Gender Diversity

Biological (anatomical) differences between male, femal, and intersex.

• Gender

• Sex

• Gender Identity

• Sexual orientation

The relationship between our physical bodies, how we view ourselves, and how we express ourselves to the world, usually influenced by culture and societal expectations.

• Gender Identity

• Sex

• Gender

• Agender

A label given at birth based on genitalia, chromosomes, and hormones. Usually male and female.

• Gender expression

• Non binary

• Sex assigned at birth/Assigned sex

• Two spirit

People who are born with both male and female biological characteristics, though this may not be obvious at birth.

• Gender Identity

• Intersex

• Nonbinary

• Sexual Orientation

The idea that male and female are the only two genders that exist and the belief that every person is either male or female.

• Gender Binary

• Agender

• Gender Identity

• Sexual Orientation

How an individual personally identifies, based on whether their gender identity aligns with their sex assigned at birth.

• Gender

• Two spirit

• Gender Identity

• Agender

A person whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.

• Agender

• Cisgender/Cis

• Sexual Orientation

• Transgender

A person whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth.

• nonbinary

• Sexual Orientation

• Transgender/Trans

• Two spirit

A person with no, or very little, connection to the traditional system of gender. A person who sees themselves existing without gender.

• Gender fluid

• Agender

• Bisexual

• Pansexual/Pan

A person whose gender identity is not exclusively masculine or feminine. People who identify this way may express combinations of masculinity and femininity or neither.

• Asexual

• Nonbinary

• Gender Fluid

• Two spirit