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'''Gender Modality''' refers to the correspondence (or lack thereof) between one's [[Assigned Gender|assigned gender at birth]] and one's actual gender identity. The two primary, and most well known gender modalities are [[cisgender]] and [[transgender]]. However, those are not the only possible modalities one can have. Gender modality is an open-ended category which welcomes the elaboration of further terms.
While the term "trans" may by defined as ''any'' lack of correspondence between gender identity and gender assigned at birth, some may find the all-or-nothing nature of ‘correspondence’ too constraining, or may feel that their relationship with their assigned gender at birth is more complex than can be described through the terms cis or trans. The cis-trans binary is challenged by some [[Non-Binary|non-binary]] people (especially [[agender]] people) as well as some [[intersex]] people and plural system members, who feel like they do not fit either term. Gender modalities also creates a space for cultures in which terms like trans and cis do not reflect understandings of gender in that society.
==Modalities==
*[[Cisgender]]: When one's assigned gender at birth is the same as one's actual gender.
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