LGBTQ Health Flashcards
1
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Sexual Orientation
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- Feelings and self-concept
- Enduring emotional, romantic, sexual, or affectional attraction to others of a particular sex
- Sexual preference: out of date
2
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Sexual identity
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- inner sense of oneself as sexual being
3
Q
Queer
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- Prideful and negative connotations depending on environment
4
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Gender identity
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- Innate and inescapable perception of one’s own gender, may or may not be consistent with their anatomical sex
5
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Transgendered
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- Strong sense of incongruity between their birth sex and gender identity
6
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Intersex
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- Pediatric surgical sex reassignment for ambiguous genitalia
7
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Heterosexist
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- Characteristics of an ideological system that denies, denigrates, and stigmatizes any non-heterosexual form of behavior, identity, relationship, or community