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LGBTQ: An acronym for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer." <br />Nationality: The status of belonging to a particular nation by origin, birth, or naturalization; <br />people having common origins or traditions and often constituting a nation; existence as a <br />politically autonomous entity; national independence. <br />Non -binary: An adjective describing a person who does not identify exclusively as a man or a <br />woman. Non -binary people may identify as being both a man and a woman, somewhere in <br />between, or as falling completely outside these categories. <br />Preferred pronouns: The terms a person has decided to align best with their gender identity and <br />expression of self; a person's preferred pronouns should be used when referring to them. <br />Queer: A term people often use to express a spectrum of identities and orientations that are <br />counterto the mainstream. <br />Race: The term race refers to the concept of dividing people into populations or groups based <br />on various sets of physical characteristics (which usually resultfrom genetic ancestry). Races are <br />assumed to be distinguished by skin color, facial type, etc. <br />Same -gender loving: A term some prefer to use instead of lesbian, gay or bisexual to express <br />attraction to and love of people of the same gender. <br />Sex: The biological categories of "male" and "female" and does not change across cultures or <br />over time. Intersex is a term to describe people who have sexual characteristics related to both <br />males and females. ' <br />Sexual orientation: An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual <br />attraction to other people. Note: an individual's sexual orientation is independent of their <br />gender identity. <br />STI/D (Sexually Transmitted infections/Diseases): An infection transmitted through sexual <br />contact, caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites. <br />Transgender: An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or expression is different <br />from cultural expectations based on the sexthey were assigned at birth. Being transgenderdoes <br />not imply any specific sexual orientation. Therefore, transgender people may identify as <br />straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc. <br />Transitioning: A series of processes that some transgender people may undergo in order to live <br />more fully as their true gender. This typically includes social transition, such as changing name <br />and pronouns, medical transition, which may include hormone therapy or gender affirming <br />surgeries, and legal transition, which may include changing legal name and sex on government <br />identity documents. <br />26 <br />ua <br />