Deviance – a state of having non-normative traits, not performing social roles correctly.

Deviance-adjacent group – a social group that is not inherently non-normative, yet is frequently victimized by anti-deviant oppression and bigotry.

Identity – a personally important concept one uses to describe oneself.

Oppression – a social disadvantage, applied to some groups and individuals due to how they are evaluated by the society.

Norm – a system that assigns value to traits and to those who possess these traits, writes and distributes roles, and punishes for deviating from these roles.

Paraphilia – a historically formed label for a non-normative attraction in general; initially defined as any nonreproductive attraction, in contemporary context – as an attraction towards actions other than the ones implied by intimacy with a partner, body parts other than sexual characteristics, or someone/something that is not an adult consenting human.

Privilege – a socially advantageous position, connected to social roles, that most often takes shape of an absence of an obstacle others have.

Queer – a historically formed label for non normative gender attractions/presentation/identity, as well as absence of normative ones, that also includes several adjacent identities, such as polyamory.

Social perception – one’s position in relation to oppression and privilege, determined by factors that include assigned and chosen social roles and identity.

Social role – a behavior pattern one is supposed to perform, often assigned externally on the basis of some trait, sometimes chosen.

Transid – an identity that’s transgressive in relation to assigned social roles.