UNDERSTANDING IDENTITIES: GENDER GENDER SEXUAL ROMANTIC SEX IDENTITY EXPRESSION IDENTITY IDENTITY Assigned or Designated Female at Birth Cisgender woman Feminine Lesbian Homoromantic Assigned or Designated Male at Birth Cisgender man Masculine Gay Heteroromantic Female Transgender Transgender Bisexual Biromantic Male Trans woman Trans-feminine Queer Panromantic Intersex Trans-feminine Trans-masculine Asexual Androromantic Transsexual M2F/MTF (Male to Female) Gender conforming Gray-asexual Gynoromantic F2M/FTM (Female to Male) Trans man Gender normative Gray-sexual Polyromantic M2F/MTF (Male to Female) Trans-masculine Gender non-conforming Demisexual Omniromantic or _________ F2M/FTM (Female to Male) Non-Binary Non-monosexual Aromantic Non-Binary Gender variant Fluid Gray-romantic Gender variant Genderqueer Pansexual Demiromantic Genderqueer Genderfluid Omnisexual Queerplatonic Genderfluid Gender neutral Polysexual Men who like men IDENTITIES Agender Androgynous Heterosexual Women who like women Neutrois Bigender Homosexual Lesbian Gender neutral Butch Men who have Sex w/Men (MSM) Gay Gender Bender Femme Women who have Sex w/Women (WSW) Queer Gender Blender or _________ or _________ Fluid Two Spirit or _________ or _________ ...your biological internal and ...your psychological ...how you act, talk, and ...your sense of yourself (and how ...your sense of yourself external sex characteristics, sense of yourself (and present yourself to you define yourself) related to who (and how you define including hormones, how you define your communicate or [or if] you are sexually attracted to. yourself) related to who chromosomes, physical body sex self) related to your express your gender to In part, someone’s sexual identity [or if] you are characteristics, etc. gender, which may or the world (clothing, is often in relation to or connected affectionately, may not correspond to grooming, hairstyle, in some way to their own sense of emotionally, your sex. accessorizing, gender. Also, someone’s sexual intellectually, mannerisms, etc….), behavior may or may not reflect romantically, and/or which may or may not their sexual identity. intimately attracted to. be consistent with CATEGORY socially prescribed DEFINITION OF gender roles, and may or may not reflect your gender identity. Prefix / root words: Trans: across or beyond or change, Cis: on the same side or aligned, A: not or without, Poly: many, Pan: all, Omni: all, Demi: half or at times, Mono: single or one, Bi: two, Andro: human or male, Gyno: female, Homo: same, Hetero: other or different Pronouns (singular, third person): He, him, his; She, her, hers; They, them, theirs; using someone’s name and no pronouns; Ze, hir, hirs; Zie, zir, zirs; Per, per, pers; Ey, em, eirs Prepared by R. Ellen Semran, UNH Safe Zones Program, 2014. .