Right to Gender Recognition: Identity, Privacy, and Legal Equality
The right to gender recognition concerns social and legal acknowledgment of a person’s gender, including names, records, identity documents, privacy, and equal treatment.
Sexual Minority Rights: Equality, Privacy, Safety, and Protection
Sexual minority rights protect people from unjust discrimination based on sexual orientation and support equality, privacy, healthcare, safety, relationships, and social participation.
Sexual Justice: Equality, Rights, Access, and Sexual Well-Being
Sexual justice examines fairness in sexual rights, autonomy, healthcare, consent, relationships, pleasure, privacy, and protection from discrimination or violence.
Sexual Citizenship: Rights, Recognition, Autonomy, and Equality
Sexual citizenship describes people’s rights, recognition, access, autonomy, and responsibilities in relation to sexuality, relationships, healthcare, privacy, and social participation.
Thin Ideal: Body Image, Beauty Standards, and Sexual Confidence
The thin ideal is a cultural beauty standard that presents thinness as especially attractive or desirable and can influence body image, confidence, eating, and sexuality.
Muscular Ideal: Body Image, Masculinity, and Sexual Attraction
The muscular ideal is a social preference for a lean, muscular body and can influence body image, masculinity, appearance anxiety, exercise, and sexual confidence.
Hypersexualization: Sexual Stereotypes, Objectification, and Consent
Hypersexualization is the excessive sexual framing of a person, group, body, or situation and can reinforce objectification, stereotypes, body pressure, and consent myths.
Appearance: Physical Looks, Body Image, Gender, and Sexuality
Appearance is the visible way a person looks and may include body features, clothing, grooming, movement, and presentation, while influencing body image and social perception.
Beauty: Appearance, Attraction, Culture, and Sexuality
Beauty is the quality of being aesthetically pleasing or attractive and is shaped by personal preference, culture, history, media, gender, and social expectations.
Beauty Standard: Appearance Ideals, Body Image, and Sexuality
A beauty standard is a socially shaped idea about which bodies or features are considered attractive and can influence body image, confidence, gender, and sexuality.