User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200416234118/@comment-25117610-20200417002801

Specially because sexuality has sometimes been written very differently in the DWU when compared to the real world (and even in the real world, it's quite hard to apply a nice little label to others), it not simple or right to say that, for example, River Song is bisexual, because she can be pansexual, or yet another term that's purely in-universe. But we know for sure that she's not heterosexual, so [[Category:Non-heterosexual individuals]] would clearly apply to her, even if [[Category:Bisexual individuals]] or [[Category:Pansexual individuals]] don't.

I'm of the opinion that, unless we get a direct quote of character X identifying character Y as (or, better yet, when we can, narration or character Y outright saying they're) "gay", "bisexual", "lesbian" or any other labels, that they're simply put under a category like [[Category:Non-heterosexual individuals]] (which would then house all the other, more specific categories).

A similar treatment could and should, of course, apply to gender identities (with the base category being something like [[Category:Non-cisgender individuals]], which would then "house" [[Category:Transgender individuals]], [[Category:Non-binary individuals]], and others that could apply) - disclaimer: I'm not the most qualified person to decide on this terminology, and categorisation, being cisgender, so if there is a better alternative, please do let me (us) know.