Gender identity refers to a person’s internal sense of their gender. Gender expression refers to how people may convey their gender to others through behavior and appearance. Gender exists on a broad ...

Most of us have grown up thinking that there are two genders: boy and girl. However, as we discuss inclusion of LGBTQ+ identities, it is critically important to outline key terms that base our ...

Beyond the binaries of gay and straight, male and female lies a broad spectrum of identities. (All are real and valid, despite what certain executive orders or conservative talking points would have ...

We recently added new questions about sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) to MyChart, our electronic medical record system and our patient-check-in process. Our health system believes that ...

After decades of creating laws that assumed “sex” and “gender” were synonymous, lawmakers across the country are taking another look at how states define those terms. Scientific and legal ...

In November 2021, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) released the Framework on Fairness, Inclusion and Non-Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity and Sex Variations.1 The Framework aims ...

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