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Understanding Gender and Sexuality

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GENDER _____: External appearance of one's gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, body characteristics or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine.
SEXUAL-______: An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people.
Exposing someone’s lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender or gender non-binary identity to others without their permission.
GENDER NON-_______: A broad term referring to people who do not behave in a way that conforms to the traditional expectations of their gender, or whose gender expression does not fit neatly into a category. While many also identify as transgender, not all gender non-conforming people do.
An acronym for “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer.”
A series of processes that some transgender people may undergo in order to live more fully as their true gender.
A term people often use to express a spectrum of identities and orientations that are counter to the mainstream. This term was previously used as a slur, but has been reclaimed by many parts of the LGBTQ movement.
A person emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to more than one sex, gender or gender identity though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree. Sometimes used interchangeably with pansexual.
A term used to describe a person whose gender identity aligns with those typically associated with the sex assigned to them at birth.
A person who is emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to members of the same gender. Men, women and non-binary people may use this term to describe themselves.
Describes someone who has the potential for emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to people of any gender though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree. Sometimes used interchangeably with bisexual.
An adjective describing a person who does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman.
The lack of a sexual attraction or desire for other people.
GENDER _____: A system in which gender is constructed into two strict categories of male or female. Gender identity is expected to align with the sex assigned at birth and gender expressions and roles fit traditional expectations.
People born with a variety of differences in their sex traits and reproductive anatomy. There is a wide variety of difference including differences in genitalia, chromosomes, gonads, internal sex organs, hormone production, hormone response, and/or secondary sex traits.
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A term used to describe people who are in the process of exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity.
People who typically reject notions of static categories of gender and embrace a fluidity of gender identity and often, though not always, sexual orientation. People who may see themselves as being both male and female, neither male nor female or as falling completely outside these categories.
An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth.
GENDER-____: A person who does not identify with a single fixed gender or has a fluid or unfixed gender identity.
The fear and hatred of or discomfort with people who are attracted to members of the same sex.
SAME-GENDER ______: A term some prefer to use instead of lesbian, gay or bisexual to express attraction to and love of people of the same gender.
GENDER-________: One’s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves.
The fear and hatred of, or discomfort with, people who love and are sexually attracted to more than one gender.
GENDER _____: Clinically significant distress caused when a person's assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify.
GENDER-_____: A person with a wider, more flexible range of gender identity and/or expression than typically associated with the binary gender system. Often used as an umbrella term when referring to young people still exploring the possibilities of their gender expression and/or gender identity.
A woman who is emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to other women. Women and non-binary people may use this term to describe themselves.
SEX ASSIGNED AT ______: The sex, male, female or intersex, that a doctor or midwife uses to describe a child at birth based on their external anatomy.
COMING ____: The process in which a person first acknowledges, accepts and appreciates their sexual orientation or gender identity and begins to share that with others.
A term used to describe someone who is actively supportive of LGBTQ people. It encompasses straight and cisgender allies, as well as those within the LGBTQ community who support each other (e.g., a lesbian who is an ally to the bisexual community).