The Human Rights Campaign provides the following definitions:

• Sexual orientation: An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people.

• Gender identity: A person's innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither.

• Gender expression: A person's external appearance of gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors typically associated with being either masculine or feminine.

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