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Definition:
The understanding that gender is a component of the self that is not altered by external appearance. p. 190 HGD Chapter 8, pp. 190-191

A child's realization that gender is fixed and does not change over time.

Examples:
an example is that a women dresses in men clothing, were men shoes and acts like a man, she is still a women, with feminine features. the same goes for a man. a man that dresses like a women and acts like a women, doesn't turn the man into a women. his masculine features are still present.

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Analogies:
when girls act like boys its considered being a tomboy. when boys act like girls..... I don't know if they have a nice word for that, someone should make a word for it.

Mnemonics:
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In the News:
Gender Constancy judgments in children with gender identity disorder. Very interesting article on children with gender identity disorder. Gender Identity

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