identity.

Someone assigned female at birth with man gender identity.

Cisgender means a person who has lived their whole life with society’s expected gender identity consistent with their sex assigned at birth and society’s expectations and roles about that gender.

Gender is not the same as sex. Gender is an entirely personal experience of one’s internal or core self that is not always consistent with your anatomy.

Sex is identified and assigned to you when you are born. It is based on observations of your anatomy. Typically but not always this is male or female.

How individuals present themselves through appearance and behavior in accordance with or in opposition to social and cultural influences and expectations.