Gender Expression

By Chloë Hill

Gender expression is the way someone styles and presents their gender. While it is separate from gender identity, expression plays an essential role in helping trans and queer people to feel like their truest selves.

Anybody can have any kind of gender expression. Trans men don't have to be masculine, trans women don't have to be feminine, and enbies don't have to be neutral. Cis people can be gender nonconforming without being trans. Nobody's gender expression ever invalidates their gender identity.

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