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Appendix C: Glossary
Pages 317-320

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... Bisexual -- One whose sexual or romantic attractions and behaviors are directed at members of both sexes to a significant degree. Body mass index -- A statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate whether a person is underweight or overweight.
From page 318...
... Heterosexual -- Refers to individuals who identify as "heterosexual" or "straight" or whose sexual or romantic attractions and behaviors focus exclusively or mainly on members of the other sex or gender identity. Homophobia -- A term used broadly to refer to various manifestations of sexual stigma, sexual prejudice, and self-stigma based on one's homo sexual or bisexual orientation.
From page 319...
... Stigma -- The inferior status, negative regard, and relative powerlessness that society collectively assigns to individuals and groups that are associ ated with various conditions, statuses, and attributes. Transgender -- Refers to individuals who cross or transcend culturally de fined categories of gender (Bockting, 1999)
From page 320...
... conceptions of the cosmos and the restoration of indigenous taxonomies. In Two-spirit people: Native American gender identity, sexuality, and spirituality, edited by S.E.


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