Definitions

Unwanted, exploitative or abusive conduct against disabled people that violates their dignity and security or creates intimidating or offensive environments that often results in psychological privileges for people without disabilities and can have disadvantages for people with disabilities.

Reference: Lindsay et al. 2022; Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation
Article DOI: 10.1007/s10926-022-10049-4

Of, relating to, or being a person who has an internal sense of being neither male nor female nor some combination of male and female : of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity is genderless or neutral.

Reference: Merriam Webster

Ageism refers to the stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination towards others or oneself based on age.

Reference: WHO ,WHO stats

Spoken or physical behavior that is threatening or involves harm to someone or something.

Reference: Cambridge Dictionary

One that is associated with another as a helper; a person or group that provides assistance and support in an ongoing effort, activity or struggle

Reference: Merriam-Webster Dictionary

A behavior that interferes with effective clinical performance and can include: inappropriate anger or resentment, inappropriate words or actions directed toward another person, and inappropriate response to needs and requests of others that is often intended to harm to intimidate others.

Reference: Reynolds 2012; Journal of Medical Regulation

Article DOI: 10.30770/2572-1852-98.1.8

Of, relating to, or being a person whose gender identity corresponds with the sex the person had or was identified as having at birth.

Reference: Merriam Webster

Conventionally, refers to the “social, psychological, and emotional traits, attitudes, norms and behaviors, often influenced by society’s expectations, that classify someone as man, woman, both, or neither.

Reference: AMA

refers to psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity.

Reference: AMA

Refers to how a person publicly expresses or presents their gender. This can include behavior and outward appearance such as dress, hair, make-up, body language and voice. A person’s chosen name and pronoun are also common ways of expressing gender. Others perceive a person’s gender through these attributes.

Reference: OHRC

A process a person may take to bring themselves and/or their bodies into alignment with their gender identity. It may include but not necessarily limited to: telling one’s friends, family and co-workers; changing one’s name and pronouns; updating legal documents; medical interventions such as hormone therapy; or surgical intervention, often called gender confirmation surgery.

Reference: APA

Unwelcome conduct that is based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, or genetic information (including family medical history) that becomes unlawful where enduring the offensive conduct becomes a condition of continued employment, or the conduct is severe or pervasive enough to create a work environment that a reasonable person would consider intimidating, hostile, or abusive

Reference: EEOC

The interconnected nature of social categorizations such as race, class, and gender, as they relate to creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Reference: CRJ

How people conceptualize themselves as gendered beings, including one’s innate and personal experience of gender. This may or may not align with one’s gender expression or biological sex.

Reference: AMA