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Key Terms ● Sexual orientation: Describes a person’s emotional, physical, and/or romantic attraction to another person. ● Gender identity: A person’s deeply held internal sense of being male or female or somewhere else on or outside the gender spectrum. ● Gender Expression: Refers to all of a person’s external characteristics and behaviors — such as clothing, grooming, mannerisms, speech patterns and social interactions — that represent or express one’s gender identity to others. www. pointsourceyouth. org

Queer ● Any person in the LGBTQ community who chooses not to identify with a specific label (who feels outside of the social norms in regard to gender and sexuality) ● Can be a sexual orientation, gender identity, or both ● Not everyone embraces this term, so it should not be thoughtlessly used. People should be allowed to selfidentify. www. pointsourceyouth. org

Transgender & Non-Binary ● Transgender: An umbrella term to describe people whose gender expression is nonconforming or whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth. ● Sex assigned at birth: The classification people are given at birth, usually according to how their external sex anatomy appears compared to those typically-appearing. ● Non-binary: An umbrella term that refers to people who reject the gender binary (male vs. female). www. pointsourceyouth. org

Intersex ● An umbrella term describing people born with variations of internal and/or external sex anatomy. ● Resulting in bodies that can’t be classified as typically male or female. www. pointsourceyouth. org