Dr. Laura Anderson

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 108: Dr. Laura Anderson on Gender Noncomformity and Differently Wired Kids · 15 May 2018 podcast

You were either entirely male and felt that way, either entirely female and felt that way.

And that's kind of still a common understanding.

But in reality, over time, we're seeing that it's really a spectrum.

There's greater understanding that that.

similar to but totally different from sexual orientation and we'll talk about that too.

It's no longer fair to think of them as only living in two boxes, that we know that it's a natural expression of gender development and human sexuality to fall on a spectrum, not in two boxes.

So to kind of reiterate that gender identity is your internal felt sense of how male and female

you are.

And sometimes that lines up with our parts.

It lines up with our sex assigned at birth, with what doctors assume we are based on our anatomy.

Uh for a lot of folks that lines up and it may and it and they don't question it because it's in alignment from the beginning.

And for a whole other group of people larger than we might have known twenty, thirty, forty years ago, there's actually not total alignment between their internal felt sense of gender and the sex they were assigned at birth.

And so

Sex assigned at birth refers to your anatomy.

Gender identity refers to how male or female you feel on the inside, and your gender expression is what you show the world.

So how do I live in my gender?

How do I communicate to others?

what my feeling about how male or female is, what I do with my hair or makeup or jewelry or way I cross my legs or the way I move my hands when I talk or all of these things in our culture that are so incredibly gender loaded.

So gender expression is what we show the world about our felt sense of gender.

And then the one last piece of definition that's important is that these often get confused with sexual orientation.

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