Subject Guides: Equity, Diversity, &amp; Inclusivity: Library Resources: Gender Identity & Expression

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Pronouns

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Gender Identity: One’s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One's gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.

Gender Expression: External appearance of one's gender identity, usually expressed through behaviour, clothing, haircut or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviours and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine.

Sex Assigned at Birth: The assignment and classification of people as male, female, intersex, or another sex based on a combination of anatomy, hormones, chromosomes.

Books

Cover image of the book Gender: Your Guide, showing interlocking rainbow symbols of genderqueer, female, and male

Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, & What to Do in the New Gender Culture

Cover image of the book Navigating Trans*+ and Complex Gender Identities, showing a blue face with neon eyelashes and paint splatters against a black background

Navigating Trans*+ & Complex Gender Identities

Cover image of the book How to Understand Your Gender, showing green and purple cartoon pictures of six people reading books

How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are

Cover image of the book What's your pronoun? showing a tan background with colourful lines like a map with different pronouns

What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He & She

Cover image of the book The Oxford Handbook of Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health, image of what looks like purple ocean waves above title

The Oxford Handbook of Sexual & Gender Minority Mental Health

The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze

Queer: A Graphic History

Cover image of the book The Plasticity of Sex, showing a wooden trans symbol and male and female figures stacked together against a light blue background

The Plasticity of Sex: The Molecular Biology & Clinical Features of Genomic Sex, Gender Identity & Sexual Behavior

Cover image of the book A clinician's guide to gender identity and body image, showing text on a background of purple and blue clouds

A Clinician's Guide to Gender Identity & Body Image: Practical Support for Working with Transgender & Gender-Expansive Clients

Cover image of the book Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and Sexual Assault, showing green text in white blocks on a green background

Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, & Sexual Assault: Challenging the Myths

A Reflective Guide to Gender Identity Counselling

A Dictionary of Gender Studies

Cover image of the book Gender Norms and Intersectionality, showing three people holding onto each other's feet to form a connecting bridge against a background of red geometric shapes and lines

Gender Norms & Intersectionality: Connecting Race, Class & Gender

Exploring Gender Diversity in the Ancient World

Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders

Cover image of the book Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism : Voices from Across the Spectrum showing colourful paint splatters on a cream background

Gender Identity, Sexuality & Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum

Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality & Gender

Cover image of the book Gender identity and research relationships, showing white text on teal background

Gender Identity & Research Relationships

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