"Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural, and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity."
The socially constructed categories used to classify individuals or groups based on biological sex or gender identity, and the social, cultural, and political implications of these categories.
Sex and gender: The difference between biological sex and socially constructed gender.
Socialization: How gender roles are learned through socialization and cultural norms.
The social construction of sexuality: How sexual identities are shaped by societal expectations and cultural norms.
Stereotypes: The negative consequences of stereotyping and how it contributes to social inequality.
Intersectionality: How different aspects of identity (i.e. race, class, sexuality, gender) intersect and affect an individual’s experiences.
The history of gender and sexuality: How societal views on gender and sexuality have evolved over time.
Feminism: An ideology centered on achieving gender equality and the empowerment of women.
LGBTQ+ community: The experiences and struggles of those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other non-heterosexual or non-cisgender identities.
Gender identity: How gender identity is shaped by culture and can differ from biological sex.
Gender expression: The ways in which individuals express their gender identity through clothing, mannerisms, etc.
Sexuality and sexual orientation: The various forms of sexuality and sexual orientations (heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, etc.), and how they have been viewed differently in different cultures and periods of history.
Sexual practices: The different forms of sexual practices and how they have been viewed differently in different cultures and periods of history.
Masculinity and femininity: How cultural norms dictate what is considered masculine or feminine behavior.
Power dynamics: How gender and sexuality are intertwined with power structures in society.
Discrimination: The negative effects of discrimination based on gender or sexuality, and the mechanisms used to combat it.
Male: A person who identifies as male and may have been assigned male at birth.
Female: A person who identifies as female and may have been assigned female at birth.
Transgender: A person who identifies as a gender different from the one assigned to them at birth.
Nonbinary: A person who identifies as neither exclusively male nor exclusively female or as something in between or beyond the binary genders.
Genderqueer: A person who identifies as queer, either as fluid between genders or having a nonbinary gender identity.
Bigender: A person who identifies as having two distinct gender identities or expressions.
Agender: A person who identifies as having no gender or being without a gender identity.
Demigender: A person who identifies as partially one gender and partially another gender or as partially a gender and partially agender.
Two-Spirit: An Indigenous term for a person who identifies as both male and female, or a third gender.
Intersex: A person who is born with physical sex characteristics that do not clearly fit into typical male or female categories.
Heterosexual: A person who is attracted to people of a different gender.
Homosexual: A person who is attracted to people of the same gender.
Bisexual: A person who is attracted to people of more than one gender.
Pansexual: A person who is attracted to people regardless of their gender identity or expression.
Asexual: A person who does not experience sexual attraction to others.
Demisexual: A person who experiences sexual attraction only after forming an emotional connection with someone.
Greysexual: A person who experiences sexual attraction only occasionally or under particular circumstances.
Queer: An umbrella term used to describe non-heterosexual and non-cisgender individuals.
Polysexual: A person who is attracted to people of multiple genders but not necessarily all genders.
Skoliosexual: A person who is attracted to people with non-binary gender identities or those who do not conform to the gender binary.
"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."