Internalized Homophobia: Stigma, Shame, and Sexual Self-Acceptance
Internalized homophobia occurs when sexual-minority people absorb negative beliefs about same-sex attraction and apply those beliefs to themselves or others.
Internalized Transphobia: Stigma, Shame, and Gender Self-Acceptance
Internalized transphobia occurs when transgender or gender-diverse people absorb negative anti-trans beliefs and apply them to themselves or other trans people.
Minority Stress: Stigma, Discrimination, Identity, and Well-Being
Minority stress is the added stress caused by stigma, discrimination, rejection, concealment pressure, and unequal treatment experienced by marginalized groups.
Virginity Testing: Myths, Consent, and Bodily Integrity
Virginity testing is an unreliable practice that attempts to determine sexual history through genital examination, despite no physical test being able to prove virginity.
Corrective Rape: Sexual Violence Motivated by Anti-LGBTQ+ Prejudice
Corrective rape is sexual violence committed with the claimed purpose of changing, punishing, or suppressing someone’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Bodily Autonomy Violation: Consent, Control, and Bodily Rights
A bodily autonomy violation occurs when a person’s control over their own body is overridden through force, coercion, deception, unwanted contact, or nonconsensual treatment.
Reproductive Oppression: Control, Inequality, and Reproductive Freedom
Reproductive oppression is systemic control or restriction of reproductive choices through coercion, discrimination, unequal healthcare, social power, or institutional barriers.
Right to Sexual Health: Access, Consent, Equality, and Care
The right to sexual health supports fair access to information, healthcare, consent, privacy, prevention, treatment, and sexual well-being without discrimination.
Right to Information: Access, Consent, and Sexual Health Knowledge
The right to information supports access to accurate, understandable knowledge needed for informed choices about sexuality, healthcare, reproduction, consent, and personal rights.
Right to Choose a Partner: Consent, Autonomy, and Relationship Freedom
The right to choose a partner protects voluntary decisions about dating, marriage, and intimate relationships while rejecting coercion, forced marriage, and discrimination.