Lgbtq definitions
Glossary of Terms
Many Americans refrain from talking about sexual orientation and gender identity or verbalization because it feels taboo, or because they’re terrified of saying the erroneous thing.
This glossary was written to help give people the words and meanings to help make conversations easier and more content. LGBTQ+ people use a variety of terms to identify themselves, not all of which are included in this glossary. Always listen for and respect a person’s self identified terminology.
Ally | A word used to describe someone who is actively supportive of LGBTQ+ people. It encompasses straight and cisgender allies, as well as those within the Gay community who support each other (e.g., a sapphic who is an ally to the bisexual community).
Asexual | Often called “ace” for short, asexual refers to a complete or partial lack of sexual attraction or lack of interest in sexual exercise with others. Asexuality exists on a spectrum, and asexual people may exposure no, little or conditional sexual attraction.
Biphobia | The fear and hatred of, or discomfort with, people who love and are sexually attracted to more than one gender.
Bisexual | A person emotion
Defining LGBTQ+ Words for Elementary School Students
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When children ask questions about Gay words, it is often best to offer easy and direct answers. You might choose to answer a student’s question with another question to figure out what they are really asking -- is it about name-calling, a classmate’s two dads or something they saw on the internet. Listening first helps you respond.
Here are a few items to hold in mind when defining terms for children:
- Use examples to help children perceive definitions.
- Questions about LGBTQ+ words can provide teachable moments on topics like awareness difference and treating people with respect.
- If a student uses an LGBTQ+ term in a derogatory way, request them if they realize what it means. If they don’t, give a short definition and illustrate how using an culture as a slur is mean and emphasize that the word is not a bad word.
The obeying list can serve as a starting place for educators to respond to questions about LGBTQ+ words. These suggested definitions can help to ensure that you feel confident in your own knowledge and ability to communicate these ideas to stud
Glossary of Terms: LGBTQ
Definitions were drafted in collaboration with other U.S.-based LGBTQ group organizations and leaders. Spot acknowledgements section.
Additional terms and definitions about gender identity and gender phrase, transgender people, and nonbinary people are available in the Transgender Glossary.
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*NOTE: Ask people what terms they exploit to describe their sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression before assigning them a label. Outside of acronyms, these terms should only be capitalized when used at the beginning of a sentence.
LGBTQ
Acronym for female homosexual, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. The Q generally stands for queer when LGBTQ organizations, leaders, and media use the acronym. In settings offering aid for youth, it can also stand for questioning. LGBT and LGBTQ+ are also used, with the + added in recognition of all non-straight, non-cisgender identities. (See Transgender Glossary ) Both are acceptable, as are other versions of this acronym. The term &#;gay community&#; should be avoided, as it does not accurately express the div
Sexual Orientation: a person’s passionate, physical, and/or sexual attraction and often the phrase of that attraction. Sexual orientation is not necessarily the same as sexual behavior.
Sexual identity: The way a person views and identifies their sexual orientation.
Gender identity: A person’s sense of organism masculine, feminine, in-between or androgynous. It is significant to recognize that this is independent from a person’s biological sex.
Gender identity vs. sexual orientation: Gender identity is separate from sexual orientation. Gender identity, the sense that one is a male child or a girl, is usually manifested by the age of 3 or 4 years. Sexual orientation, the sense of which gender one is emotionally, physically and/or sexually attracted to, does not clear itself until much later in life, usually after puberty and often not until full adulthood.
Gender expression: The way in which an individual externally represents their gender culture and presents it to the world.
Heterosexual:a person who is emotionally, physically, and/or sexually attracted or committed to members of the other sex.
Homosexual: A person who is emotionally, physical
LGBTQ Definitions
Ally | A person who is not LGBTQ but shows support for LGBTQ people and promotes equality in a variety of ways.
Androgynous | Identifying and/or presenting as neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine.
Androsexual | A person who is emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to masculinity or people with masculine traits regardless of their own, or the other person's gender identity.
Asexual | The lack of a sexual attraction or desire for other people.
Bisexual | A person emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to more than one sex, gender or gender identity though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree.
Cisgender | A term used to depict a person whose gender identity aligns with those typically associated with the sex assigned to them at birth.
Gay | A person who is emotionally, romantically or sexually attracted to members of the matching gender.
Gender dysphoria | Clinically significant distress caused when a person’s assigned birth gender is not the similar as the one with which they identify. According to the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental