In Health / Junior High School | 2025-06-22

Gender and Sex Term Tease: Cracking the Code ACROSS [3] Refers to individuals who are attracted to people regardless of their gender identity or biological sex. [4] How someone outwardly presents their gender through behavior, appearance, and other characteristics. [7] Individuals who are romantically or sexually attracted to people of the opposite gender. [9] Individual's internal sense of their gender, whether male, female, both, neither, or somewhere else on the gender spectrum. [10] Term used to describe individuals who are romantically or sexually attracted to people of the same gender. DOWN [1] Refers to individuals whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. This may include individuals who identify as male, female, both, neither, or another gender altogether. They may undergo social, legal, or medical transition to align their gender expression with their gender identity. [2] Refers to a woman who is romantically or sexually attracted to other women. [5] Refers to an individual's enduring pattern of romantic, emotional, or sexual attraction to others, based on their gender or genders. It can include attractions to the same gender (homosexuality), the opposite gender (heterosexuality), or multiple genders (bisexuality, pansexuality), among others. [6] Refers to a sexual orientation where individuals are attracted to both men and women, forming relationships with people of any gender. [8] umbrella term used to describe individuals who do not identify as exclusively heterosexual or exclusively homosexual. It can encompass a wide range of sexual orientations and gender identities that fall outside of societal norms.​

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