| a | Acculturation: The process by which people adopt a different cultural system. |
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| c | Correlation coefficient (r): An index of the degree of association between two variables.
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| d | DSM: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual published by the American Psychiatric Association; handbook of mental disorders, including symptoms, prevalence, and diagnostic criteria. | |
| e | ENDA: the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would enforce equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals in the workplace. | |
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| g | Gender: ways that people act, interact, or feel about themselves, which are associated with boys/men and girls/women Gender identity: one’s sense of oneself as male, female, or transgender Gender identity disorder: a medical term for people who experience intense, persistent gender dysphoria |
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| h | Homosexuality: sexual attraction, desire, or behavior directed toward persons of one's own sex | |
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| p | Pathology: something abnormal; deviations from the normal that constitute disease or characterize a particular disease | |
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| s | Sex: biological status as male or female Sexual orientation: an enduring emotional, romantic, sexual or affectional attraction to another person Transgender: an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity or gender expression differs from that usually associated with their birth sex |
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| t | Transsexual: a term for transgender people who live or wish to live full time as members of the gender opposite to their birth sex | |
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