A person whose gender identity differs from the sex assigned at birth is described as what term?

• A. Intersex
• B. Transgender
• C. Cisgender
• D. Genderqueer

Answer: (B)

The concept being tested is how gender identity relates to the sex assigned at birth. The term for a person whose internal sense of gender does not align with the sex they were assigned at birth is transgender. This label specifically describes that mismatch between gender identity and birth-assigned sex, not sexual orientation or biological variations. Intersex refers to variations in physical sex characteristics, not gender identity. Cisgender describes someone whose gender identity matches their birth-assigned sex. Genderqueer is a broader term used for nonbinary identities and can overlap with transgender, but it doesn’t pinpoint the mismatch at birth as clearly as transgender does.