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Sexual and Gender Minorities MeSH Descriptor Data 2025
Individuals including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, gender non-conforming people, and other populations whose sexual orientation or GENDER IDENTITY and reproductive development is considered outside cultural, societal, or physiological norms.
2018; was SEXUAL MINORITIES 2017; for BISEXUALS see BISEXUALITY 1996-2016; for LESBIANS use HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE 1995-2016; for HOMOSEXUALS use HOMOSEXUALITY 1989-2016; for QUEERS use HOMOSEXALITY 2016-2017; for GAYS use HOMOSEXUALITY 1995-2016
History Note
2018; was SEXUAL MINORITIES 2017; for BISEXUALS use BISEXUALITY 1996-2016; for LESBIANS see HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE 1995-2016; for HOMOSEXUALS see HOMOSEXUALITY 1989-2016; for QUEERS see HOMOSEXALITY 2016-2017; for GAYS see HOMOSEXUALITY 1995-2016
Individuals including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, gender non-conforming people, and other populations whose sexual orientation or GENDER IDENTITY and reproductive development is considered outside cultural, societal, or physiological norms.