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We celebrate the diversity of our campus community in welcoming prospective students to identify themselves through these responses. You should know that, regardless of your answers to these voluntary questions, the ������ is committed to supporting our LGBTQQIAPP+ students.

Legal sex designation: The UO is required to collect this data in order to comply with federal reporting including IPEDS reporting, student employment, international student status, and the granting of federal financial aid. If you are an employee or federal aid recipient, your designation must match your sex designation with the Social Security office. If you are an international student, your designation must match the sex designation on your passport.

Gender: The UO recognizes that gender is not limited to, nor always congruent with, the categories available in legal sex designation.

Sexual orientation: Along with other biographical information such as race, collecting sexual orientation allows the ������ and the state of Oregon to analyze important information related to student success and retention rates for specific communities of students. This allows us to advocate for resources, scholarships, and provide appropriate services at the ������.

The categories listed for all three questions were designated by the State of Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission (HECC).

Information shared on the admission application will not be used in admission decisions.

To update your legal sex designation, you will need to provide a government-issued ID to the Office of the Registrar if you are a student or Human Resources if you are an employee. While it is not yet possible to update your responses to these two new questions in DuckWeb/Banner Self-Service, we hope to have this option available soon. When we do, this page will be updated.

• ������Ի���¹: not identifying with any gender, the feeling of having no gender.
• ���Ի���Dz���Ա�³: a person whose biological sex is not readily apparent, a person who is intermediate between the two traditional genders, or a person who rejects gender roles entirely
• ���������ܲ���⁴: an umbrella term for people who experience sexual and/or emotional attraction to more than one gender (pansexual, fluid, omnisexual, queer, etc)
• �Ҳ���³: the adjective used to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic and/or emotional attractions are to people of the same sex
• Gender queer or gender fluid⁴: an identity commonly used by people who do not identify or express their gender within the gender binary
• Gender/gender identity⁴: one’s internal sense of being male, female, neither of these, both, or other gender(s)
• IPEDS: Integrated Post-Secondary Education Data System used by the National Center for Education Statistics to collect and analyze data related to education in the U.S.
• Legal sex designation: the sex that is indicated on government-issued ID, such as a passport, driver’s license, or Social Security registration
• �������������⁵: a woman whose enduring physical, romantic and/or emotional attraction is to other women
• ���ҵ��ղϲϱ����ʱ�+⁴: a collection of identities short for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, aromantic, pansexual, polysexual (sometimes abbreviated to LGBT or LGBTQ+)
• �ʲ��Բ����ܲ���⁴: capable of being attracted to many/any gender(s)
• �ϳܱ���⁴: a term for people of marginalized gender identities and sexual orientations who are not cisgender and/or heterosexual. This term has a complicated history as a reclaimed slur.
• Same-gender loving⁴: a term sometimes used by members of the African American/Black community to express an alternative sexual orientation without relying on terms and symbols of European descent
• �����⁵: refers to a person’s biological status and is typically categorized as male, female, or intersex
• Sexual orientation⁴: a person’s physical, romantic, emotional, aesthetic, and/or other form of attraction to others
• ���ٰ����������/���ٱ���Dz����ܲ���⁵: an adjective used to describe people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction is to people of the opposite sex
• �հ����Բ�����Ի���⁴: an umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs from the sex they were assigned at birth. The term transgender is not indicative of gender expression, sexual orientation, hormonal makeup, physical anatomy, or how one is perceived in daily life.
• Trans man⁴: Trans man generally describes someone assigned female at birth who identifies as a man.
• Trans woman⁴: Trans woman generally describes someone assigned male at birth who identifies as a woman.

Footnotes

1. Genderqueer and Non-Binary Identities & Terminology. Genderqueer Identities.

4. LGBTQI Terminology. LGBT Resource Center at UC Riverside.