Gender Identity in the Contemporary Age: It Is Often a Suffered Conquest

Gender identity is strictly connected to biological sex, but it is not determined by it. The sex-gender distinction made it possible to challenge biological determinism, which had historically claimed to provide a scientific foundation for gender differences. Gender does not have a biological origin, but a sociocultural one; it is the centennial conditioning that has determined gender differences, making them perceive as natural rather than culturally learned dispositions. In the last few years homosexuality, and the various characteristics that distinguish it, is becoming an increasingly visible and relevant reality both in sociocultural and the scientific fields, also and above all within clinical psychology and mental health.