LGBTQ Flashcards
What does LGBTQ stand for?
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer
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.
Pansexual
A term people often use to express fluid identities and orientations. Often used interchangeably with “LGBTQ
Queer
A term used to describe people who are in the process of exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Questioning
A term some prefer to use instead of lesbian, gay or bisexual to express attraction to and love of people of the same gender.
Same gender loving
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.
Gender non-confronting
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.
Genderqueer
an individual’s internal sense of who they are male, female, another gender, or no gender.
Gender identity
Women who form sexual and affectional relationships with other women. More common terms: “women who have sex with women”, “same gender loving.”
Lesbian
capacity for sexual feelings.
Sexuality
An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to other people. Consist of three components: Behavior, identity, and desire
Sexual orientation
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.
Gender expression
Clinically significant distress caused when a person’s assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify.
Gender dysmorphia
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.
Transgender
A person who is not LGBTQ but shows support for LGBTQ people and promotes equality in a variety of ways.
Ally
identifying and/or presenting as neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine.
Androgynous
The lack of a sexual attraction or desire for other people.
Asexual
prejudice, fear or hatred directed toward bisexual people.
Biphobia
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.
Bisexual
a term used to describe a person whose gender identity aligns with those typically associated with the sex assigned to them at birth.
Cisgender
describes an LGBTQ person who has not disclosed their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Closeted
The process in which a person first acknowledges, accepts, and appreciates their sexual orientation or gender identity and begins to share that with others.
Coming out
a person who is emotionally, romantically, or sexually attracted to members of the same gender
Gay
conveys a wider, more flexible range of gender identity and/or expression than typically associated with the binary gender system.
Gender expansive
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.
Gender Fluid
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.
Gender identity
___% of transgender black/African American women live with HIV
56
______ infections are more common in lesbians than heterosexual women.
Bacterial vaginosis
There is a ____% prevalence of HPV in women who have never had sex with men
19%
Some data demonstrates that lesbians have a greatest risk for ____
obesity
LGBT adults have higher _____ rates.
Smoking
Bisexual women were only ____% likely to get screening for mammograms than lesbians and hetero women making them at a higher risk for breast cancer
55
LGBT suffer from higher rates of: (4 items)
1- depression
2- anxiety
3- suicide attempts/completions
4- substance abuse disorders
Gender identity disorder was reframed as ______ ______ and it was removed from the ICD as a mental disorder
Gender Incongruence
What are some special considerations when assessing LGBT adolescents? (6 items)
high risk of: 1- depression 2- suicide 3- STDs 4- HIV 5- eating disorders 6- tobacco and substance abuse
What are some special considerations when assessing LGBT older women? (3 items)
high risk of:
1- health disparities
2- disability
3- mental distress
