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Measuring Sex, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation

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"Sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation are key indicators of the demographic diversity in the United States. Sex and gender are often conflated under the assumptions that they are mutually determined and do not differ from each other; however, the growing visibility of transgender and intersex populations, as well as efforts to improve the measurement of sex and gender across many scientific fields, has demonstrated the need to reconsider how sex, gender, and the relationship between them are conceptualized. This is turn affects sexual orientation, because it is defined on the basis of the relationship between a person's own sex or gender and that of their actual or preferred partners. Sex, gender, and sexual orientation are core aspects of identity that shape opportunities, experiences with discrimination, and outcomes through the life course; therefore, it is crucial that measures of these concepts accurately capture their comp

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ISBN: 9780309275101
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Author: Engineering, and Medicine US National Academies of Sciences
Publisher: National Academies Press an imprint of The National Academies Press
Format: Paperback
Series: Consensus Study Report
Genres: Society and Social Sciences