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===Definitions=== The terms ''gender identity'' and ''core gender identity'' were first used with their current meaning—one's personal experience of one's own gender<ref name="MorrowMessinger"/><ref name="Boles_2013" />—sometime in the 1960s.<ref name="GID">"The term 'gender identity' was used in a press release, November 21, 1966, to announce the new clinic for transsexuals at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. It was disseminated in the media worldwide, and soon entered the vernacular. ... gender identity is your own sense or conviction of maleness or femaleness." {{cite journal | vauthors = Money J | title = The concept of gender identity disorder in childhood and adolescence after 39 years | journal = Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy | volume = 20 | issue = 3 | pages = 163–177 | year = 1994 | pmid = 7996589 | doi = 10.1080/00926239408403428 | author-link = John Money }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Unge RK |title=Handbook of the psychology of women and gender |date=2001 |publisher=Wiley |location=New York |isbn=978-0-471-65357-8 | page = 102 | quote = ''Gender identity'' was introduced into the professional lexicon by Hooker and Stoller almost simultaneously in the early 1960s (see Money, 1985). For example, Stoller (1964) used the slightly different term ''core gender identity''... }}</ref> To this day they are usually used in that sense,<ref name="Carlson"/> though a few scholars additionally use the term to refer to the [[sexual orientation]] and [[sexual identity]] categories ''[[gay]]'', ''[[lesbian]]'' and ''[[Bisexuality|bisexual]]''.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Brym RJ, Lie J, Roberts LW, Rytina S |title=Sociology: Your Compass for a New World |date=2012 |publisher=Nelson Education |location=Toronto |isbn=978-0-17-650386-4 |edition=4th Canadian}}</ref> Gender expression is distinct from gender identity in that gender expression is how one chooses to outwardly express their gender through one's "name, pronouns, clothing, hair style, behavior, voice or body features."<ref>{{cite web | url=https://myhealth.alberta.ca/Alberta/Pages/gender-ID-expression-LGBTQ.aspx | title=Gender, gender identity, and gender expression | access-date=4 December 2022 | archive-date=13 April 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413152257/https://myhealth.alberta.ca/Alberta/Pages/gender-ID-expression-LGBTQ.aspx | url-status=live }}</ref> It is thus distinct from gender identity in that it is the external expression of gender but may not necessarily portray a person's gender identity and may vary "according to racial/ethnic background, socio-economic status and place of residence."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=White Hughto |first1=Jaclyn M. |last2=Reisner |first2=Sari L. |last3=Pachankis |first3=John E. |title=Transgender Stigma and Health: A Critical Review of Stigma Determinants, Mechanisms, and Interventions |journal=Social Science & Medicine |date=December 2015 |volume=147 |pages=222–231 |doi=10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.11.010 |pmid=26599625 |pmc=4689648 }}</ref>
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