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Sexual orientation and gender identity are key aspects of your authentic self. Learn more about mental health considerations for LGBTQ+, plus ways you can help support the community.
Why Pronoun Use Matters
By Ariane Resnick, CNC
What to Do When You're Questioning Your Sexuality
By Ariane Resnick, CNC
The Importance of Representation in Books
By Krystal Jagoo
What Is Misogyny?
By Krystal Jagoo
What Is Intersex?
By Wendy Rose Gould
What Is Prejudice?
Fact checked by Adah Chung
What is Latinx?
Fact checked by Adah Chung
What Is the Two Spirit Community?
Fact checked by Adah Chung
Gender Dysphoria: Definition, Symptoms, Traits, Causes, Treatment
By Kendra Cherry
What Is Othering?
Medically reviewed by Akeem Marsh, MD
What Is a Demisexual?
By Wendy Rose Gould
What Is Gender Fluid?
By Wendy Rose Gould
What Is Pansexual?
By Wendy Rose Gould
What Is Asexuality?
By Wendy Rose Gould
What Is Homophobia?
Medically reviewed by Aron Janssen, MD
How to Navigate Your Own Privilege
Medically reviewed by Akeem Marsh, MD
Why Protests Turn Into Riots
Fact checked by Andrea Rice
What Does LGBTQ+ Mean?
Medically reviewed by Aron Janssen, MD
What Does Gender Nonconforming Mean?
Medically reviewed by Steven Gans, MD
Understanding the Stigma Faced by Transgender Women
Medically reviewed by Daniel B. Block, MD
What Does It Mean to Be Heteroflexible?
Medically reviewed by Steven Gans, MD
What Is a Hate Crime?
By Amy Morin, LCSW
What Does It Mean to Be Genderqueer or Nonbinary?
Fact checked by Sean Blackburn
Eating Disorders in Transgender People
Medically reviewed by Steven Gans, MD
What Does It Mean to Be Nonbinary or Enby?
Reviewed by Amy Morin, LCSW
Having Children When Transgender
Medically reviewed by Susan Olender, MD
Types of Sexual Minorities and Characteristics
Fact checked by Sean Blackburn
What Parents Should Know About Gay Bullying and Suicide
Medically reviewed by Steven Gans, MD
Spouses of Gay Men and Lesbians May Be the Last to Know
Medically reviewed by Carly Snyder, MD
Metoidioplasty vs. Phalloplasty
Medically reviewed by Daniel B. Block, MD