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Lesson Objectives:
1. When you inish reading this chapter,
you should be able to discuss LGBT
history and relevant LGBT terms; and
2. Explain the importance of these
terms.
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Definition of Terms:
• LGBT - Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender; an
acronym used to refer to different genders.
• Lesbian - women who are emotionally and
sexually attracted to women.
• Gay - men who are emotionally and sexually
attracted to men.
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• Bisexualman or woman – who are emotionaly
and sexually attracted to men o women.
• Transgender – when your gender identity (how
you teel) is diferent rom your physical sex
(male/temale).
Definition of Terms:
6. z Introduction:
Labels are so powerful it can be used to
discriminate and oppress people. Like how
the German Nazi's used the word Aryan race'
to mean superior and "Jews and homosexual'
to justity their mass murder of what they
called as inferior race.
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Views on LGBT in History:
Views on LGBT in History Sexual and emotional
attraction towards the same sex has been
recorded throughout history of mankind. In China
600 BCE, they used the terms ‘pleasures of the
bitten peachnand ‘brokeback. In Japan, they have
‘shudo’ or ‘nanshoku. Kathoey’ is used in Thailand
to refer to lady boys. In the Philippines we have
the ‘babaylan’ and the ‘catalonan’ who were mostly
women priests, but some are males who lived their
lives as women.
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Views on LGBT in History:
In ancient Greek, all males are expected to
take on a younger male lover in a practice
called pederasty. Some societies, like the
indigenous Native Americans, accepted and
celebrated what they called 'two-spirited
person in a dance to the Berdache.
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However, later cultures see it as a "sin"
following the Abrahamic Religion which
branded it as sodomy, a crime against
nature. As these cultures colonized
other countries, it enforced its belief
systems of viewing same sex attractions
as a sin through violence such as killing
homosexuals through burning, stoning,
or being fed to the dogs.
Views on LGBT in History:
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Homosexuality was classified as an illness
in the 19th century as a basis for them to
legally persecute homosexuals, imprison,
and commit them to a mental institution. An
example of this percussion is that of Alan
Turing, the father of modern computing,
who was prosecuted in 1952 for
homosexual acts. He was sentenced with
chemical castration treatment, and he later
died through cyanide poisoning.
Views on LGBT in History:
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As science advanced through years of extensive
research, the APA removed homosexuality as a
psychiatric disorder or a sickness in 1973. This
decision was after many years of struggle from the
gay and lesbian liberation movement. APA finally
declared that being attracted to people of the same
sex is a natural variation of the human experience,
and it does not make anyone any less of a healthy
and functioning human being. Now that socley is
more accepting towards the LGBT, new terms and
labels have been used to cater to everyone.
Views on LGBT in History:
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The ABCs of the LGBTQIA+
In an effort towards visibility and inclusion, a few
letters were added to the LGBT. The term
homosexual"'sounded too clinical and it no
longer adequately represents the diversity within
the LGBT community. These labels are
changing, some you may be familiar with, but
others may be very new to you, so let us try to
explain it as simple as we can.
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The ABCs of the LGBTQIA+
• Lesbian - Women who are emotionally and sexually
attracted to women.
• Gay - men who are emotionally and sexually attracted to
men.
• Bisexual - man or woman who are emotionally and
sexually attracted to men or women.
• Transgender – when your gender identity (how you
feel) is different from your physical sex (male/female).
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The ABCs of the LGBTQIA+
• Queer - used by people who celebrate all gender
identities, can also mean someone who do not want to be
restricted as Lesbian, Gay, or Bi.
• Intersex - people who were born with sex genitals or
chromosome patterns that do not fit the typical male or
female body.
• Asexual/Ally - asexual are people who do not feel sexual
attraction to anyone, but it does not mean that they do not
engage in romantic or sexual relationships.
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The ABCs of the LGBTQIA+
Allies are straight or heterosexual people who are
fighting tor LGBT rights.
• Plus+ - the plus sign refers to all sexualities that do
not fit in the LGBTQI Spectrum.
• Andogynous – people whose gender expression
(their physical appearance) may or may not be
distinctly male or female.
• Gender - your internal sense ot being masculine or
teminine or neither.
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• Gender identity – how you feel, man, women, or
neither.
• Gender expression – how you express your
sense of being male or temale or neither, maybe
through hairstyle, clothes, etc.
• Sexual orientation – your emotional and sexual
attraction to a person.
The ABCs of the LGBTQIA+
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The ABCs of the LGBTQIA+
• Sex assigned at birth – your given sex when
were born based on your sex organ.
• Disgender – when your gender identity
matches with the sex you are assigned at birth.
• Non-binary – people who do not feel like a boy
or a girl; they may feel like they are both or
neither, so sometimes they use the pronouns
they, them, and theirs.
