How to Use gender identity in a Sentence

gender identity

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  • Newsom's school gender identity law mandates 'teachers must lie to parents,' parental rights groups say.
    — Fox News, 23 July 2024
  • Laws barring transgender youth from playing on sports teams that align with their gender identity are also being challenged across the country.
    — CBS News, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The law comes as several states across the country have introduced bills related to gender identity and sexuality in schools.
    — Alexandra Banner, CNN, 16 July 2024
  • The community evolved into a place where residents were also encouraged to embrace their gender identity.
    — Hannah Reyes Morales, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Having others respect your gender identity is something everyone deserves.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • After years of struggling with her gender identity, the RuPaul's Drag Race alum is a transgender woman.
    — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 22 Dec. 2022
  • Attempts to connect with these former friends — by sending them controversial columns about gender identity, for example — are not received kindly.
    — Jenavieve Hatch, Sacramento Bee, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Cass' review comes as the NHS continues to expand its children and young people's gender identity services across the country.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2024
  • Barham immediately offered Adeem slots opening for his band, where they were tasked with winning over an audience that may or may not have had a super firm grasp on the nuances of gender identity.
    — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2022
  • There was an open-mindedness and empathy to the reception of Koubek and his gender identity and expression in the 1930s.
    — Alex Abad-Santos, Vox, 1 Aug. 2024
  • That would seem to provide a promising foundation to explore the tricky lines of gender identity and the twisty byways of love.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Feb. 2023
  • And Knapp’s 14-year-old son, who is trans, had come home multiple times and said friends could no longer hang out with him because of his gender identity.
    — Casey Parks, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • If signed by the governor, the bill would expand a decade-old law that allows students to use a bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.
    — Anabel Sosa, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
  • His mother, Sue Benedict, has said that Nex, who used he/him and they/them pronouns, was bullied due to his gender identity.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 26 Feb. 2024
  • For others, the topic of gender identity may be new and confusing.
    — Thaddeus Cramer, Parents, 13 Sep. 2023
  • They had been bullied in the past due to their gender identity, according to their family.
    — Coleby Phillips, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Now she is allowed to use a closer bathroom and one that is in accordance with her gender identity.
    — Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2023
  • California law protects the right of trans children to play in sports that match their gender identity.
    — Andrew Sheeler, Sacramento Bee, 31 Mar. 2024
  • In 2021, Reeves passed an anti-trans sports bill that barred transgender girls from playing on teams that align with their gender identity.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Transitioning to one's true gender identity can come with a lot of skin changes, so Davis created treatments to help with the process.
    — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 30 June 2024
  • Relatives of the 10th-grader said he had been bullied over his gender identity.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2024
  • And what are the different labels someone can use to describe their gender identity?
    — Perri O. Blumberg, Women's Health, 21 July 2023
  • Since 2018, transgender OCPS students have been free to use bathrooms and locker rooms that matched their gender identity.
    — Leslie Postal, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Johns Hopkins shed McHugh’s four-decades-old judgments and reestablished its gender identity clinic in 2017.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Kansas is for now among a few states that don't let trans people change their driver's licenses to reflect their gender identities.
    — John Hanna The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But the new rules did not address whether transgender students should be able to play on sports teams corresponding to their gender identity.
    — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 May 2024
  • You like kissing people who share your gender identity.
    — Gabrielle Kassel, Women's Health, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Rich had been taking a much different approach to Ren’s gender identity.
    — Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News, 11 Oct. 2023
  • In the workplace, more than one in ten people who took the survey said they had been fired, forced to resign, or otherwise lost their job because of their gender identity or expression.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • At the time, only a few states had enacted bans against transgender athletes seeking to compete in sports that matched their gender identity.
    — Katie Rogers, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023

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