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English: [Adapted and modified from Trans 101 by Rae Larson and Glossary of Terms by Egales Canada Human Rights Trust]

A graphic of a person smiling with a giant avocado on their shoulders. There is a patch of grass by their feet with wildflowers and butterflies and a hummingbird around them. There are definitions of four key terms pointing to different parts of the person's body, including:

1. Gender identity: A person’s internal and individual experience of gender (man, woman, trans, queer, non-binary)

2. Sexual orientation (or attraction): A person’s potential for emotional, intellectual, spiritual, intimate, romantic, and/or sexual behaviour and sexual desire in other people (asexual, gay, pansexual, heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, two-spirit and more)

3. Gender expression: The way a person presents, performs and communicates gender within a social context (through bodily characteristics or behaviours such as clothing, speech, body language, hairstyle, voice and more)

4. Sex: The classification of a person as male, female or intersex based on biological characteristics, including chromosomes, hormones, external genitalia and reproductive organs.