Whether you are parenting a young child who is gender creative or an older youth who has come out as trans or gender diverse, you may have a lot of questions.
Gender refers to socially and culturally constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and trans people.
Our
Gender page provides some key definitions that we use to understand the differences between things like sex and gender; gender identity and gender expression; and trans identity and sexual orientation.
If you are wondering about specific terms, we have a
Glossary with over 100 definitions for terms related to gender and trans health care.
You may have heard about the gender binary, the idea that there are only two genders: male (boy) and female(girl).
Many people fit within this
gender binary, but others identify outside of it. They may have no gender (e.g. agender), more than one gender (e.g. bigender), or a gender other than man or woman (e.g. genderqueer).
Exploring gender diversity (a gender diagram) is one visual framework for discussing gender diversity.
