legal gender
Documented identity classification
Legal gender is the sex or gender designation recorded on a person's official documents—birth certificates, passports, driver's licenses.
In most jurisdictions, legal gender is assigned at birth based on physical characteristics and can be changed through formal procedures that vary widely by location.
Her legal gender didn't match how she presented.
The term distinguishes official classification from gender identity or expression.
- sexReproductive category or act
- non-binaryGender outside two categories
- birth certificateOfficial record of arrival
- sex changeAltering one's biological gender
- name changeModifying one's designation
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- transgendertrans women, trans men, trans woman, trans man, transwoman