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In this article I am proposing a differentiated definition between the sexuated, the sexual, and gender. I am formulating a re-reading of these notions which constantly challenge the question of identity from two angles : from the psychoanalytic perspective of linking as developed by René Kaës, and from the semiotic perspective as an inscription that makes sense in linking and in the transmission of identity. Group psychoanalysis allows us to think about identity from a psychoanalytic standpoint. With reference to my conceptualisation of the meshwork of linking, my approach will be structured by a differentiation between the notion of linking and that of relationship. My hypothesis is that the sexuated is to linking what the sexual is to relationship. Gender is the social and cultural expression of the sexuated and the sexual. I will distinguish the notion of « sexual » described by Jean Laplanche. The clinical field of the sexuated is not the same as that of the sexual or of gender I will illustrate this with reference to issues where the sexuated or the sexual comes into play. For example, clinical questions such as the « transsexual enigma », attacks on the feminine as attacks against linking and against the containers of identity, or in relation to women raped in ex-Yugoslavia, or to gender differences in Polynesian society. The doubly sexuated inscription of linking is described in the Kanak community in New Caledonia. On the basis of these diverse situations of identity in the diversity of social and cultural contexts in which the expressions of gender are manifested, I will conclude with the exigency of a clinical ethical principle, namely, listening to difference.