Glossary
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[edit] Coming out
- v: Be made known; be disclosed or revealed; "The truth will out"
[edit] Gender
- n: a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in Indo-European languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
- Gender is the feeling of belonging to one sex or another. Regardless of genital arrangement, genotype, or upbringing, every person has a sense of self relating to gender and sex.
[edit] Genderqueer
- Genderqueer is an identity where one has the feeling of belonging to neither traditional views of male or female, or both simultaneously. One who is genderqueer may behave as either/or gender role, being both masculine and feminine. Gender-Neutral pronouns are sometimes preferred by those who identify as genderqueer.
[edit] Homosexual
- adj: sexually attracted to members of your own sex
- Traditionally, gay, lesbian, and bisexual people are considered homosexual.
[edit] Queer
- The fluid sexual identity, known as queer, is a disregard to tradition views that men and women should find love, or that gay men should be attracted only to men, and so on. Throwing out preconcieved ideas of sexuality, someone identified as queer may be attracted to a trait in another, regardless of their sex or gender.
[edit] Sex
- n: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus"
[edit] Sexuality
- Sexuality is both a personal identity as well as a set of traits one finds themselves attracted to in another person. As an identity, one might label themselves gay, bisexual, a lesbian, straight or queer. It also defines who one is, by outside views, by who they are attracted to.
[edit] Transgender
- Someone who is transgendered has psychological awareness they share feelings and traits with that of the sex they were not born in to.
[edit] Transsexual
- adj: overwhelmingly desirous of being, or completely identifying with, the opposite sex
- n: a person who has undergone a sex change operation
- n: a person whose sexual identification is entirely with the opposite sex
