N april 2015, olympic gold medalist and former "world's greatest athlete" bruce jenner announced that: "for all intents and purposes, i am a woman." jenner discussed transitioning with diane sawyer in a special two-hour edition of the abc news show 20/20. in the interview, jenner stated: "as of now, i have all the male parts, but i still identify as female." what does this tell you about gender identity

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Janiyah

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11 July, 09:26

N april 2015, olympic gold medalist and former "world's greatest athlete" bruce jenner announced that: "for all intents and purposes, i am a woman." jenner discussed transitioning with diane sawyer in a special two-hour edition of the abc news show 20/20. in the interview, jenner stated: "as of now, i have all the male parts, but i still identify as female." what does this tell you about gender identity

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Derick Guerra · Answer 1

Gender identity is defined as one's own personal experience with their gender. A person's gender identity does not have to correlate with their assigned sex at birth. Caitlin Jenner's quote above agrees with the fact that gender identity does not have to correlate with one's sex organs.