Gender non-conforming, often shortened to GNC, is a term used to describe individuals who do not conform to societal gender roles. It is not the same as non-binary, which is a gender identity. GNC includes both cisgender and transgender people.
Gender roles[]
A gender role is behavior or characteristic traditionally ascribed to a person based on their biological or perceived sex.[1] The term was coined by sexologist John Money, during studies of intersex children to describe "... all those things that a person says or does to disclose himself or herself as having the status of boy or man, girl or woman, respectively."[2][3] These roles vary, often depending on one's age, location, race and ethnicity, and religious or other beliefs.[4]
Most people do not fully ascribe to one or the other gender role — for example, many men enjoy cooking and baking, and many women play sports and video games — and doing so does not make one transgender or non-heterosexual. Studies have shown that gender non-conforming and gender dysphoric children are more likely to identify as cisgender and homosexual than transgender when they grow up.[5]
Sources[]
- ↑ https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-1695-2_602#howtocite
- ↑ https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10508-018-1300-x
- ↑ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13260820
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=lc-YBRQkldAC&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q&f=false
- ↑ http://www.sexologytoday.org/2016/01/do-trans-kids-stay-trans-when-they-grow_99.html