Good Stuff Happens in 1:1 Meetings: Why you need them and how to do them well
Gender identity and sexual orientation beth rouse women’s health issues
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2. Gender Identity: How we identify our self based on psychological
identification
Gender Expression: The way we express our gender through
clothing, mannerisms, and chosen names
Gender Non-Conforming: when the gender expression does not
conform to mainstream society’s expectations. It is neither clearly
feminine nor clearly masculine.
Transgender: A broad word for someone who’s gender identity
does not match their sex assigned at birth. This can represent
transsexuals, gender queers, and people who identify with more
than one gender.
Transsexual: A person who lives and/or identifies as a different sex
from the one assigned at birth. This process of changing gender
presentation can represent changing their gender with hormone
treatments or surgery.
3. Many people in today’s society mock this or think that
transsexual people are not normal consider the following
› You are born one sex per your genitals but psychologically you are the
opposite sex
› You are made fun of because you look like a particular sex but you act like
another sex
› The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM), uses the diagnose for Transsexuals as having GID or
gender identity disorder
› It cost thousands of dollars to make changes to your gender and may not be
an option for all who have DSM
› If hormone treatment or surgery are an option it is time consuming, there are
health risks, and involves a lengthy process
› Without surgery many transsexuals go through intensive retraining on how to
walk and talk and present themselves as their preferred gender
› Let’s not forget the side effects or hormones or surgery, the emotional affect,
and the physical affects
› It is difficult for transsexual people to access many services such as: rape crisis
centers, emergency medical care, homeless or violence shelters, these are all
segregated by sex.
5. What if you were attracted to someone
of the same sex?
What if you were attracted to both
sexes?
Do Societal norms make it right or
wrong?
Does religion have a right to restrict or
change the way we think of sexual
orientation?
6. Asexual: someone that does not experience sexual
attraction either for a period of time or ever
Bisexual: when someone is romantically/sexually attracted to
both men and woman, though not necessarily at the same
time
Gay/Homosexual: when you are attracted
romantically/sexually to someone of the same sex this is often
used exclusively for males but can be used when referring to
woman
Lesbian: women who are attracted romantically/sexually to
women
Pansexual: when you are attracted to people across a
range of genders often used to describe a transgender,
gender queer, or people that are attracted to transgender or
gender queers.
Straight/Heterosexual: when you are attracted
romantically/sexually to the opposite sex
7. Social Impact/Physical Impact – think
about…
› Coming out to yourself and your family and
friends and the world
› Religious beliefs
› Societal expectations
› The emotional impact of dealing with your
feelings, the feelings of your family, the world
and societal expectations
› Do we have right to happiness and
social/emotional well being regardless of our
sexual orientation
8. Let’s think about the emotional feelings
that may be affected
› Actually acting upon this, many feel they
should hide these feelings or suppress them
to fit into the societal norms
› Religious views
› Coming out to yourself, family, friends, the
world
› People assume you are confused and need
to find the right person (mostly meaning the
opposite sex)
9. Where do societal norms come from:
› Religious beliefs
› Family beliefs
› Traditions
10. When you are Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual,
Bisexual or Gender Queer does religion have
the right to affect your decisions
› It has always been believed that we look to religion as a
guidance of how to live our life to the standard they
believe is right
› We have a right to religion and our sexual orientation
› Religion should be between you and God not the man
made rules that are stipulated in ones particular religion
› Does God not love all?
› You have the right to your religion and your beliefs
regardless of who tries to prevent this
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12. Terms that are used for people that fear
homosexuals and transsexuals
› They lead to laws and practices that deny
LGBTQ people legal, religious, and social
privileges that heterosexuals take for
granted: marriage, filing joint taxes,
coverage under the same health coverage.
› They lead to discrimination of he LGBTQ
community which includes: housing, jobs,
and police brutality
