Before delving into the toolkit, let’s familiarize ourselves with some key terms:

• Gender Identity: Innate identification as a man, woman, neither, both, or another gender, which may or may not align with the sex assigned at birth.

• Gender Expression: Manner in which a person communicates their gender to the world through dress, grooming, speech, etc.

• Cisgender: Person whose gender identity aligns with the sex assigned at birth.

• Transgender: Person whose gender identity differs from the sex assigned at birth.

• Gender Expansive: Term encompassing individuals whose gender identity extends beyond traditional definitions of male and female.

• Intersex: Individual whose sexual anatomy or chromosomes do not align with traditional markers of “female” or “male”.

• Two-Spirit: Concept in Indigenous communities acknowledging individuals with both male and female spirits.

• Sexual Identity/Sexual Orientation: Description of an individual’s emotional and/or physical attraction to others.

• Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Queer: Terms describing various sexual orientations.