"Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity."
The characteristics that a society or culture determines to be masculine or feminine.
Gender Identity: Refers to a person's internal sense of being male, female, or non-binary.
Sex: Refers to the biological characteristics that determine if someone is classified as male, female, or intersex.
Sexual Orientation: Refers to a person's emotional and romantic attraction to others.
Gender Expression: Refers to the way that a person presents their gender to the world through behavior, clothing, and other aspects of their appearance.
Gender Stereotypes: Refers to the widely shared beliefs about how men and women should behave based on their gender.
Binary Gender: Refers to the cultural assumption that there are only two genders, male and female.
Non-binary Gender: Refers to identities that do not fit within the binary of male and female.
Transgender: Refers to people whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth.
Cisgender: Refers to people whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.
Intersex: Refers to people who are born with biological sex characteristics that are not typically male or female.
Gender Dysphoria: Refers to the distress and discomfort experienced by some transgender people when their gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth.
Gender Confirming Surgery: Refers to the medical procedures used to help someone transition to their desired gender.
Pronouns: Refers to the words used to refer to someone in place of their name, such as he/him, she/her, or they/them.
LGBTQ+: Refers to the community of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and others who do not fit within the binary of male/female gender and heterosexual sexuality.
Gender-based Violence: Refers to violence that is committed against someone based on their gender.
Sexual objectification: Refers to the act of treating someone solely as an object that exists for another's sexual pleasure.
Misogyny: Refers to the hatred or contempt for women.
Patriarchy: Refers to the social system in which men hold primary power and women are systematically oppressed.
Toxic Masculinity: Refers to the negative traits and behaviors that are often associated with masculinity, such as aggression and dominance.
Intersectionality: Refers to the interconnectedness of all aspects of a person's identity, including their gender, race, class, and sexual orientation, and how these intersect to create different experiences of oppression and privilege.
Male: Traditionally associated with masculinity and male physical characteristics.
Female: Traditionally associated with femininity and female physical characteristics.
Transgender: Individuals who identify beyond or outside of the binary gender categories of male and female.
Genderqueer: Individuals who identify as neither fully male nor female or embrace aspects of both genders.
Non-binary: Individuals who reject the idea of a male-female gender binary and identify outside of that spectrum.
Intersex: Individuals born with sex characteristics that do not align with typical male or female physical traits.
Two-spirit: A term used by some Indigenous peoples to describe individuals with both male and female spirits/identities.
Androgynous: Individuals who have a blend of both male and female characteristics and express themselves in a gender-neutral or gender-bending way.
Agender: Individuals who do not identify with any gender whatsoever.
Demigender: Individuals who partially identify with a particular gender, but not entirely.
"Most cultures use a gender binary, in which gender is divided into two categories, and people are considered part of one or the other (boys/men and girls/women)"
"Those who are outside these groups may fall under the umbrella term non-binary."
"Some societies have specific genders besides 'man' and 'woman', such as the hijras of South Asia; these are often referred to as third genders."
"Most scholars agree that gender is a central characteristic for social organization."
"In the mid-20th century, a terminological distinction in modern English (known as the sex and gender distinction) between biological sex and gender began to develop."
"Psychology, sexology, and feminism contributed to the development of the sex and gender distinction."
"Feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender."
"Most contemporary social scientists in western countries, behavioral scientists and biologists, many legal systems and government bodies, and intergovernmental agencies such as the WHO make a distinction between gender and sex."
"The social sciences have a branch devoted to gender studies."
"Psychology, sociology, sexology, and neuroscience are interested in the subject."
"The social sciences sometimes approach gender as a social construct, and gender studies particularly do."
"Research in the natural sciences investigates whether biological differences in females and males influence the development of gender in humans."
"Biopsychosocial approaches to gender include biological, psychological, and social/cultural aspects."
"Before the mid-20th century, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories."
"Most scholars agree that gender is a central characteristic for social organization."
"Some societies have specific genders besides 'man' and 'woman', such as the hijras of South Asia; these are often referred to as third genders."
"Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity."
"Psychology, sociology, sexology, and neuroscience are interested in the subject."
"Feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender."