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.
Sexual citizenship describes people’s rights, recognition, access, autonomy, and responsibilities in relation to sexuality, relationships, healthcare, privacy, and social participation.
Body autonomy is the right to make meaningful decisions about one’s own body, including touch, healthcare, sexuality, reproduction, privacy, and physical boundaries.
Communication accommodation adjusts how information is shared so people with different communication needs can understand, respond, and participate in decisions.
Disability-inclusive healthcare provides accessible, respectful, equitable care while supporting communication, consent, privacy, autonomy, and sexual and reproductive health.
Desexualization of disability is the assumption that disabled people are asexual, undesirable, or incapable of relationships, intimacy, and sexual autonomy.
Infantilization of disabled adults means treating disabled adults as childlike or incapable, often limiting autonomy, privacy, relationships, consent, and personal decision-making.
Sexual accessibility means removing physical, communication, educational, healthcare, and privacy barriers that can limit sexual autonomy and sexual well-being.
Body autonomy for disabled people means having meaningful control over decisions involving touch, healthcare, sexuality, reproduction, privacy, and personal assistance.
Supported decision-making helps people understand information, consider options, communicate preferences, and make their own choices with appropriate assistance.
Capacity to consent is the ability to understand relevant information, make a voluntary decision, and communicate agreement or refusal in a particular situation.