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Heterosexual

Heterosexual refers to the sexual orientation of someone who is attracted to people of a different gender or sex than their own, commonly meaning a woman attracted to men or a man attracted to women.  Heterosexual people often refer to themselves as ‘straight’.

A person who is both cisgender and heterosexual is sometimes referred to as “cishet”.

Heteroromantic would refer to someone who has romantic attraction to people of a different gender from their own.

Other definitions/things to note:

​Heterosexual attraction is often characterised as attraction to the “opposite” gender or sex; however, this is based on the gender binary (the assumption that people can only be one of two genders).