Gender

Gender Identity refers to each person’s internal and individual experience of gender. It is a person’s sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum. A person’s gender identity may be the same as or different from their birth-assigned sex.

Indigeneity

‘Indigenous peoples' is a collective name for the original peoples of North America and their descendants.

Race/Ethnicity

In our society, people are often described by their race or racial background. For example, some people are considered “White” or “Black” or “Southeast Asian,” etc.

The categories included below are taken from the Government of Ontario's Data Standards for the Identification and Monitoring of Systemic Racism and represent the categories commonly used as social descriptors in Ontario. They are not based on science or biology but on differences that society has created (i.e. is “socially constructed”).