There are currently seven adult Gender Identity• One’s innermost concept of self as male or female or both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One’s gender identity can be the same or different than the sex assigned at birth. Individuals are conscious of this between the ages 18 months and 3 years. Most people develop a gender identity that matches their biological sex. For some, however, their gender identity is different from their biological or assigned sex. Some of these individuals choose to socially, hormonally and/or surgically change their sex to more fully match their gender identity.
• The gender to which one feels one belongs.
• Internal and psychological sense of oneself as a woman, a man, both, in between, or neither.
Clinics in England for those who are 17 or older:
- The Laurels Gender and Sexual Medicine Clinic, Exeter
- Leeds Gender Identity Service
- Charing Cross Gender Identity Clinic, London
- Northampton Gender Identity Clinic
- Nottingham Centre for Gender Dysphoria
- Porterbrook Clinic Gender Identity Service, Sheffield
- Northern Region Gender Dysphoria Service, Newcastle
For those who are under 17 there is the Tavistock and Portman Gender Identity Development Service which is based in London but also has a clinic in Leeds.