NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has a strong commitment to providing adequate services for all its population including LGBT people.
What is LGBT?
With so many different terms used to describe people's sexuality and sexual orientation it is easy to get confused. The definitions below describe what the most common terms are:
- Gay is used to describe people who are sexually or romantically attracted to people of the same sex.
- Lesbian is a word that specifically describes women who are sexually or romantically attracted to other women.
- Bisexual people can be attracted to people of both sexes.
- Heterosexual is a word used to describe people who are attracted to people of the opposite sex.
- Transgender is a term that includes different groups of people such as transsexuals, transvestites and cross-dressers. In general transgender people feel that the gender they were assigned at birth is a false or incomplete description of themselves.
- Transsexual people can experience anxiety, uncertainty and continually uncomfortable feelings about their birth gender. Some transsexual people undergo surgical treatment to physically change their sex.
- Transvestite is a word used to refer to a person, who wears the clothes of the opposite sex.
