Gender Identity

• CURIE: gmeow:GenderIdentity
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/GenderIdentity
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/gender
• Box roles: TBox role (What is this?)

A person's SELF-ASSERTED gender identity — what they are — as a reified facet pointing (via gmeow:genderValue) to an open gmeow:Gender value. Independent of pronouns/honorifics (address), of gender expression, and of sex-assigned-at-birth; nothing infers any of these from another. Multiple co-equal GenderIdentity facets express bigender/genderfluid/transition without privileging any.

Structure

Subclass of: gmeow:IdentityFacet

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:GenderIdentity as a specialized kind of gmeow:IdentityFacet. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Self Asserted Facets

• Source: slices/core/gender/examples/self-asserted-facets.ttl
• Examples catalog: open in catalog#example-slices-core-gender-examples-self-asserted-facets

# --- The self-asserted identity: subject is its own vantage; displayed.
ex:selfId a gmeow:GenderIdentity ;
    gmeow:facetSubject  ex:robin ;
    gmeow:facetVantage  ex:robin ;
    gmeow:genderValue   gmeow:genderNonBinary ;
    gmeow:selfAsserted  true ;
    gmeow:displayable   true .

# --- An external registry's conflicting record: its vantage is the REGISTRY,
#     not Robin — kept for provenance but SUPPRESSED (P10) and never self-
#     asserted, because self-assertion outranks an imported datum.
ex:registryId a gmeow:GenderIdentity ;
    gmeow:facetSubject ex:robin ;
    gmeow:facetVantage ex:registry ;
    gmeow:genderValue  gmeow:genderWoman ;
    gmeow:selfAsserted false ;
    gmeow:displayable  false .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:IdentityFacet

External Equivalences

Equivalent or closely aligned targets: homosaurus

Linkages

Generated from the canonical mapping DSL. SSSOM files are the generated public interchange form for term equivalences.

Term Equivalences

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use to record what a person identifies as, as a self-asserted facet pointing at an open gmeow:Gender value; mint one facet per co-equal identity so bigender, genderfluid, or a transition are all expressible without privileging any.

Avoid when

• Avoid for how a person presents (gmeow:GenderExpression), for how they are addressed (pronouns/honorifics in names), and for the recorded sex datum (gmeow:sexAssignedAtBirth); never infer one of these from another.

How to use

• Attach via gmeow:hasGenderIdentity, set gmeow:genderValue to a seeded or freshly minted gmeow:Gender individual, and carry gmeow:hasDeterminacy when the identity is fuzzy or fluid; supersede a label with gmeow:displayable false, never deletion.

Examples

• ex:gi a gmeow:GenderIdentity; gmeow:genderValue gmeow:genderNonBinary; gmeow:selfAsserted true; gmeow:hasDeterminacy gmeow:determinacyFuzzy.

Use For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerAgentMemory
• gmeow:consumerInternalArchive

Avoid For Consumers

• gmeow:consumerPublicSite
• gmeow:consumerWikidata