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Referring to a persons' gender identity, explain how a person's masculine and feminine traits can be described using the continuum of masculinity-femininity.

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This solution describes what gender identity is and describes it using the masculinity-femininity continuum.

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Gender identity is what a person feels like on the inside and how they see themselves. On one end of the continuum you have the masculine traits, and on the other end you have the feminine traits. A man is "supposed" to masculine and a woman ...

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