Sex, Gender & Orientation

ASSIGNED SEX AT BIRTH Male, Female, or IntersexDependent upon external genitalia, reproductive organs, and sex chromosomes. GENDER Man, Woman, Genderqueer, Non-binary, Other Cisgender – Gender matches sex assigned at birth Transgender – Gender does not match sex assigned at birth Gender Identity – The inherent, internal sense of one’s own gender Gender Expression – How…

Sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual identity are independent of each other. A person may express any variation of each of these in any combination. To discourage the free expression of identity and orientation by an individual is to impose a damaging burden of conformity. Sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual identity are independent of…

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AFAB – Assigned Female At Birth Agender – individuals may seek to look androgynous, and they appear neither male nor female. Other terms are Genderfree and Neutrois. Androgyne – is a person appearing and identifying as neither man nor woman, presenting a gender either mixed or neutral. Bigender – is a person who identifies as…

The Pink Triangle The pink triangle, now a gay pride and gay rights symbol, was originally used to denote homosexual men as a Nazi concentration camp badge. The pink triangle, (German: Rosa Winkel), was sewn onto the clothes by the Nazis before and during World War II (1939-45) to identify male prisoners in concentration camps…

Soon after Alfred Kinsey began tabulating the sex data he was collecting in the 1940’s it became obvious that several new modes of analyzing it would be necessary, both for clarity and to avoid confusion. For instance, to show how easy and feasible homosexual contacts are for “the human animal” as Kinsey liked to say,…

It is highly advised for HR Managers to raise LGBT+ awareness, informing each department that there are more than two genders. Gender is a spectrum, not a binary.  It is important to recognize this distinction because binary thinking around gender can exclude a large and overlooked part of the workforce. There are an estimated 1.4…

There are several theories that describe the sexual orientation development of gay and lesbian individuals. Because people are unique and everyone has his or her own story, no one theory describes all people. Some of the factors that influence development, and which are not yet accounted for by theory, include race, religion, culture, gender, and…

Gay men are limp-wristed and may have a Queen Gene, according to a controversial segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes, “The Science of Sexual Orientation.” The show suggests that gay men are prissy and prance and wear lavender pants while they lisp and dance. Which can certainly be true, in some cases, but is this just…

The article Men Know When They’re Aroused, Women May Not by Jeanna Bryner, highlights a very interesting phenomenon that deserves to be repeated in other studies to see how valid and reliable the findings of this study are. Here is an excerpt from this article: When it comes to sexual arousal, a woman’s mind and…

Overview Historically, when sex education was introduced to the general public, content was focused on puberty education for cisgender people, heterosexual sex, pregnancy prevention, and reduction of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). During that time, there was a great deal of stigma and discrimination associated with being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA)….