Gender traditionally refers to a social and cultural construct of being a man or a woman. However, some people do not identify within the gender binary of man/woman. Gender exists independently of sex, and an individual’s gender does not always correspond with the sex assigned at birth. Gender expression is the external manifestations of gender, expressed through a person’s name, pronouns, clothing, haircut, behaviour, voice or body characteristics. Society identifies these cues as masculine or feminine, although what is considered masculine and feminine changes over time and varies by culture. Gender identity is a person’s inner sense of their gender. For trans people, their own internal gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Most people have a gender identity of man or woman (or boy or girl), but for some people it does not fit neatly into one of those two choices. Gender identifier or marker is a gendered designator on, for example, an identity document (passports). The most obvious gender markers are designations such as male/female or Mr/ Mrs/Ms/Miss. Genderqueer or gender-fluid or non-binary describe a person who does not identify with the male/ female binary but somewhere outside or between. FOR THE RECORD 2016 | 53 TGEU TERMINOLOGY