Asexual | Does not experience sexual attraction or desire. |
Pansexual | Can be attracted to any sex or gender. |
Binary system | A system comprised of two opposing parts. Male/Female is a binary system for sex, and man/woman is a binary system for gender. |
Gender | Complex: influenced by each of the gender terms below, based on emotional, behavioral, and cultural characteristics. |
Gender identity | Our internal, personal sense of what our gender is, is one view, everyone has gender identity, like sexual orientation, gender identity can be conceptualized as infinite points along a continuum. |
Gender fluid | Gender identity that shifts, it may or may not be binary. A gender fluid individual may feel like a man some days, and like a woman some days, they may or may not also identify as non-binary as genderqueer, some or all of the time. |
Genderqueer | Individual acknowledges the “queer” in a persons’ sense of self. |
Cisgender | Individual who gender identity “matches” the sex of their body and the gender they were assigned at birth. |
Agender | Individual who identifies as being without a gender. |
Transsexual | Individual who seeks medical or surgical treatments as part of the process of expressing their gender. |
Lesbian | Individual who is a homosexual woman. The word lesbian is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation. Or same-sex attraction. |
Gay | Individual whose sexual orientation is the same sex. Often referred to the men only. |
Bisexual | Individual who is sexually attracted not exclusively to people of one particular gender. |