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GENDER

DIRECTORY

This directory is to help you understand the rich LGBTQIA+ sexual diversity that our world harbors.

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  1. Agender: relates to a person who does not identify with any particular gender-identity 

  2. Ally, straight ally or heterosexual ally: describes a heterosexual and a cisgender person who supports equal rights for people from the LGBTQIA+ community and challenge homophobia

  3. Aporagender: an umbrella term that refers to a perceived sense of gender that is not specifically male, female, neutral, or anything in between. However, it does not refer to genderlessness

  4. Asexual: denotes a person who experiences little to no sexual attraction

  5. Autosexual: people who experience sexual attraction primarily towards themselves  

  6. Bicurious: denotes heterosexual people who are unsure about their sexuality and might be bisexual

  7. Bigender: refers to a person who identifies with two binary or non-binary gender identities simultaneously or is fluid between the two.

  8. Bisexual: one who is attracted to genders similar or dissimilar to one's own

  9. Ceterosexual: a non-binary person who is primarily or exclusively attracted to non-binary people

  10. Cisgender: a person whose gender identity corresponds with the one assigned to that person at the time of birth 

  11. Female: a person with feminine characteristics

  12. Gay: a homosexual person who is attracted to people of the same gender

  13. Gender-Binary: refers to the classification of genders into a distinct form of feminine and masculine

  14. Gender-fluid: refers to non-binary gender identity that is not static and changes over a period of time

  15. Gender-neutral: refers to an all-inclusive approach towards people of all genders and not only female or male 

  16. Genderqueer: relates to a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively female or male  

  17. Heterosexual: a person who is attracted to people of the opposite sex

  18. Homosexual: a person who is attracted to people of the same sex

  19. Intergender: gender identity in between the female and the male genders which can be a mix of both

  20. Intersex: a collective term for a variety of conditions in which the reproductive or sexual anatomy of a person does not fit into typical female or male categories

  21. Lesbian: a homosexual woman or a woman who is attracted to another woman

  22. LGBTQIA+: a common abbreviation that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, agender, asexual, and others belonging to the queer-identifying community

  23. Male: a person with masculine characteristics

  24. Non-Binary: a spectrum of gender identities that are beyond the gender binary and not exclusively feminine or masculine

  25. Pangender: a person who identifies with all genders

  26. Pansexual: a person who is attracted to people of all gender identities

  27. Polygender: a person who identifies with various gender identities, simultaneously or over a period of time

  28. Polysexual: a person who is attracted to people of multiple gender identities

  29. Questioning: a process of exploration by people who are unsure about their gender identity

  30. Spectrasexual: refers to a person who is attracted to people from multiple gender identities but not necessarily all or any

  31. Straight: a heterosexual person who is attracted to people of the opposite sex

  32. Transgender:  people who identify with a gender that is inconsistent with their sex assigned at the time of their birth 

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