Sex:
The classification of a person as male or female. At birth, infants are assigned a sex, usually based on the appearance of their external anatomy.
Intersex:
An umbrella term describing people born with reproductive or sexual anatomy and/or a chromosome pattern that can't be classified as typically male or female.
Gender:
Refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people.
Gender identity:
A person's internal, deeply held sense of being male, female, neither of these, both, or other gender(s)
Cisgender:
When a person’s gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth
Non-binary:
An umbrella term for all genders other than female/male or woman/man
Transgender:
An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.
Genderqueer:
An identity commonly used by people who do not identify or express their gender within the gender binary. Those who identify as genderqueer may identify as neither male nor female, may see themselves as outside of or in between the binary gender boxes, or may simply feel restricted by gender labels.
Gender non-conforming:
A term used to describe some people whose gender expression is different from conventional expectations of masculinity and femininity.
Gender fluid:
A gender-fluid person doesn’t confine themself to one gender, or even a few. Instead, they may fluctuate between presenting as feminine, masculine, neither, or both.
