gender identity

noun

: a person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female

Facebook provides more than 50 options beyond "male" and "female" for users to describe their gender identity, from "gender questioning" and "neither" to "androgynous."

—The Chicago Tribune

Examples of gender identity in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The concept of your gender identity feeling exactly the same every day? —Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2025

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. —Mekishana Pierre, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Sep. 2025

Earlier this month, Texas A&M University removed a dean and department head and fired a professor after drawing conservative backlash over a viral video in which a student objected to gender identity being mentioned in a children’s literature course. —Abby Monteil, Them., 26 Sep. 2025

There’s a difference between expressing one’s gender identity and participating in girlhood as a broader cultural condition. —Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for gender identity

• entity
• nonentity

Kids Definition

gender identity

noun

: a person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male nor female

Medical Definition

gender identity

noun

: a person's internal sense of being male, female, some combination of male and female, or neither male or female