SEX CHARACTERISTICS (SC) or male and is based on external People usually think of gender

- are a person’s physical traits genitalia. as a binary of woman and man

that indicate their biological sex, (GENDER BINARY) or as a
such as chromosomes, external TERMS TO KNOW spectrum with woman on one
genitalia, gonads, hormones, ●​ cisgender end and man on the other
and internal reproductive organs. ●​ non-binary (GENDER SPECTRUM), but not
●​ gender all people think of gender this
PRIMARY SEX ●​ gender binary way
CHARACTERISTICS - traits ●​ gender identity
present at birth, such as vaginas ●​ transgender TWO-SPIRIT - is an umbrella
and penises. ●​ transitioning term coined by indigenous
people of Turtle Island (North
SECONDARY SEX GENDER - encompasses these America) to represent people of
CHARACTERISTICS - those cultural and societal diverse genders.
that develop during puberty, expectations of how girls,
such as larger breasts and women, boys, and men should Non-binary genders include:
Adam’s apples. be. ●​ AGENDER (no gender)
●​ BIGENDER (two
We should note, however, that GENDER IDENTITY (GI) - is a genders),
not everyone’s sex person’s deeply felt internal and ●​ GENDERFLUID (a
characteristics can be easily individual experience of gender, changing experience of
categorized as female or male. whether as female, male, or gender)
Some people don’t have XX or another identity, which may or ●​ GENDERQUEER or
XY chromosomes. They can may not align with their sex QUEER
have only an X chromosome, assigned at birth.
and others have extra TRANSITIONING - is a
chromosomes, such as XXX, If your gender matches your sex usually-long, complex, and
XXY, or XYY chromosomes. assigned at birth, you’re personal process that
CISGENDER (shortened to transgender people undergo to
FEMALE - XX chromosomes, CIS). For example, if you’re a live as their true selves.
vagina, ovaries, higher levels of woman who was assigned
estrogen and progesterone, etc. female at birth (AFAB), you are a GENDERAFFIRMING ACTS -
cisgender woman or a cis There are various modes of
INTERSEX - because their woman. transitioning: INTERNAL,
primary and/or secondary sex SOCIAL, LEGAL, and
characteristics or the Sex Assigned at birth MEDICAL.
combination of their biological ●​ Female
traits differ from the two ●​ Male TRANSSEXUAL -people are
expected patterns of “female” Gender Identity transgender
and “male,” and therefore cannot ●​ woman people who have undergone or
be easily categorized as either of ●​ man are currently
them. undergoing medical
TRANSGENDER - if your transitioning, i.e.,
MALE - XY chromosomes, gender doesn’t align with your hormone replacement therapy
penis, testes, higher levels of sex assigned at birth. which is (HRT) and/or
testosterone, etc. an umbrella term that describes gender-affirming surgery. Not all
people whose transgender
HERMAPHRODITE - to describe gender doesn’t match their sex people can or want to medically
intersex people has negative assigned at birth. For example, if transition
connotations/implications. you are a woman who was
assigned male at birth (AMAB), TERMS TO KNOW:
SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH - you are a transgender woman or ●​ androgynous
categorizes a person as female a trans woman. ●​ feminine - they have
long hair; they wear
 blouses, dresses or ●​ gay ●​ QUEER - (See Queer
skirts, and flats, heels, ●​ heterosexual under Other terms
or sandals. ●​ lesbian - woman related to sex, gender,
●​ gender conforming attracted to other and sexuality).
●​ gender conformity women. ●​ SEXUALLYFLUID -
●​ gender expression ●​ sexual orientation - is (changing attraction)
●​ gender non-conforming a person’s inherent and
●​ masculine - they have enduring capacity for ASEXUAL - If you’re not
short hair; they wear emotional, romantic, or attracted to people of any
button-down or polo sexual attraction to gender or if you experience little
shirts, pants, or shorts, people of a different to no sexual attraction.
and sneakers; they gender, the same
don’t use make-up. gender, or more than The Q in LGBTQIA+ (commonly
one gender. “lesbian, gay,
GENDER EXPRESSION (GE) - bisexual, transgender, queer,
is the external appearance of a HETEROSEXUAL - If you’re a intersex, asexual, and other
person’s gender, usually man attracted to people of a gender and sexual minority
expressed through behavior, different gender than yours identities”) means QUEER and
clothing, haircut, names, (women, for example), or QUESTIONING. QUEER used
pronouns, or voice, which may vice-versa. to be a slur towards the
or may not conform to their LGBTQIA+ community.
gender identity or to socially STRAIGHT - to describe
