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2021: Creating the Lexicon of Future
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The world is being woken up to the complexity that has been under the surface of our society for many years. In order to move to greater wisdom, we need a language to form better questions. Fortunately, language is designed to flex and flow with these emerging questions.
Project Director for Diversity & Inclusion and Gender & Sexual Diversity Initiatives at Iowa State nicci port said gender identity is how one sees oneself as a gendered or agendered person, in which it is defined by the individual. Someone’s gender identity can be fluid, depending on an individual’s experience or culture.
However, port said there is often a misconception that occurs in relation to gender identity and gender expression.
“Gender identity is how a person sees themselves and gender expression is what a person does to communicate their gender to others — clothing, hairstyle, mannerisms, way of speaking — roles we take in interactions with others and so on,” port said. ~ Gender identities around the world
