Oddbean

off the cuff male 🧠male body female 🧠 female body male 🧠female body female 🧠male body male 🧠 intersex body female 🧠 intersex body male+female 🧠male body male+female 🧠female body ✨✨male+female 🧠intersex body✨✨ Your gender identity is your personal sense of self. It’s how you, as an individual, conceptualize your own gender. Gender expression is how you express your gender identity. Many do this through clothing, behavior, gesticulations — anything people might associate (naturally at the biological level) with gender. Your gender expression might match what society expects of your gender, or it might subvert it (oooh subversion. so rad). Gender presentation is often used interchangeably with “gender expression” in the sense that it’s how you present your gender (whether you intend to or not) externally. Somebody might “present” as one gender when they actually identify with another. For example, a transgender woman might present as masculine, or a nonbinary person might present as feminine. The outside world might assume that they’re one gender, even when they’re not. That’s why it’s important not to make assumptions about someone’s gender based on how they look.