Safeguarding: Transgender

Gender identity refers to an individual’s subjective sense of being male, female, both, neither or something else. Assigned sex is given at birth based on the appearance of the genitals. Some children and adolescents experience distress because they feel that their behaviours or preferences do not fit the gender stereotypes society expects. The term transgender is used where a person’s gender identity is different to their sex assigned at birth. Gender Dysphoria (GD) describes the discomfort or distress that a person experiences when there is a mismatch between their assigned sex and the gender with which they identify.