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American Culture: A Discussion Of Gender Identity

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Gender Identity is a highly controversial in society today, people like myself often misinterpret a person’s sexual orientation and biological sex for a person’s gender identity rather than a concept of it. White, and Ciccarelli define gender identity as “The individual’s sense of being male or female” (302). A person’s sexual orientation is the enduring romantic, or sexual attraction to another individual (hrc.org). This term only describes what gender an individual is attracted to. The biological sex of an individual is the physical, genetic, and hormonal anatomy a person is born with (plannedparenthood.org). Neither of these term define how individuals identify with themselves. However, throughout research I’ve discovered American Culture

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