Health practice

Sex

A PERSON'S BIOLOGICAL STATUS. IT IS TYPICALLY ASSIGNED AT BIRTH BASED ON A PERSON'S EXTERNAL GENITALIA. HOWEVER, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF MARKERS, INCLUDING HORMONES, GONADS, AND CHROMOSOMES.

Gender Identity

A PERSON'S SELF-IDENTIFICATION. IT MAY OR MAY NOT CORRESPOND WITH A PERSON'S SEX AS ASSIGNED AT BIRTH. ADDITIONALLY, EACH PERSON'S EXPRESSION IS UNIQUE AND MAY OR MAY NOT CONFORM TO TRADITIONAL NOTIONS OF MASCULINITY AND FEMININITY.

Non-Binary

IDENTITIES THAT CANNOT BE DESCRIBED WITH REFERENCE TO CATEGORIES SUCH AS MASCULINE/FEMININE. FOR EXAMPLE, PEOPLE WHO ARE GENDER FLUID, OCCUPY MORE THAN ONE GENDER CATEGORY, DO NOT OCCUPY A GENDER CATEGORY, OR OCCUPY ANOTHER TYPE OF GENDER CATEGORY BEYOND THE BINARY MAY (THOUGH WILL NOT NECESSARILY) IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AS NON-BINARY

Sexual Orientation

THE WAY A PERSON MIGHT LABEL THEMSELVES, THEIR BEHAVIOUR REFERS TO THE KINDS OF SEXUAL ACTS IN WHICH THEY ENGAGE, AND THEIR ATTRACTION REFERS TO THE KINDS OF PEOPLE TO WHOM THEY ARE SEXUALLY ATTRACTED

LGBTIQ+ Lesbian

THE TERM IS USED TO DESCRIBE A PERSON IDENTIFYING AS A WOMAN WHO IS ROMANTICALLY AND/OR SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO OTHER WOMEN

LGBTIQ+ Gay

A PERSON IDENTIFYING AS A MAN WHO IS ROMANTICALLY AND/OR SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO OTHER MEN

LGBTIQ+ Bi-Sexual

A PERSON OF ANY GENDER WHO IS ROMANTICALLY AND/OR SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO PEOPLE OF MORE THAN ONE GENDER

LGBTIQ+ Transgender

PEOPLE WHOSE GENDER IDENTITY DOES NOT ALIGN WITH THE SEX THEY WERE ASSIGNED AT BIRTH

LGBTIQ+ Intersex

PEOPLE WHO ARE BORN WITH SEX CHARACTERISTICS, INCLUDING GENITALS, GONADS AND CHROMOSOME PATTERNS, THAT DO NOT FIT TYPICAL BINARY NOTIONS OF MALE AND FEMALE BODIES

LGBTIQ+ Queer

UMBRELLA TERM TO DESCRIBE INTERSEX, TRANSGENDER, AND GENDER DIVERSE PEOPLE, AS WELL AS PEOPLE OF DIVERSE SEXUAL ORIENTATIONS, ALL OF WHOM IDENTIFY AS PART OF THE 'QUEER COMMUNITY'

Cis-Gender

DESCRIPTION FOR A PERSON WHOSE GENDER IDENTITY, GENDER EXPRESSION, AND BIOLOGICAL SEX ALL ALIGN. OPPOSITE WOULD BE TRANS

Heterosexual

A PERSON PRIMARILY EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND/OR SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO MEMBERS OF THE 'OPPOSITE SEX'

Homosexual

A PERSON PRIMARILY EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND/OR SEXUALLY ATTRACTED TO MEMBERS OF THE SAME SEX/GENDER

Sexual Intercourse

PENETRATION OF THE VAGINA BY THE PENIS

Intercourse

DOES NOT INVOLVE PENETRATION OF THE VAGINA BY THE PENIS (SUCH AS ANAL OR ORAL INTERCOURSE)