• Gender Stereotypes

    Gender stereotypes are the patterns or mental templates for what we expect members of each sex to be. For instance, the stereotype for males frequently includes being tall, muscular, hirsute, solitary, and impassive. For females it might include being small, weak, social, sensitive, and emotional.

  • Gender-neutral

    A term used to refer to nondiscriminatory language. When discussing relationships, terms such as "spouse" and "partner" should be used as gender-neutral alternatives to the gender-specific words "husband," "wife", "boyfriend" and "girlfriend".

  • Genderfluid

    Being fluig in motion between two or more genders; shifting naturally in gender identity and/or gender expression/presentation. May be a gender identity itself. Refers to the fluidity of identity.

  • Harassment

    Harassment is unwanted conduct on the grounds of race, gender, sexual orientation etc. which has the purpose or effect of either violating the claimant's dignity, or creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.

  • Hate Crime

    A hate crime is a criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.

  • Hate Incident

    A hate incidient is any non-crime incident which is perceived by the victim or any other person, to be motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.

  • Hate Speech

    Hate speech is a communication that carries no meaning other than the expression of hatred for some group, especially in circumstances in which the communication is likely to provoke violence. It is an incitement to hatred primarily against a group of persons defined in terms of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and the like. Hate speech can be any form of expression regarded as offensive to racial, ethnic and religious groups and other discrete minorities or to women.

  • Heterosexual

    A person who falls in love with and/or is sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.

  • Homophobia

    The fear and hatred of or discomfort with people who love and are sexually attracted to members of the same sex.

  • Homosexual

    Outdated clinical term considered derogatory and offensive by many gay people. Gay and/or lesbian accurately describe people who are attracted to members of the same sex.

  • Intergender

    A person who is intergender feels that he/she stands between or beyond the traditional sex categories.

  • Internalized Homophobia

    Self-identification of societal stereotypes by a LGBT person, causing them to dislike and resent their sexual orientation or gender identity.