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Glossary of terms for sexual and gender minority health

Cisgender	People whose gender identity is aligned with traditional expectations based on their sex assigned at birth, such as a female-identified person who was assigned female sex at birth.
Gender identity	A person’s sense of being a boy/man, a girl/woman, a combination of boy/man and girl/woman, having no gender at all, or something else.
Gender minority	A broad group of people who experience an incongruence between their gender identity and what is traditionally expected based on their sex assigned at birth. Can include gender identities such as transgender and gender non-binary persons.
Gender non-binary	Used by some people who identify as either a combination of girl/woman and boy/man, as having no gender, or as something else.
Heterosexual/straight	A person who is attracted to people of the other binary gender to themselves. Cisgender and transgender individuals can be heterosexual/straight.
Sex	Biological sex characteristics (chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones and/or genitals). Can include male, female, intersex. Often used interchangeably with ‘sex assigned at birth’.
Sex assigned at birth	Based on phenotypic presentation of an infant and categorized as male or female; different from gender identity.
Sexual minority	A broad group of people who have a sexual orientation that is anything other than heterosexual/straight. Can include sexual orientations such as gay, bisexual, lesbian or something else.
Sexual orientation	A person’s physical, emotional and romantic attachments in relation to gender. Separate from gender identity. Everyone has a sexual orientation.