Your gender can be shown through your identity (eg. People who don’t fit the gender binary, but feel pressure to follow it, can experience an extreme form of distress called gender dysphoria. These gender expectations can affect a person’s social, work and legal rights. Like expecting males to be “tough” and females to be “gentle”.
We usually assume a person’s assigned sex decides their gender, but it’s more complex than that! It can also be a legal status that we’re given at birth or that we change over our lives. It can be the assigned sex a doctor gives us at birth, depending on what our genitals and chromosomes look like.
It can be about biological features our bodies have, like our genitals and chromosomes.
Sex can mean lots of different things.
