Glossary

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Woman: adult female human

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Man: adult male human

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Male: of or denoting the sex that produces small, typically motile gametes, especially spermatozoa, with which a female may be fertilized or inseminated to produce offspring.

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Female: of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes.

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Homosexual: sexually attracted to people of one's own sex.

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Heterosexual: sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.

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Bisexual: sexually attracted not exclusively to people of one particular sex; attracted to both men and women.

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Gay: male homosexual

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Lesbian: female homosexual

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Gender: Gender is defined as the socially constructed roles and behaviours that a society typically associates with males and females

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Sex: either of the two categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions

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Misogyny: dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.

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Homophobia: irrational dislike of or prejudice against homosexual people

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Autogynephilia (AGP): a male's propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought of himself as a female

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Gender Dysphoria: the mental condition of feeling one's emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one's biological sex.

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Rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD): children who suddenly—seemingly out of the blue—decided they identify strongly with the opposite sex.