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Gender Identity

"Gender Identity" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A person's concept of self as being male and masculine or female and feminine, or ambivalent, based in part on physical characteristics, parental responses, and psychological and social pressures. It is the internal experience of gender role.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Gender Identity" by people in this website by year, and whether "Gender Identity" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 16 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015 and 2022
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