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What Does Cisgender Male Mean? Understanding Gender Identity Terms

Learn what a cisgender male is and how this term differentiates gender identity from sex assigned at birth.

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Cisgender male refers to a person who is assigned male at birth and identifies as male in terms of their gender identity. This term is used to distinguish individuals whose gender identity matches their sex at birth from those who are transgender or non-binary.

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  1. What does cisgender mean?

    Cisgender refers to a person whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.

  2. How is cisgender male different from transgender male?

    A cisgender male is someone assigned male at birth who also identifies as male, while a transgender male is someone assigned a different sex at birth but identifies as male.

  3. What are non-binary gender identities?

    Non-binary refers to gender identities that do not exclusively fit within traditional male or female categories.

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