性別   Gender

• 用性別（gender）來定義一個人的男性特徵或女性特徵。性別由一個人確切的性心理品質要素所決定。而一個人的性心理品質要素是作為一個性別和否認作為另一個性別在被養育過程中所形成的。
• 人們在性的層級上是男性或女性，就在心理上符合他們/她們的性別。大多數個體明確地符合與他們身體性徵相一致性別。
• 但是，少數人部分地認定與自己身體性徵相矛盾的性別（異裝癖），甚至有更少的人完全地認定與自己身體性徵不一致的性別（易性癖）。
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• Gender is defined as a person's masculinity or femininity. It is determined on the basis of certain psychological qualities that are nurtured in one sex and discouraged in the other.
  
• People are masculine or feminine to the degree in which they conform to their genders.
  Most individuals clearly conform to the gender appropriate to their physical sex.
  
• However, a minority partially assume a gender that contradicts their physical sex (transvestism), and for an even smaller minority such an inversion is complete (transsexualism).