defined behaviors and heterosexual people. QUESTIONING - is used to refer
characteristics typically to people who are still in the
associated with being either HOMOSEXUAL - to describe process of exploring their sexual
feminine or masculine. gay men and lesbian women has orientation, gender identity, or
negative gender expression.
ANDROGYNOUS - If you’re connotations/implications.
somewhere in between feminine The + in LGBTQIA+ stands for
and masculine. MONOSEXUAL - labels that all other gender and sexual
refer to attraction to people of minority identities that are not
●​ Androgyny (andr one gender. If you’re attracted to part of the first seven letters.
meaning man and people of more than one gender
gyne- meaning (men and women, for example). PEOPLE OF DIVERSE
woman), in terms of SOGIESC - because it’s more
gender expression, is BISEXUAL - (sometimes inclusive of gender
the combination of BISEXUAL+, or shortened to BI non-conforming people who are
feminine and masculine or BI+), which is an umbrella not lesbian, gay, bisexual,
elements, or term that describes attraction transgender, queer, intersex, or
sometimes, being or towards people of more than one asexual.
feeling neither of the gender.
two. HOMOPHOBIA,
●​ OMNISEXUAL - (omni- TRANSPHOBIA, and
GENDER CONFORMING - meaning all; attraction BIPHOBIA - are used to refer to
when one’s gender expression to peopleof all negative attitudes towards gay
aligns with their gender identity. genders). men and lesbian women,
●​ PANSEXUAL - (pan- transgender people, and
GENDER NONCONFORMING - meaning all; attraction bisexual people, respectively.
one’s gender expression doesn’t to people regardless of
match their gender identity. their gender) LGBTQIA+ advocates, therefore,
●​ POLYSEXUAL - propose the use of the terms
TERMS TO KNOW: (poly-meaning many; HETEROSEXISM instead of
●​ asexual attraction to people of homophobia, CISSEXISM
●​ bisexual many genders), instead of transphobia, and
MONOSEXISM instead of INSTEAD OF AN "PRE-OPERATION"
biphobia, which recognize that INDIVIDUAL PERSON AND
negative attitudes towards ●​ AVOID "POST-OPERATION"
LGBTQIA+ people are systemic “HOMOSEXUAL / GAY AS WELL
issues of discrimination rather / LESBIAN COUPLE, ●​ USE "VISIBLY
than individual ones. “HOMOSEXUAL TRANSGENDER" AND
RELATIONS, AND "NOT VISIBLY
MALAYA - represents our vision “HOMOSEXUAL TRANSGENDER"
for all Filipinos: that every RELATIONSHIP” INSTEAD OF
Filipino, regardless of their ●​ USE “MARRIAGE "CLOCKABLE,"
sexual orientation, gender EQUALITY” INSTEAD "(NOT) PASSING,"
identity, gender expression, and OF “GAY MARRIAGE” "STEALTH," AND
sex characteristics, is free to live OR “SAMESEX "TRAP.”
as they are and to their fullest MARRIAGE. ●​ USE
potential. ●​ USE "CROSS-DRESSER"
“HETEROSEXISM” INSTEAD
USE “SEXUAL ORIENTATION” AND “MONOSEXISM” "TRANSVESTITE" OR
INSTEAD OF “SEXUAL INSTEAD OF "TRANNY.”
PREFERENCE.” For many “HOMOPHOBIA ” ●​ USE "INTERSEX"
people—heterosexual, asexual, AND “BIPHOBIA,” INSTEAD OF
bisexual, gay, and lesbian RESPECTIVELY "HERMAPHRODITE.”
alike—sexual attraction is not a ●​ USE ●​ USE "INTERSEX
choice, unlike what the term "TRANSGENDER" AS CHARACTERISTICS"
“preference” implies. AN ADJECTIVE INSTEAD OF
INSTEAD OF A NOUN "DISORDERS OF SEX
USE “[BEING] GAY / OR A VERB. DEVELOPMENT
LESBIAN” INSTEAD OF ●​ USE "BEING (DSD)" AND
“HOMOSEXUAL[ITY].” The TRANSGENDER" "INTERSEX
term “homosexuality” (and INSTEAD OF CONDITIONS.”
“homosexual”) originated from "TRANSGENDERISM.
the American Psychiatric ” ASEXUAL - The sexual
Association (APA) when they ●​ USE "TRANS MAN" orientation of a person who
classified same-gender AND "TRANS generally does not experience
attraction as a mental illness. WOMAN" INSTEAD attraction towards anyone.
OF "TRANSMAN"
USE “HETEROSEXUAL” AND BIPHOBIA - An outdated term
INSTEAD OF “STRAIGHT” - "TRANSWOMAN.” used to refer to MONOSEXISM.
“Straight” implies that asexual, ●​ AVOID "SAME-SEX
bisexual, gay, and lesbian COUPLE," BISEXUAL - The sexual
people (i.e., people who are not "SAME-SEX orientation of a person who is
heterosexual) are “crooked.” RELATIONS," AND attracted to people of more than
"SAME-SEX one gender. Some terms under
●​ USE THE TERMS “ RELATIONSHIP.” the bisexual umbrella include
ASEXUAL” ●​ USE OMNISEXUAL, POLYSEXUAL,
“BISEXUAL,” AND "GENDER-AFFIRMING and PANSEXUAL.
“GAY” AS SURGERY" INSTEAD
ADJECTIVES OF "SEX CISGENDER - The gender
INSTEAD OF NOUNS. REASSIGNMENT identity of a person who is not
●​ USE THE INITIALISM SURGERY (SRS).” transgender, i.e., whose gender
“LGBTQIA+” TO ●​ USE "MEDICAL identity aligns with their sex or
DESCRIBE A GROUP TRANSITION" gender assigned at birth.
