Please note that the definitions belong to the community and might change over time.
A term used to describe a person who experiences limited to no sexual attraction.
A term used to describe a person who is emotionally, romantically, and/or sexually attracted to more than one gender. Distinct from pansexual, which includes emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attraction to people regardless of gender.
A person whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth (i.e., who are not members of gender minorities), who are exclusively attracted to another gender, and who are endosex.
Someone who was assigned male at birth and identifies and lives as a man.
Someone who was assigned female at birth and identifies and lives as a woman.
When a person first tells someone about their sexual orientation, gender identity, or intersex status.
A term used to describe persons whose sex characteristics fit normative medical and social ideas for female or male bodies.
A man who is emotionally, romantically, and/or sexually attracted to other men.
A person’s internal sense of their own gender.
An umbrella category used to describe people who choose ‘other’ as the category for their gender identity. In this category, participants reported, for instance, identifying as agender, genderfluid, gender questioning, genderqueer, or as not identifying with any gender.
People with a minority gender identity such as trans or nonbinary people.
A term used to describe a person who has an exclusively emotional, romantic and/or sexual orientation towards someone of a different gender.
A person who is emotionally, romantically, and/or sexually attracted to members of the same gender.
A person with sex characteristics (hormones, chromosomes, and external/internal reproductive organs) that differ from those typically expected of male and female bodies.
A term used to describe adoption by two partners.
A woman who is emotionally, romantically, and/or sexually attracted to other women.
An abbreviation used to refer to all people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, queer, or as having any other minority sexual orientation or gender identity.
Used in our reports to refer to anyone not identifying as heterosexual. This includes people identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, queer, etc.
An umbrella term used to describe gender identities where the individual does not identify exclusively as a man or a woman. There are many categories included within this, such as agender, genderqueer, and genderfluid. Some nonbinary people may identify as trans, others may not.
A term used to describe a person who is emotionally, romantically, and/or sexually attracted to people regardless of gender.
A term used mainly by people to describe their minority sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or intersex status.
The process of exploring your own sexual orientation and/or gender identity.
Describes who a person is attracted to in a romantic way. It can be distinct from a person’s sexual attraction. For example, a person could be romantically attracted to a man but have no sexual attraction to him.
A term used to describe the legal union between two people of the same gender.
People with a minority sexual orientation such as homosexual (gay, lesbian), bisexual, or pansexual people.
Describes who a person is emotionally, romantically, or sexually attracted to. It is common for sources to describe sexual orientation as including components of sexual, emotional, and romantic attractions. Yet, these components can also be differentiated.
An umbrella category used to describe people who choose ‘other’ as the category for their sexual orientation. In this category, participants mentioned, for instance, identifying as demisexual, fluid, polysexual, heteroflexible, homoflexible, queer, questioning, as well as not liking categories.
People who have a gender identity that is different to the gender assigned at birth. Nonbinary people may or may not consider themselves to be trans.
Someone who was assigned female at birth but identifies as a man.
Someone who was assigned male at birth but identifies as a woman.