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Sexuality, Gender and Changing Vocabularies - Ovid MEDLINE

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Ovid Training Team

2024-05-08

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Background

The words and phrases that we use to describe sexuality and gender have blossomed over recent years. This might be due to changes in societal attitudes or in the changing status of people who are part of these groups. Broad categories in MeSH include “Sexual and gender minorities” that has grown and changed in 2018 – view the history to see how the list has changed. Sexuality has not changed as much, but terms associated with changing gender, or gender identity may have. These terms may be used when seeking out information about healthcare for minority groups.

Search Stategy

sexuality/ or bisexuality/ or heterosexuality/ or homosexuality/ or homosexuality, female/ or homosexuality, male/ [Sexuality terms]

(lesbian? or gay? or bisexual* or queer or lgbtq*).mp. [Sexuality keyword terms]         

1 or 2

"sexual and gender minorities"/ or gender-nonconforming persons/ or intersex persons/ or transgender persons/ or sexual behaviors/

gender identity/ or femininity/ or masculinity/ or transsexualism/

(cisgender? or transgender or gender affirm* or gender identit* or gender nonconform* or gender fluid*).mp.

4 or 5 or 6

Transvestism/

Gender Dysphoria/ [From 2016]

sex reassignment procedures/ or puberty suppression/ or sex reassignment surgery/ [From 2011]

"sexual and gender disorders"/

Health Services for Transgender Persons/ [from 2013]

or/1-12

exp health inequities/ or socioeconomic disparities in health/

13 and 14

 

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Reviewers

Primary: Michael Fanning

Secondary: Charlotte Viken

Review Date: 2024-05-08

Expiry Date: 2025-05-08

Original search produced by:

Ovid Training Team

Citation:

OvidGO! Portal. Focused Searches: Sexuality, Gender and Changing Vocabularies - Ovid MEDLINE [Internet]. London (UK): Ovid Training Team (Editors); 2024 [updated 25 October 2024; cited 30 October 2024]. Available from: https://tools.ovid.com/ovidgo/searches/view.php?id=43