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Gender Identity

Support every child to feel safe, understood, and accepted for who they are. This online course builds confident, inclusive practice around gender identity — covering key terminology, the law, age-appropriate conversations, and how to work respectfully with parents, colleagues, and children in your setting.

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Created by nursery.training
Last updated 16th April 2026

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Gender identity is the personal sense of a person’s own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person’s assigned sex at birth or can differ from it. Gender is no longer seen as the same thing as sex as there are now multiple ways to identify other than male or female.

Gender stereotypes have changed over time and children nowadays should be allowed to develop their own thoughts on their gender, and their parents and carers can help them reach these decisions through different ways.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

As part of the National Nursery Training Gender Identity course you will learn:

  • The difference between sex and gender
  • Gender identity development
  • How parents/carers can help
  • How gender stereotypes have changed over time

CERTIFICATION

Successful candidates will be awarded the National Nursery Training Gender Identity Course Completion Certificate.

Upon Successful completion you will receive a certificate confirming course completion. Accreditation is provided by National Nursery Training. This can be used to provide evidence for compliance and audit. The purpose of this qualification is for the update and continued professional development (CPD).

National Nursery Training is an accredited CPD Training Provider #776846 with the CPD Accreditation Group.

Duration: 1 hour

Course Content

Gender Identity

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