19. z COLLABORATE
This activity helps you explore gender stereotyping. Things to
prepare: (a) Toys most often considered female, as follows: dolls, tea
sets, plastic cookware, dress-up clothes, jewelry, make-up, and so
on; and, (b) toys most often considered male, as follows: trucks,
cars, planes, balls, plastic tools, toy weapons, action figures, and so
forth Pair up according to sex. For the first three minutes, play with
the set of toys commonly associated to your sex (i.e., male for trucks,
cars, etc. And females for dolls, tea set). Afterwards, exchange toys
such that you are now playing set of toys commonly associated to
the opposite sex. As you play, create a story around some ot the toys
from the perspective of the opposite gender. For example, the male
group might make up a story about the little girl who invited all her
dolls to tea.
20. z Understanding Transgenderism
Society attaches a lot of meanings to our biological sex or physical
sex. Parents unknowingly set up a gender-based pattern of raising
their children upon knowing the biological sex of their babies. Pink
for girls and blue for boys is a reflection of our heteronormative
culture wherein we expect females to be feminine and males to be
masculine.This limited view on sexuality makes it harder for those
who do not fit in the box of masculinity and femininity, like the
lesbians, gays, and bisexuals. However, it makes it so much more
difficult for the transgender people, those who feel like they were
born in the Wrong body or given the wrong biological.
21. z Who is a transgender?
The APA defines transgender as “an umbrella term for persons
whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not
conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were
assigned at birth.”This means that a transgender person does not
feel comfortable in their biological sex like a person who is born male
but feels like a female, and a person who is born female may feel like
he is male. This “Feeling or gender identiny is not somethìng that
changes through time, but is a teeling that they have since childhood.
This creates a problem for a heteronormative society wherein
everyone is expected and force to fit in the boxes of male
musculuminary and female femininity.
22. z Who is a transgender?
However history tels us that in diferent cultures across the world and
in different times in our history, there are people who lived their life
expressing a gender that is different from their biological sex. This
gender nonconformiry or gender crossings were celebrated by the
Native Americans through the “berdache” or the wo-spirited people.
We also have our own “babaylan” or “catalonan, precolonial priests
who are mostly females but some are males who lived their lives as
female priests.The word transgender is also used as an umbrella
term, this means that there are many identities under this term.
Transsexuals, for example, is often used in the medical field to refer
to people whose gender identity is different from their biological sex
and they may want to change their body, so it resembles how they
feel about their gender identity.
23. z Who is a transgender?
A biologically male person may feel like she is a woman since she
was just a child and in adulthood, she may choose to have a
“hormonal replacement therapy or sex reassignment surgery”.
Medical advancements have helped transgender people live a full life;
however, it can be a long dificult, and expensive process.
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Other sexualities under the
transgender umbrella term includes:
FTM-female to male, a person whose biological sex is female and has
transitioned to living his life as a male
MTF-male to female, a person whose biological sex is male and has
transitioned to living her life as a female
Crossdressing – some people want to dress as the opposite gender
from time to time, however, unlike the transsexual, they are comfortable
identifying with their biological sex;
Drag kings and queens – these are people who dress as the opposite
gender for entertainment which they do out of passion or for work; and
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The Transitioning Process
When a person realizes that he or she may be a transgender, a
psychologist can guide the person through the transition especially
when a person wants to go through permanent changes like sex
reassignment surgery. In some countries, transitioning is covered by
their medical insurance, and they get support from their employers
and families which is very crucial during transitioning because it
takes years to fully transition.There are transgender people who
cannot have or do not want to have hormonal replacement therapy or
sex reassignment surgery because of personal, economic, or cultural
reasons and that is okay. Transitioning to another gender is a very
challenging process for many transgender people because of the
social stigma, discrimination, medical cost, accessibility of medical
treatment and support, oppressive laws in each country, and the
threat of violence from prejudiced people.
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The Transitioning Process
Some countries allow for transgender people to change their legal
gender from male to female or female to male. This recognition is a
product of decades of collective effort of the transgender community
and the LGBTQ+ community. However, Philippines still lack the laws
and the medical capacity to support transgender people in living their
full potential. The proper use of pronouns, he or she, should be
observed when talking to a transgender to Show respect as a decent
human being. Often, when a person is clearly presenting herself as a
female by the way they dress and carry themselves, it is safe to
assume that they want to use “she” and “her”. The same goes for the
transgender men who is clearly presentng himself as a man, you may
use “him” or her”. However, it is always a good practice to ask them
for their preferred pronoun instead of assuming but do so in a polite
ways.
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Summary
Labels are important especially in the acceptance and
promotion ot human ghts The evolution ot the terms used to
describe people who are emotionallyand sexually artracted to
the same sex have envolved through time. From homosexualiry,
to gay, and to LGBTQIA+,letus remember that we are all
humans, born free and equal.
