Session 2

Gender Identity
Shayan Siddiqui
 Gender Identity
• “Gender identity” refers to an individual’s self-
awareness or fundamental sense of themselves as
being masculine or feminine, and male or female.

• Personal sense of one’s own gender.

Gender Role
 Gender Roles
• Cultural expectations for a behavior of a person who is
perceived as either male or female including their
actions and personality traits associated with a
particular gender within that culture.
• Gender role varies from one culture to another.
Gender Expression
 Gender Expression
• It refers to the ways in which a person chooses to present
their gender to the world around them.

• This can include clothing, mannerisms, names.

 Few Gender Expressions

• Agender means that a person identifies as not having a gender.

• Cisgender is commonly used to refer to people who identify

exclusively with the gender that they were assigned at birth.
• Demi gender: demi mean half. It is a term used to
partially identify, or feel a connection, to a particular gender.
For example, demi girl or demi boy.

• These identities vary by person but hold in common the fact

that there is not a full identification with one gender, only an
internal leaning towards it.
• Gender questioning describes someone who is
questioning all or parts of their gender (identity or
expression) and does not wish to identify themselves
to a specific gender identity.
• Gender fluid, like gender questioning, is a term that can
be used to describe a person’s gender identity, expression, or
both. Gender fluid describes a person who moves fluidly
between genders, or whose gender shifts over time.
• Genderqueer describes a gender identity that
cannot be defined as exclusively masculine or
feminine. Genderqueer people experience their
gender in all unique ways .
• The identity can include elements of feminine,
masculine, or non-binary identities, or none of these.
In part, it can be seen as a rejection of association
with a label.
• Inter gender describes a gender identity that is a mix of both
masculine and feminine identities.

• Non-Binary is widely used to describe a gender identity that

can not be categorized as masculine or feminine. Non-Binary
people experience their gender in all different ways. It could be
experienced as a combination of male and female, neither male
nor female
• Pangender is a gender identity where a person
identifies as all, or many, gender identities.

• Transgender is used to describe any person who

has a gender identity that is different from the gender
that they were assigned at birth.
 Cultural Gender
• It is important to consider gender identities and expressions in a
way that matches your own cultural understanding of gender,
but it is equally as important to keep in mind the differences in
gender across borders.
• Masculinity and femininity have different presentations,
assumptions, and associated words across the world. While
gender varies person by person, it also varies on another level
culture by culture.
 Cultural Third Gender
• Cultural Third Gender can be found in cultures around
the world. They may or may not be seen as a form of
gender identity and/or expression.

• Often, these third genders serve an important role in

their respective culture.
Factors affecting Gender Identity

• Biological Factors: suggest that gender identities that

people acquire are due to biological factors like hormones.
• Social Factors: suggest that social factors influence the
gender identity of a person and the gender identity is built
only because of socialization.
• Few of the factors includes family, neighborhood, peer
group, school, community and society.
 Equality in Family
• The modern society sees both men and women as
equal partners of society with equal rights, status and
responsibilities.
• but the concept of equality again creates a confusion
like who will direct who ?
• Both husband wife are earning equally?
• Male is considered as more dominant and women is
portrayed as weak and she requires a hero to save her
in reel life and a supporter to support her in real life.