SDHSS-Profiles
Person - Gender light
Questions to answer
Description
This profile describes the classification of individuals based on their gender (the gender itself should be manage by controlled vocabularies) without the notion of temporallity. This means that changes in gender cannot be documented, but multiple genders can be assigned at the same time.
For a more detailed, flexible and fluid description of gender, please activate the Person - Gender extended profile.
What can be described in this profile
- The Gender of the person, documented with controlled vocabularies
Diagram
Examples
Example 1
Louis Pasteur is classified as a male, using the wikidata vocabulary instance http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6581097
Example 2
Claude Cahun (1894 - 1954), a french surrealist photographer, sculptor and writer, was assigned the gender female from birth (Assigned female at birth from the homosaurus vocabulary, https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000077), and even if she reffereed to herself as “elle” (her), she also mentionned that her gender was fluid (Genderfluid identity, https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000569).