Gender and sexual identity are fluid.

Feelings about gender and sexuality become prominent during adolescence.

Fluidity in thought processes might show up as gender ambiguity or sexual uncertainty.

Gender is a psychological concept. It is less about the body we’re born into, and more about how we perceive ourselves – as masculine, feminine, neither, both, something in between, or something that shifts. Gender is not a binary concept; it is fluid rather than fixed. Some little boys develop into big, strong men. Others become beautiful, strong women. Most are somewhere in between. Similarly, sexuality is neither binary nor fixed, especially in the early years of sexual awakening. This isn’t because young people are “following a trend” or “under the influence of ideology." It’s because they’re discovering who they are and who they are and aren’t attracted to as they transition from........

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