mental or behavioural pattern or anomaly that causes either suffering and/or an impaired ability to function in ordinary life, and which is not developmentally or socially normative;

a woman whose enduring physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction is to other women;

Based on the definition of the EASO Training Curriculum module ‘Gender, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation’.

refers to a condition in which an individual is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy and/or chromosome patterns that do not seem to fit typical biological notions of being male or female;

An intersex person may identify as male or female, while their sexual orientation may be lesbian, gay, bisexual or heterosexual.

Intellectual disability is characterised by significant limitations in everyday social and practical skills. Intellectual disabilities may appear at any age. Depending on the degree and specificity of the disability some would be visible and recognisable, while others may be identified through communication with the applicant. Intellectual disability and illiteracy (having little or no formal education in order to learn to read or write) should not be confused.

an impairment impacts in body function or structure;

refers to conditions in which individuals are fully or partially unable to detect or perceive at least some frequencies of sound which can typically be heard by most people; mild hearing loss may sometimes not be considered a disability;

understood to refer to each person’s deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, which may or may not correspond with the sex assigned at birth, including the personal sense of the body (which may involve, if freely chosen, modification of bodily appearance or function by medical, surgical or other means) and other expressions of gender, including dress, speech and mannerisms;

refers to the relationship between women and men based on socially or culturally constructed and defined identities, status, roles and responsibilities that are assigned to one sex or another;

Based on the definition of the EASO Training Curriculum module ‘Gender, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation’.

used to describe a man whose enduring physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction is to other men, although 'gay' can also be used to describe both gay men and women;

Based on the definition of the EASO Training Curriculum module ‘Gender, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation’.

Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.

Based on the definition of the EASO Training Curriculum module ‘Gender, Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation’.