This National Academies committee on Sex and Gender Identification and Implications for Disability Evaluation will review the current state of medical knowledge and practice regarding sex ...

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 ...

"Gender incongruence" is the term used to describe a marked and persistent incongruence between an individual’s experienced gender and their assigned gender or biological sex. "Gender dysphoria," ...

Individuals are receiving diagnoses of gender dysphoria (GD) — also known as gender identity disorder — at younger ages, according to a new study published in General Psychiatry, an open access ...

Research published in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology indicates that the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown had largely positive impacts on gender identity development in trans and gender ...

In a recent article published in JAMA Network Open, researchers performed a cross-sectional study among 1,231 transgender, nonbinary (TGNB), and cisgender youths in the United States (U.S.) to ...