Gender essentialism is the belief that a person, thing, or particular trait is inherently and permanently male and masculine or female and feminine. In other words, it considers biological sex the ...

But while the idea that gender isn’t binary (i.e. there’s more than just men and women out there) may seem new to many people, gender non-conformity isn’t a 21st-century creation. Examples of people ...

We talk a lot about labels in the LGBTQ+ community. Ideally, we'd live in a world where everyone could exist as whatever gender they are without constantly having to explain or defend themselves. In a ...

Psychologist David Schwartz, Ph.D., says gender identity is a feeling/belief of belonging or not belonging to one gender category or another. It is society’s construct and does not lodge anywhere in ...