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Conveys a wider, more flexible range of gender identity and/or expression than typically associated with the binary gender system
Gender Expansive
A person whose gender identity is neither man nor woman but between or beyond traditional genders
Gender Queer
How a person in their mind thinks about themselves. This is based on a society’s expectation about how people look, think, and act as someone of a specific gender
Gender Identity
Refers to individuals who are attracted to a person of any gender, but they are not gender blind and thus are aware of the person’s gender
Omnisexual
Describes a person’s biological combination of hormones, organs, genitals and chromosomes
Biological Sex
Having both masculine and feminine qualities
Androgynous
A person whose gender identity is different from the gender they were assigned at birth
Transgender
A term that can be used by people who do not describe themselves or their genders as fitting into the categories of man or woman
Nonbinary
The way a person presents (shows) and communicates their gender identity through actions, dress, behaviors and speech
Gender Expression
An adjective that can describe a person who does not identify as any gender
Agender
This describes a variety of conditions in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy, chromosomes or hormones that don’t fit the typical definition of male and female
Intersex
Someone whose gender identity and/or expression varies over time
Gender Fluid
A person who needs to feel an emotional tie to another person in order to be attracted to them
Demisexual
Refers to people whose sexual and romantic feelings are primarily for the opposite gender
Heterosexual
An adjective that describes a person whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth
Cisgender
A person’s romantic, emotional, physical or sexual attraction to another person
Sexual Orientation
