Glossary                          Begin Removing Barriers

Barriers to Care: Anything that inhibits access to health care, including, but not limited to poverty, lack of health insurance, income, lack of transportation, language barriers, limited clinic hours, lack of childcare or eldercare, lack of knowledge of screening guidelines, lack of clinician recommendation or referral, previous negative experiences, and fear of discrimination.

Intersex: Preferred term to reference people with evidence of both sets of sexual organs (was known as hermaphrodite).

Lesbian: One whose emotional, romantic, sexual or affectionate interest is primarily, if not exclusively, held by other women.

Personal Privilege: The level of ease with which individuals may or may not move through society, based on social constructs and stereotypes, and often delineated by race, sex, gender or sexual orientation. It is both the way in which society views an individual and, subsequently, how that individual perceives society’s views and moves accordingly.

Transgender: An umbrella term used to describe individuals whose gender identity and expression may not correspond with their biological sex.

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