Phenomenology and Gender

What is gender and how do we define it? These are two questions that are coming up in our culture currently and have major implications for how we interact and view others. As the number of individuals that identify as LGBTQA+ increases, it is necessary for practical applications such as counseling, psychoanalysis, and therapy to have an understanding of gender. There is a diverse set of ideas in philosophy about how gender is expressed and comes into being; however, the focus of this research is to investigate the main phenomenological approaches to gender expression as well as sexuality.