During an assessment the population health nurse believes that a client who identifies with the GLBT community is a gender nonconforming individual. What did the nurse assess to make this clinical determination?
1. Prefers to have sexual relations with both sexes.
2. Does not confirm to societal gender expectations.
3. Client states being a woman trapped in a man's body.
4. Self-perceived gender is congruent with assigned birth gender.
Answer: 2
Explanation: 2. A gender-nonconforming individual is one who by nature or choice does not conform to societal gender expectations A person who prefers to have sexual relations with both sexes would be considered bisexual. Transsexuals are persons who believe they were born into the "wrong" body and are actually members of the opposite gender. Cisgender refers to an individual whose self-perceived gender is congruent with his or her assigned birth gender.
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