European Parliament, The rights of LGBTI people in the European Union
Glossary
Bisexual: describes an individual who is physically, romantically and/or emotionally attracted to both men and women.
Discrimination: the less favourable treatment of one person or group than another on various grounds (direct discrimination), or the situation where an apparently neutral provision is liable to disadvantage a group of persons in comparison to others (indirect discrimination).
Gay: describes a man whose enduring physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction is to other men, although the term can be used to describe both gay men and lesbians.
Gender identity: each person's deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body.
Hate speech: public expressions that spread, incite, promote or justify hatred founded on intolerance.
Homophobia: the irrational fear of and aversion to homosexuality and LGB people based on prejudice.
Intersex: covers bodily variations in regard to culturally established standards of maleness and femaleness, including variations at the level of chromosomes, gonads and genitals.
Interphobia or intersexphobia: irrational fear of and aversion to intersex people based on prejudice.
Lesbian: describes a woman whose enduring physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction is to other women.
LGBTI: describes a diverse group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people who do not conform to conventional or traditional notions of male and female gender roles. LGBTI people are also sometimes referred to as 'sexual, gender and bodily minorities'. The acronym is sometimes extended to cover queer people explicitly (LGBTIQ) or other sub-groups (LGBTI+).
Sexual orientation: each person's capacity for profound emotional, affectional and sexual attraction to, and intimate and sexual relations with, individuals of a different gender or the same gender or more than one gender.
Transgender: describes people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth and those people who wish to portray their gender identity in a different way to the gender assigned at birth. This includes, among many others, transgender persons who are between male and female, transsexuals and transvestites.
Transphobia: the irrational fear of and aversion to trans people based on prejudice.
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