Gender modality is the relationship between one's gender and the sex that they were assigned at birth.[1] For example, someone who is assigned female at birth (AFAB) and identifies as a woman has acisgender gender modality. The term was first coined byFlorence Ashley[2] in 2022 to describe the "broad category which includes beingtrans[gender] and being cis[gender]."[3] The term was intended to be analogous tosexual orientation and to allow "space to reflect on" the relationship between gender identity and gender assigned at birth for non-binary people, people of diverse cultural backgrounds, and people withdisassociative identity disorder.[3]
The term has been applied in trans health[4] and education literature,[1] and by governments[5] and courts.[6]
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