LGBTQ

Question 1

What does LGBTQ stand for?

Answer 1

lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer

Question 2

Describes someone who has the potential for emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to people of any gender though not necessarily simultaneously, in the same way or to the same degree.

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Pansexual

Question 3

A term people often use to express fluid identities and orientations. Often used interchangeably with “LGBTQ

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Queer

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A term used to describe people who are in the process of exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Questioning

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A term some prefer to use instead of lesbian, gay or bisexual to express attraction to and love of people of the same gender.

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Same gender loving

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A broad term referring to people who do not behave in a way that conforms to the traditional expectations of their gender, or whose gender expression does not fit neatly into a category.

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Gender non-confronting

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These people typically reject notions of static categories of gender and embrace a fluidity of gender identity and often, though not always, sexual orientation. People who identify as this may see themselves as being both male and female, neither male nor female or as falling completely outside these categories.

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Genderqueer

Question 8

an individual’s internal sense of who they are male, female, another gender, or no gender.

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Gender identity

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Women who form sexual and affectional relationships with other women. More common terms: “women who have sex with women”, “same gender loving.”

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Lesbian

Question 10

capacity for sexual feelings.

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Sexuality

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An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to other people. Consist of three components: Behavior, identity, and desire

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Sexual orientation

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External appearance of one’s gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut o voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine.

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Gender expression

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Clinically significant distress caused when a person’s assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify.

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Gender dysmorphia

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Individuals who do not conform to the traditional notion of gender in which one’s gender expression or desired expression is consistent with one’s birth sex.

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Transgender

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A person who is not LGBTQ but shows support for LGBTQ people and promotes equality in a variety of ways.

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Ally

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identifying and/or presenting as neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine.

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Androgynous

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The lack of a sexual attraction or desire for other people.

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Asexual

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prejudice, fear or hatred directed toward bisexual people.

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Biphobia

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a person emotionally, romantically, or sexually attracted to more than one sex, gender, or gender identity though not necessarily simultaneously in the same way or to the same degree.

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Bisexual

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a term used to describe a person whose gender identity aligns with those typically associated with the sex assigned to them at birth.

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Cisgender

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describes an LGBTQ person who has not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity.

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Closeted

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The process in which a person first acknowledges, accepts, and appreciates their sexual orientation or gender identity and begins to share that with others.

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Coming out

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a person who is emotionally, romantically, or sexually attracted to members of the same gender

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Gay

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conveys a wider, more flexible range of gender identity and/or expression than typically associated with the binary gender system.

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Gender expansive

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A person who does not identify with a single fixed gender; or relating to a person having or expressing a fluid or unfixed gender identity.

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Gender Fluid

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One’s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither- How individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One’s gender identity can be the same or different from their sex assigned at birth.

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Gender identity

Question 27

___% of transgender black/African American women live with HIV

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56

Question 28

______ infections are more common in lesbians than heterosexual women.

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Bacterial vaginosis

Question 29

There is a ____% prevalence of HPV in women who have never had sex with men

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19%

Question 30

Some data demonstrates that lesbians have a greatest risk for ____

Answer 30

obesity

Question 31

LGBT adults have higher _____ rates.

Answer 31

Smoking

Question 32

Bisexual women were only ____% likely to get screening for mammograms than lesbians and hetero women making them at a higher risk for breast cancer

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55

Question 33

LGBT suffer from higher rates of: (4 items)

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1- depression
2- anxiety
3- suicide attempts/completions
4- substance abuse disorders

Question 34

Gender identity disorder was reframed as ______ ______ and it was removed from the ICD as a mental disorder

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Gender Incongruence

Question 35

What are some special considerations when assessing LGBT adolescents? (6 items)

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high risk of:
1- depression
2- suicide
3- STDs
4- HIV
5- eating disorders
6- tobacco and substance abuse

Question 36

What are some special considerations when assessing LGBT older women? (3 items)

Answer 36

high risk of:
1- health disparities
2- disability
3- mental distress