core gender identity:

Or: CGI / gender-identity , in psychoanalytic theory:

1. The innermost experience of oneself as a male (maleness) or female (femaleness).

2. An infant's developing sense of self as a boy or girl that occurs in the first years of childhood dependent principally on sex assignment and rearing.

3. The combination of physical characteristics, sex chromosomes, fetal gonads and sex-hormones that identify an individual as male or female. Also spelled: core-gender identity.

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