Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 635978 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 15/02/2022 |
Definition: | The way in which a person identifies their masculine or feminine characteristics. A person's gender relates to their deeply held internal and individual sense of gender and is not always exclusively male or female. It may or may not correspond to their sex assigned at birth. |