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Gender and sex are different - sex is assigned at birth based on visible sex characteristics
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=== Identity-related terms ===
 
* '''[[Assigned gender at birth]]''' ('''AGAB''') is a term that refers to the sex or gender assigned to people when they are born. As peoplethis areis assigneddone aon genderthe atbasis birthof inphysical regardsand tovisible their physicalsex characteristics, an assigned genderit does not account for one's internal gender identity.
* '''[[Gender expression]]''' refers to the external presentation of one's gender identity. Typically, a person's gender expression is thought of in terms of [[masculinity]] (a [[tomboy]], a [[Butch and femme|butch lesbian]], a [[drag king]]) or [[femininity]] (an [[Effeminacy|effeminate male]], a '[[femboy]]', a [[drag queen]]), but an individual's gender expression may incorporate [[Androgyny|both feminine and masculine traits]], or neither. One may express their gender through clothing, behavior, hair styling, voice, etc.<ref>{{Citation |last=Edelman |first=Elijah Adiv |title=Gender Identity and Transgender Rights in Global Perspective |date=6 November 2019 |work=The Oxford Handbook of Global LGBT and Sexual Diversity Politics |pages=61–74 |editor-last1=Bosia |editor-first1=Michael J. |editor-last2=McEvoy |editor-first2=Sandra M. |editor-last3=Rahman |editor-first3=Momin |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190673741.013.24 |access-date=17 March 2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190673741.013.24 |isbn=978-0-19-067374-1}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Carabez |first1=Rebecca |last2=Pellegrini |first2=Marion |last3=Mankovitz |first3=Andrea |last4=Eliason |first4=Mickey |last5=Scott |first5=Megan |date=12 August 2015 |title=Does your organization use gender inclusive forms? Nurses' confusion about trans* terminology |journal=Journal of Clinical Nursing |volume=24 |issue=21–22 |pages=3306–3317 |doi=10.1111/jocn.12942 |issn=0962-1067 |pmid=26263919 |doi-access=free}}</ref> It is not necessarily related to one's gender identity.
* '''[[Gender identity]]''' refers to the personal sense of one's own [[gender]]. It may correlate with the gender assigned at birth, or differ from it. In most individuals, gender identity is congruent with their assigned gender. Those who do not identify with their birth gender may identify as ''transgender''.