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Podcast: Mental Health Training
Episode: Sexual Orientation.
Description: Gender identity
Gender is used to describe the characteristics of men and women that are socially constructed, while sex refers to those that are biologically determined.
Individuals are born male or female but learn to be boys and girls who grow into men and women, and this learned behaviour makes up their gender identity and determines gender roles.Â
(The WHO gender policy, 2002).
Gender identity, and sexual orientation, are two very different things.  Gender identity refers to a person’s sense of self, which may not correspond to the s...