impairment; or are regarded as having such impairment. A qualified person with a disability must be able to perform the essential functions of the employment or volunteer position or the academic, athletic, or extra-curricular program, with or without reasonable accommodation.
National Origin: An individual’s actual or perceived country or ethnicity of origin.
Gender: A socially constructed set of expectations, roles, behaviors, and activities a given society or culture considers appropriate for individuals generally based on an individual’s sex assigned at birth. Gender Expression: The external appearance of one’s gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut, or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine. Gender Identity: One’s innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One’s gender identity can be the same as or different from their sex assigned at birth. Genetic Information: Information about (i) an individual’s genetic tests, (ii) the genetic tests of family members of such individual, and (iii) the manifestation of a disease or disorder in family members of such individual. Genetic Information includes, with respect to any individual, any request for, or receipt of, genetic services, or participation in clinical research that includes genetic services by such individual or any family member of such individual. Military Status: Service members and veterans including disabled veterans, special disabled veterans, veterans of the Vietnam Era, and other protected veterans as defined by federal and state law. Race: An individual’s actual or perceived racial or ethnic ancestry or physical characteristics associated with a person’s race, such as a person’s color, hair (including hair texture or hairstyle commonly associated with a particular race), facial features, height, and weight. The concept of race under some laws is broader than the modern understanding of the term and may include ancestral and ethnic characteristics. The protected characteristic of race also includes association with a person of a different race than the person to whom the discrimination or harassment is directed. Religion: All aspects of religious observance, practice, or beliefs,includinga lack of religion. Also includes actual or perceived shared ancestry, ethnic characteristics, or citizenship/residency in a country with a dominant religion. Sex (Assigned at Birth): A designation at birth (male, female, and intersex) generally based on external appearance of sex organs; includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth. Conduct of a sexual nature is by definition based on Sex as a Protected Status. Sexual Orientation: One’s sexual, romantic, physical, and/or emotional attraction (or lack of attraction) to others. B. Stalking A course of conduct (including cyberstalking) directed at a specific person, based on that person’s protected status/characteristic, that would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety or the safety of another, or to suffer substantial emotional distress. A course of conduct means two or more acts, including but not limited to acts in which a person directly, indirectly, or through third parties, by any action, method, device, or means, follows, monitors, observes, surveils, threatens, or communicates to or about another person, or interferes with another person’s property. Substantial emotional distress means significant mental suffering or anguish.
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