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🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

성 정체성

Pronunciation / Transliteration: seong jeongcheong

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Gender identity/ˈdʒɛn.dər aɪˈdɛn.tə.ti/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"그의 성 정체성은 남성입니다."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person's deeply held sense of their gender, which may be different from the sex they were assigned at birth.

    "Her gender identity is female, although she was assigned male at birth."
  2. 2

    The social and cultural roles associated with being male or female, as perceived by the individual.

    "His gender identity influences how he interacts with society."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'gender' (derived from the Latin genus, meaning 'kind' or 'type', popularized in psychoanalysis and sociology in the mid-20th century) with 'identity' (from Late Latin identitas, from idem meaning 'same'). Together, the phrase emerged in psychological and sociological discourse during the mid-to-late 20th century, particularly through the work of psychologist John Money, before expanding into broader cultural and legal recognition in the 21st century.

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