Gender Modality: Meaning, Identity, and Assigned Gender
Gender modality describes how a person’s gender identity relates to the gender or sex they were assigned at birth.
Gender modality describes how a person’s gender identity relates to the gender or sex they were assigned at birth.
Cisgender describes a person whose gender identity matches the sex assigned to them at birth and is separate from sexual orientation or gender expression.
Cisnormativity is the assumption that everyone is cisgender or that cisgender identities, bodies, and experiences should be treated as the expected standard.
Learn what gender identity means, how it differs from biological sex, gender expression, pronouns, and sexual orientation, and why self-identification matters.