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What Terms Do You Want to Explore Today?
- Sexual Orientation
- Femme, or fem
- Pride
- Drag
- Intersex
- Transgender (Trans)
- Gender Identity
- Misgender, Deadname
- Gender Dysphoria, Gender Euphoria
- Chosen Family
- Asexual (Ace)
- Ally
- Queer
- Two-Spirit
- Coming Out
- Inclusive Language
- Gender Expansive, Genderqueer, Gender Nonconforming
- Pronouns, Neopronouns
- Cisgender (Cis)
- more…
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Writing Our Own Dictionary
If you’ve ever been curious about nonbinary identities, how trans journeys can look different for every trans person, the difference between bisexuality and pansexuality, or how to present your gender to the world…then this is the series for you. We spoke to LGBTQ+ people about what their various labels and identities mean to them, in their everyday lives.
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Back to School with It Gets Better’s Youth Voices
We are so excited to bring on a new cohort of incredible Youth Voices for our Fall/Winter 2025 cohort. But before we formally introduce them to you, they have some thoughts to share for this back-to-school season. Read on for some thoughts from Bekah (he/him) and Nashan (she/her), Youth Voices – Fall/Winter 2025, then checkContinue reading “Back to School with It Gets Better’s Youth Voices”
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Term of the Day
Transgender (Trans)
Someone whose gender identity differs from the one that was assigned to them at birth.
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It Gets Better is the world’s largest storytelling effort to empower LGBTQ+ youth. Investing in local, like-minded organizations outside the US, It Gets Better brings story-telling and other life-affirming support to communities of LGBTQ+ youth around the globe.