Accuracy in Media

CBS News published three pieces on gender identities and sexual orientation, in case you were itching to know:

• The gender identity terms you need to know
• The difference between sexual orientation and gender identity
• Social media, celebrities and transgender youth

One of the articles discussed gender identities and gave definitions:

Androgynous: Identifying and/or presenting as neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine.

Bigender: Someone whose gender identity encompasses both man and woman. Some may feel that one side or the other is stronger, but both sides are present.

Binary: The gender binary is a system of viewing gender as consisting solely of two identities and sexes, man and woman or male and female.

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