Which term defines a personally gratifying interpretation of a person's own masculinity or femininity?

• A. Gender Preference
• B. Gender Role
• C. Gender Identification
• D. Gender Adoption

Answer: (C)

The idea being tested is gender identity—the internal sense of one’s own gender. This is how a person feels about being male, female, both, neither, or somewhere along the spectrum, regardless of their biological sex or outward appearance. The phrase about a personally gratifying interpretation of masculinity or femininity describes that inner sense of self—how someone internally identifies.

That makes the right term gender identification, since it focuses on how the person perceives and names their own gender from the inside. The other terms describe different things: gender preference relates to attraction or choice, gender role refers to societal expectations about how someone of a given gender should behave, and gender adoption isn’t the standard term for this concept.