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Sex and Gender Identity

Gender refers to the range of characteristics that are socially constructed for women, men, girls and boys.

Sex refers to the different biological and physiological characteristics of females, males and intersex persons, which is based upon biological features such as hormones, chromosomes and reproductive organs.

Gender identity relates to an individual’s personal, internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond to the person’s sex at birth and their physiology. Gender and sex are related but are different from gender identity.

Transgender is an umbrella term to describe individuals whose gender is not the same as, or does not sit comfortably with, their biological sex assigned at birth.