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What gender incongruence means

What gender incongruence means

Concept map of gender incongruence showing biological explanations, social and cultural explanations, and an interactionist view

Gender incongruence is when a person's experienced gender differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. Gender dysphoria is the distress or discomfort that can sometimes result from that mismatch, so the two terms are related but not identical.

Gender incongruence Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Gender incongruence

Step-by-step lessons on AQA A Level Psychology Gender incongruence. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Start with the compulsory core topics before tackling the more evaluation-heavy optional and issues-and-debates content.

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