Gender Me Canada

A resource for Canadian parents and children to explore what gender means to them

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  • Masculine

    Masculinity generally refers to the characteristics that society has assigned to men. Although masculinity is often assigned to men, it is largely a social construct that outlines physical characteristics, mannerisms, and personality.

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  • Feminine

    Femininity refers to socially constructed characteristics or attributes that are commonly seen in girls or women.

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  • Transgender

    A transgender individual is someone who was born a certain sex and assigned the correlated gender to the sex observed, but do not align with their physical sex and assigned gender. For example, a transgender woman is someone who was assigned male at birth but now presents and lives as a woman.

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