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.
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.
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.
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.
Appearance Anxiety: Body Image, Self-Consciousness, and Sexual Confidence
Appearance anxiety is persistent worry about how one looks or how others may judge one’s appearance, and it can affect body image, confidence, intimacy, and daily life.
Muscle Dysmorphia: Muscularity, Body Image, and Sexual Confidence
Muscle dysmorphia is an excessive preoccupation with being insufficiently muscular or lean, often affecting exercise, body image, confidence, health, and relationships.
Positive Embodiment: Body Connection, Autonomy, and Sexual Well-Being
Positive embodiment is a respectful, connected way of experiencing the body through awareness, autonomy, sensation, comfort, identity, and bodily trust.
Body Neutrality: Reducing Appearance Pressure and Building Respect
Body neutrality reduces the pressure to judge the body by appearance and instead emphasizes respect, comfort, function, sensation, and lived bodily experience.
Body Acceptance: Self-Respect, Body Image, and Sexual Confidence
Body acceptance means respecting and living with one’s body without requiring it to meet ideal standards of appearance, ability, age, or sexual performance.