Spark Common Terms & Concepts: LGBTQ+ Youth
LBGTQ+ Terms Matching Activity On this page are seven terms and definitions about sex assigned at birth and gender. Match the terms on this page to their corresponding definitions on this page.
1. One’s internal sense of being male, female, Sex Assigned at neither of these, both, or other gender(s). Birth
2. How one presents their gender including Intersex clothing, hairstyle, voice, and more.
Gender Identity 3. The assignment and classification of people as male, female, or intersex. It is often based on physical anatomy at birth and/or chromosomes.
4. This term refers to someone who does not Transgender identify or express their gender within the gender binary (man or woman). They may instead identify both as man and woman, as neither man nor woman, or as falling in between or outside these categories. They may also simply feel restricted by gender labels.
5. An umbrella term for people whose gender Cisgender identity differs from the sex they were assigned
at birth.
6. People whose gender identity is the same as Gender Expression the sex they were assigned at birth.
Non-binary 7. Describing a person with a less common combination of hormones, chromosomes, and anatomy that are used to assign sex at birth.
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Spark Common Terms & Concepts: LGBTQ+ Youth
On this page there are seven terms and definitions about sexual orientation. Match the terms on this page to their corresponding definitions on this page.
8. This term refers to someone who Lesbian experiences no sexual attraction to others.
9. This term refers to someone who is attracted Attractionality to more than one gender.
10. This term refers to someone who is Straight or attracted to members of the same gender and Heterosexual often refers to a man who is attracted to other men.
11. This term refers to a woman who is Gay attracted to other women.
Asexual 12. This term is used by some people who identify as belonging to the LGBTQ+ community. This word is still sometimes used as a hateful slur, so although it has been reclaimed by many, be careful with its use.
13. This term refers to the many ways a person Bisexual can be attracted to someone, including emotional, physical, social, intellectual, and spiritual attraction.
14. This term refers to someone who is Queer primarily attracted to people who are not their same gender.
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