Race 

Sex/Gender 

Age 

Disability 

Religion or belief 

Sexual orientation 

Gender reassignment 

Pregnancy and maternity 

Marriage and civil partnership   

Direct discrimination: This is when someone is treated worse than another person because of a protected characteristic. 

Indirect discrimination: This occurs when a rule or policy applies to everyone, but it disadvantages people with a particular protected characteristic. 

Harassment: This involves unwanted behaviour related to a protected characteristic that violates someone's dignity or creates an offensive environment. 

Victimization: This is when someone is treated unfairly because they've complained about discrimination or harassment. 

Microaggressions - is a term used for brief and commonplace daily remarks, questions, or actions whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative prejudicial slights and insults. 

Macroaggressions - Large-scale or overt aggression toward those of a certain race, culture or gender.  Macroaggressions are obvious intentional insults where there is no chance of a mistake on the part of the transgressor to be provoking, insulting, or otherwise discourteous.  

Gaslighting - Gaslighting is related specifically to psychological abuse surrounding a protected characteristic, for example racial gaslighting is when a victim is led to doubt and question their own sense of reality regarding racism.  This can include countering a person’s memory of events, withholding "understanding", refusing to listen, "forgetting" or denying that something happened, playing down a person's feelings as unimportant or irrational, questioning the credibility of what the person is saying and victim-blaming.