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Can you define gender?

(noun) Gender is a social construct. It is an idea that people who are a certain ‘sex’ (AKA assigned sex at birth) should behave or dress a certain way. Those are called gender roles.


It’s important to remember that sex is not a binary and gender is a spectrum.


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Reviewed by Dr. Mimi Hoang.

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