D/deaf person who has an additional disability, such as cerebral palsy, autism, ADHD, blindness, etc.

A group of conditions that arise due to a brain or spinal impairment in the physical, learning, language, or behavior areas, which begins during the developmental period of life (before age 22), may impact day-to-day functioning, and usually lasts throughout a person’s lifetime. Examples include autism spectrum disorder, spina bifida, cerebral palsy, and intellectual disabilities, and can include a long-term physical or cognitive/intellectual disability or both. 

Inclusion of people with disabilities in everyday activities through ensuring equal opportunities for participation in all aspects of life. Inclusion means providing opportunities in an equitable, similar way to peers who do not have a disability, empowering those with disabilities to engage with everyday activities to the best of their abilities and desires. Disability Inclusion also involves encouraging and supporting people with disabilities to have roles similar to their peers who do not have a disability. 

A set of assumptions (conscious or unconscious) and practices that promote the differential or unequal treatment of people because of actual, perceived, or non-apparent disabilities. See Ableism9.

• 9. The quality or state of having — or being perceived as having — the physical, mental, or legal means or skill or power to do something. Ability is not permanent, can fluctuate throughout one’s life, and is another aspect of diversity in our communities. Disabilities do not necessarily limit people unless society imposes assumptions that do not account for the variation in people’s abilities

Describes the presence of differences within a given setting, collective, or group. An individual is not diverse — a person is unique. Diversity is about a collective or a group and exists in relationship to others. A team, an organization, a family, a neighborhood, and a community can be diverse. A person can bring diversity of thought, experience, and trait (seen and unseen) to a team — and the person is still an individual. See Workforce Diversity10.

• 10. Workforce Diversity means a collection of individual attributes that together help agencies pursue organizational objectives efficiently and effectively. These include, but are not limited to, characteristics such as national origin, language, race, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, socioeconomic status, veteran status, political beliefs, communication styles, and family structures. The concept also encompasses differences among people about where they are from, where they have lived, and their differences of thought and life experiences.

The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income in the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies. It recognizes that there are communities that are under- resourced, marginalized, and oppressed across Washington that are disproportionately affected. Justice will be achieved when everyone enjoys the same degree of protection from environmental and health hazards, access to the decision-making process, and benefits of a healthy environment in which to live, learn, and work.

A social construct that divides people into smaller social groups based on characteristics such as values, behavioral patterns, language, political and economic interests, history, and ancestral geographical base. 

Framework that characterizes people as either fit or unfit. It assumes that to be unfit is to be genetically inferior, and genetic inferiority should be eliminated to strengthen humanity. Eugenics was used to justify killing millions of people through the Holocaust, and prominent Western countries have used eugenicist logic to justify practices such as forced sterilization, involuntary institutionalization, human testing, and the withholding of medical care. See Ableism13. Though eugenics is no longer embraced as a wholesale theory, it still influences and shapes public discourse and policy in many ways: • Forced sterilization and coercive birth-control practices happening in the U.S. and globally. • Immigration policies preventing certain people from entering or residing in countries based on eugenicist logic. • People receiving public benefits are disincentivized from having more children. • Trans people across parts of Europe facing mandatory sterilization to legally change their gender. • Legal conservatorship, allowing a court-appointed guardian full control of an individual’s financial and personal affairs, once deemed “incapacitated.”

• 13. Discrimination and social prejudice against people with disabilities based in the belief that people without current disabilities are superior, have a better quality of life, or have lives that are more valuable or worth living than people with an actual, perceived, or non-apparent disability resulting in othering, oppression, prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination. Ableism comes in all forms, from overt prejudice to more subtle microaggressions and includes social habits, practices, regulations, laws, and institutions that operate under the assumption that people with disabilities are inherently less capable overall, less valuable in society, and/or should have less personal autonomy than is ordinarily granted to people of the same age. Ableism is a concept similar to racism, sexism, and ageism in that it includes stereotypes, generalizations, and demeaning views and language to the point of diminishing individuals and their experiences and perpetuating violent oppression.

American Indian and Alaska Native tribal entities that are officially acknowledged by the United States federal government to maintain a government-to-government relationship. This recognition confers certain rights, protections, and responsibilities under United States law.

The belief that women (and those perceived as women/feminine-presenting) should be allowed the same rights, power, and opportunities as men (and those perceived as men/masculine-presenting) in society and be treated in an equitable way. It is also the set of activities intended to achieve this state. 

A person’s deeply held core sense of self in relation to gender – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. A person’s gender identity can be the same or different from their biological sex. Gender identity is a separate concept from sexuality and gender expression.
• Agender – Refers to a person who does not identify with or experience any gender. Agender is different from nonbinary because many nonbinary people do experience gender.
• Cisgender – Describes a person whose gender identity and gender expression matches the gender typically associated with their biological sex. Often abbreviated to “Cis.”
• Non-Binary – A term of self-identification for people who do not identify within the limited and binary terms that have described gender identity: male or man, female or woman.
• Genderfluid – Describes a person who does not consistently identify with a single fixed gender and who may move among genders, or a person having or expressing a fluid or unfixed gender identity. A gender fluid person may at any time identify as male, female, agender, any other non-binary identity, or some combination of identities.
• Genderqueer – Describes individuals who blur preconceived boundaries of gender in relation to the gender binary and can also reject commonly held ideas of static gender identities. It is also used as an umbrella term for many gender non-conforming or non-binary identities (i.e., agender, bi-gender, genderfluid).
• Transgender – An umbrella term used to describe a person whose gender identity and sex assigned at birth do not correspond. The term is also used to describe groups of people who transcend conventional expectations of gender identity or expression. Often abbreviated to “Trans,” which is considered more inclusive than transgender because it includes the various ways a person can identify within the associated umbrella terminology (e.g., transgender, transmasc, transfem(me), etc.). Being trans does not imply any specific sexual orientation.

Genetic information includes information about an individual’s genetic tests and the genetic tests of an individual’s family members, as well as information about the manifestation of a disease or disorder in an individual’s family members. 

Having reduced or deficient hearing ability, which can manifest as mild, moderate, or severe hearing loss. 

Discrimination or prejudice against LGBTQ+ people on the assumption that heterosexuality is the cultural norm and the prejudiced belief that heterosexuals are socially and culturally superior.
• Compulsory Heterosexuality – Compulsory Heterosexuality (Comphet): A theory that heterosexuality is assumed and enforced upon people by a patriarchal and heteronormative society. In this theory, heterosexual relationships are seen as universally desired with the pinnacle often being a cis man and woman getting married. The phrase originally referred to the assumption by a male-dominated society that the only normal sexual relationship is between a man and a woman.
The phrase carries the implication that heterosexuality is neither inborn nor chosen by the individual, but rather is a product of culture and is thus forced. Behind the theory of compulsory heterosexuality is the idea that biological sex is determined, that gender is how one behaves, and that sexuality is a preference.