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Person Gender
https://healthterminologies.gov.au/fhir/CodeSystem/person-gender-1
The Person Gender code system defines concepts that support the recording of a person's gender. Gender is a social and cultural concept. It is about social and cultural differences in identity, expression and experience as a man, boy, woman, girl, or non-binary person. Non-binary is an umbrella term describing gender identities that are not exclusively male or female. The concepts defined in this code system are equivalent to those defined in the value domain for the METEOR data element Person—gender, code X https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/741842.

# description
The Person Gender code system defines concepts that support the recording of a person's gender. Gender is a social and cultural concept. It is about social and cultural differences in identity, expression and experience as a man, boy, woman, girl, or non-binary person. Non-binary is an umbrella term describing gender identities that are not exclusively male or female. The concepts defined in this code system are equivalent to those defined in the value domain for the METEOR data element Person—gender, code X https://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/741842.

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A person who describes their gender as man, or boy, or male.

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A person who describes their gender as woman, or girl, or female.

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A person who describes their gender as non-binary.

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A person who describes their gender as a term other than man/boy/male, woman/girl/female or non-binary.

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A person who prefers not to respond on how they describe their gender.

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This supplementary value is used to code inadequately described responses and non-responses for gender. It is not to be used on primary collection forms. It is primarily for use in administrative collections when transferring data from data sets where the item has not been collected.