Glossary
Gender identity: Refers to a person’s internal, deeply felt sense of being male,
female, or something other or in-between.
Gender expression: Refers to the external characteristics and behaviors which
societies define as “masculine” or “feminine”—including such attributes as dress,
appearance, mannerisms, speech patterns and social behavior.
LGBT: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
Men who have sex with men (MSM): Men who engage in sexual behavior
with other men, but do not necessarily identify as “gay”, “homosexual”, or “bisexual”.
Sex work: The commercial exchange of sexual services between consenting adults.
Sexual orientation: A person’s sexual and emotional attraction to members of the
same gender, the opposite gender, or both genders.
Transgender: Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose
gender identity, one’s inner sense of being male or female, differs from their assigned or
presumed sex at birth.
Transgender women: People who are born male but identify themselves as
female.
Transgender men: People who are born female but identify themselves as male.
Transsexual: A person who seeks to undergo or has undergone bodily modification
such as sex reassignment surgery, so that their physical sex corresponds to their felt
gender identity.
Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS)/ Gender affirming surgery:
Surgical interventions to change one’s body so as to resemble a body of the opposite sex
as closely as possible.
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