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As discussed in Chap. 2, among feminist theorists there has been considerable controversy over whether gender identity, as opposed to gender roles, is essential. Such an essentialist view of gender identity posits that being born physically male versus physically female immutably defines one’s membership and self-identification in one side or the other of the gender binary. While essentialism is not the same as embodiment, there is the implication that the bodily experiences of being a woman versus being a man create a sense of identity independent of socially constructed definitions of the expected physical and behavioral manifestations of gender.
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Nagoshi, J.L., Nagoshi, C.T., Brzuzy, S. (2014). Transgender and Trans-Identity Theory. In: Gender and Sexual Identity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8966-5_5
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