Gender Sensitivity and Laws on Women's and Children's Rights

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Socially constructed roles assigned by society to people based on their birth-assigned sex and what it considers appropriately masculine or feminine.

Gender

Refers to the different biological and physiological characteristics of males and females, such as reproductive organs, chromosomes, hormones, etc.

Sex

Set of societal norms dictating what types of behaviors are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for a person based on their actual sex or perceived sex or gender.

Gender role

Culturally defined set of roles, responsibilities, rights, entitlements, and obligations associated with being female or male, as well as the power relations between/among women and men, and boys and girls.

Gender norms

Behaviors, activities and attributes that are compatible with cultural expectations around masculinity and femininity.

Gender normative

The equitable representation of people of different genders, including cisgender and transgender men and women, as well as non-binary persons and others with diverse gender identities.

Gender diversity

A person's deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body and other gender expressions.

Gender identity

A person's enduring capacity for profound romantic, emotional, and/or physical feelings for or attraction to other people encompassing hetero-, homo-, bi-, pan- and asexuality, as well as a wide range of other expressions.

Sexual orientation

How a person expresses their gender, including behavior and outward appearance such as clothing, hair, makeup, body language, and voice as well as their chosen name and pronouns.

Gender expression

Person whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.

Cis/cisgender

Used by some people whose gender identity differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth; an umbrella term representing a variety of words that describe an internal sense of gender attributed to the individual by society.

Trans/transgender

Older term largely used in the Americas that is preferred by some whose gender identity differs from their assigned sex, often indicating those who have undergone medical or surgical modification.

Transsexual

Concepts common to many cultures referring to individuals who do not identify as men or women, or whose gender is not perceived to be male or female, and/or to individuals whose gender identity does not match their assigned sex.

Third gender/third sex

Adjective describing people whose gender identity falls outside the male-female binary, encompassing people with a specific gender identity other than man or woman, two or more genders, or no gender.

Non-binary

Adjective describing someone whose gender is not fixed over time.

Gender-fluid

In many languages, pronouns used to describe or talk about ourselves, someone, or other people; in English, third person pronouns indicate gender (he, she) or serve as a gender-neutral pronoun (they/their).

Personal pronouns

Person whose romantic, emotional and/or physical attraction is to people of the same gender.

Homosexual

Person whose romantic, emotional and/or physical attraction is to people of a different gender.

Heterosexual/straight

Woman whose enduring romantic, emotional, and/or physical attraction is to women.

Lesbian

Men whose enduring romantic, emotional, and/or physical attraction is to men; also, women who are attracted to other women.

Gay

Person who has the capacity for romantic, emotional, and/or physical attraction to people of more than one gender.

Bisexual

Person who has the capacity for romantic, emotional, and/or physical attraction to people of any gender.

Pansexual

Person who may experience romantic or emotional attraction, but generally does not experience sexual attraction; an umbrella term encompassing demisexual, greysexual, and other terms.

Asexual

A sexual orientation most often defined as only experiencing sexual attraction when an emotional connection or bond has formed with someone.

Demisexual

Or grey-asexual; being asexual while also able to experience, or have experienced previously, sexual attraction that occurs infrequently, at low intensity, or in an ambiguous way.

Greysexual

Or zedsexual; an umbrella term for people who are not asexual and regularly experience sexual attraction to others, whether or not they engage in sexual activity.

Allosexual

An umbrella term used by many people who feel they do not conform to a given society's economic, social, and political norms based on their sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression.

Queer

People who are born with sex characteristics (such as sexual anatomy, reproductive organs, hormonal patterns and/or chromosomal patterns) that do not fit typical binary notions of male or female bodies.

Intersex

Acronym for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, where the '+' encompasses other identities within the community.

LGBTQIA+

Acronym standing for Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, and Sex Characteristics.

SOGIESC

Behavior or appearance that is not in alignment with prevailing cultural expectations related to a particular gender.

Gender non-conforming

Process of changing one's external gender presentation to be more in line with one's gender identity.

Transition

Medical interventions that may be part of transition, also referred to as gender confirmation.

Gender-affirming treatment

In international human rights law, the awareness and recognition of the different needs, preferences, experiences, and perspectives of women, men and people of diverse gender identities, and the ability and willingness to address and eliminate barriers and biases.

Gender sensitivity

A strategic approach to policymaking that takes into account gender in promoting gender equality.

Gender mainstreaming