AI overview
Gender identity is a person's private sense of what their own gender is, based on their inner experience rather than external factors. It matters because it's deeply personal to how people understand themselves and can affect their wellbeing and how they navigate the world.
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Research
39,830 papers- Gender identity development in adolescence.ReviewHormones and behavior · 2013Steensma TD, Kreukels BP, de Vries AL et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.02.020
- Neurobiology of gender identity and sexual orientation.ReviewJournal of neuroendocrinology · 2018Roselli CEDOI: 10.1111/jne.12562
- Gender Identity and Aggression.ReviewAnnual review of psychology · 2025Bosson JKDOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-020124-115456
- Etiology of Gender Identity.Endocrinology and metabolism clinics of North America · 2019Korpaisarn S, Safer JDDOI: 10.1016/j.ecl.2019.01.002