Which term describes a person whose gender identity is different from the sex assigned at birth?

Which term describes a person whose gender identity is different from the sex assigned at birth?

• A. transgender
• B. cisgender
• C. intersex
• D. nonbinary

Answer: (A)

Gender identity is how someone experiences themselves in terms of gender, while the sex assigned at birth is usually based on anatomy. When those two do not align, the person is described as transgender. This term covers people whose internal sense of being male, female, both, neither, or somewhere along the gender spectrum doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. The other terms describe related but different ideas: cisgender means their gender matches the birth assignment; intersex refers to variations in sex characteristics; nonbinary describes a non-binary identity, which may or may not be transgender depending on the individual. The essential point is the mismatch between gender identity and birth assignment, which is captured by transgender.

Gender identity is how someone experiences themselves in terms of gender, while the sex assigned at birth is usually based on anatomy. When those two do not align, the person is described as transgender. This term covers people whose internal sense of being male, female, both, neither, or somewhere along the gender spectrum doesn’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. The other terms describe related but different ideas: cisgender means their gender matches the birth assignment; intersex refers to variations in sex characteristics; nonbinary describes a non-binary identity, which may or may not be transgender depending on the individual. The essential point is the mismatch between gender identity and birth assignment, which is captured by transgender.