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

During a wide-ranging conversation with host Tomi Lahren on April 7, Jenner, who is transgender, said she had been negatively affected by one of the president’s executive orders targeting trans Americans’ access to identity documents that accurately reflect their gender identity. —Brooke Migdon, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026

Shot on 16mm, the film blends fiction and documentary and tackles themes ranging from labor rights to gender identity. —Lise Pedersen, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026

Parents of four transgender girls, identified by pseudonyms, sued a few weeks after Children’s decision, arguing that the Aurora hospital’s decision to halt care to a population based on their gender identity constitutes discrimination under Colorado law. —Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 15 Apr. 2026

Liberal candidates largely swept school board elections on April 7, 2026, in politically contentious districts in Wisconsin, Missouri, Alaska and Oklahoma, where book bans, gender identity and prayer during school events were on the table. —Carrie Sampson, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026

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