OF PEOPLE OF INSTEAD OF "SEX
DIVERSE SOGIESC CHANGE CISSEXISM - The system of
OPERATION." AVOID discrimination that oppresses
transgender and gender GENDERQUEER - A person bisexual people, based on the
non-conforming people, based whose gender identity does not belief that all people are, or
on the belief that there are, and conform to cisgender norms. should be, attracted to people of
should be, only two genders only one gender (i.e., gay,
(i.e., female and male); and that HETEROSEXISM - The system lesbian, or heterosexual).
one's gender depends on their of discrimination that oppresses
sex assigned at birth. non-heterosexual people (e.g., NON-BINARY - A person whose
those who are asexual, bisexual, gender does not fall within the
GAY - The sexual orientation of gay, lesbian), based on the belief gender binary of female and
a person (usually a man) who is that all people are, or should be, male. Some terms under the
attracted to people of the same heterosexual. non-binary umbrella include
gender, e.g., "a gay man," "a gay AGENDER, BIGENDER,
woman." HETEROSEXUAL - The sexual GENDERFLUID, and
orientation of a person who is GENDERQUEER or QUEER.
GENDER - A social construct attracted to people of a different
used to categorize a person as gender. QUEER - A radical and
female, male, or another identity, transgressive umbrella term
which is different from and НОМОРНОBIA An outdated used to describe a person
usually based on one's sex term used to refer to whose sexual orientation,
assigned at birth. HETEROSEX SM. gender identity, or gender
expression does not conform to
GENDER DYSPHORIA - A HOMOSEXUAL - An outdated cisgender-heterosexual norms.
mental illness characterized by term used to refer to GAY or
the distress a person may feel LESBIAN. QUESTIONING - A person who
when their gender identity does is still in the process of exploring
not UPCWGS align their sex or INTERSEX - A person whose their sexual orientation, gender
gender assigned at birth. Not all primary and/or secondary sex identity, or gender expression.
transgender people experience characteristics, or their
gender dysphoria. combination of chromosomes, SEX ASSIGNED AT BIRTH - A
external genitalia, gonads, social construct used to
GENDER EXPRESSION (GE) - hormones, and/or internal categorize a person as female or
The external appearance of a reproductive organs, differ from male based on their sex
person's gender, usually the two expected patterns of characteristics but is usually
expressed through behavior, "female" and "male" and cannot based on external genitalia.
clothing, haircut, or voice, which be easily categorized as either of
may or may not conform to them. SEX CHARACTERISTICS - A
socially defined behaviors and person's physical traits that
characteristics typically LESBIAN - A woman who is indicate their biological sex, such
associated with being either attracted to people of the same as chromosomes, external
feminine or masculine. gender, i.e., women. genitalia, gonads, hormones,
and internal reproductive organs.
GENDER IDENTITY (GI) - A MISGENDERING - An act Traits present at birth are called
person's innermost concept of wherein someone attributes to a PR MARY SEX
self as female, male, or another person a gender that does not CHARACTERISTICS, whereas
identity, which may or may not align with said person's gender those that develop during
correspond with their sex or identity by using the wrong puberty are called SECONDARY
gender assigned at birth. name, pronouns, or titles, SEX CHARACTERISTICS.
regardless of their knowledge of
GENDER NON-CONFORMING - the person's SOGIESC or their SEXISM - The system of
A person whose gender chosen name, pronouns, or discrimination that oppresses
expression does not align with titles. women, based on the belief that
their gender identity, e.g., women are inferior to men.
feminine men.. MONOSEXISM - A system of
discrimination that oppresses
SEXUAL ORIENTATION - An
inherent or immutable enduring
emotional, romantic, or sexual
attraction to other people.

STRAIGHT - An outdated term

used to refer to
HETEROSEXUAL.

TRANSGENDER- A person
whose gender identity does not
align with their sex or gender
assigned at birth, frequently
abbreviated to TRANS or
TRANS*. Some terms under the
transgender umbrella include
GENDERQUEER,
NON-BINARY, and
TRANSSEXUAL

TRANSPHOBIA - An outdated
term used to refer to CISSEX
SM.

TRANSSEXUAL - Refers to
transgender people who have
undergone or are in the process
of undergoing medical
transitioning, i.e.,
gender-affirming surgery,
hormone replacement therapy.
Not all transgender people are
transsexual or undergo medical
transitioning.