1. Gender and Sexuality 201
RA Conference Day 2016
By Ross Logan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZ9-qQ68EnQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAUDKEI4QKI

2. Ground Rules
 Recognize your communication style
 Expect to learn something about yourself
and others
 Speak clearly and use personal examples
when making a point
 Participate openly and honestly
 Engage in the process by listening as well
as speaking
 Confidential and Curiosity
 Take responsibility for yourself and what
you say

3. Ally
Sex
Cisgender
Gende
r
Identity
Intersex
GenderqueerQueer
Transsexual Pansexual
Gender
Expressio
n

4. Ally
Someone who advocates for and
supports members of a community or
individuals who have an identity other
than their own.

5. Sex
Refers to a person based on anatomy
(external genitalia, chromosomes, and
internal reproductive system). Terms
are male, female, transsexual and
intersex.

6. Cisgender
Refers to people whose sex and gender
are congruent: women who have
female bodies, men who have male
bodies.

7. Gender Identity
A person’s sense of being male or
female, another gender, or non-
gendered. Terms include man,
woman, transgender, genderqueer,
and two-spirit.

8. Intersex
People who are born with external and
or internal sex organs that are not
clearly male or female.

9. Genderqueer
A person who redefined or plays with
gender, or who refuses gender labels
altogether.

10. Queer
1) An umbrella term used to refer to all
LGBTQQI people
2) A political statement, as well as a
sexual orientation
3) A label to explain a complex set of
sexual behaviors and desires

11. Transsexual
This term refers to persons who
undergo medical treatments to change
their physical sex to be more
consistent with their gender identity.

12. Pansexual
People with the potential for sexual and
or romantic attractions toward people
of all gender identities and biological
sexes.

13. Gender Expression
Gender Expression in often conflated
with sexual orientation, but this is
inaccurate. This does not cause
sexual orientation. For example, a
masculine woman is not necessarily a
lesbian.

14. Gender Gumby

15. RA Conference Day Session
Survey
http://tinyurl.com/RAConferenceD
ay

16. Meet the Neighbors

17. Directions
You will read a scenario to yourself silently. You will
then break into groups or turn to someone sitting
next to you and discuss the following questions
and record your ideas for about 8 minutes:
• What feelings might this person experience?
• What are you going to do or say?
• What referrals might this person benefit from?
You and your partner/group will then have the
opportunity to share your thoughts with the rest of
the participants

18. Larry
Larry is a driver for the Recycling
Center. You have gotten to know him
as he comes around a couple times a
week. Today, he is clearly distracted
and isn’t as friendly as he normally is.
He opens the back door and you see
that someone has written in the dust
on the back of his truck, “Larry is a
fag” .

19. Questions
• What feelings might this person
experience?
• What are you going to do or say?
• What referrals might this person
benefit from?

20. Bella Jones
Bella is a student that you have been working
with for a year. Bella is a senior in elementary
education. She is thinking about changing her
major, and you are shocked! She has been so
excited about being a teacher. Bella confides in
you that she is transgender, that she was
identified as a male at birth and has been living
as a female since she was 17. She ‘passes’, and
very few people know of her legal gender identity
or name. It is time to start looking for a student
teaching internship and her faculty advisor told
her she can only use her legal name and gender
prefix on her student teacher badge. Bella
would have to wear a name badge and go by the
title, ‘Mr. Jones’, and she just can’t do it.

21. Questions
• What feelings might this person
experience?
• What are you going to do or say?
• What referrals might this person
benefit from?

22. Gavin
Gavin is a second year student. He plays
oboe and earned a full-scholarship in the
College of Music. He is a quiet guy who
loves reading when he can squeeze in time
between practicing. He is really lonely and
has very little free time. He is really
struggling to make friends. For little sibs
weekend, Gavin’s 16 year old brother came
to campus. A women from Gavin’s apartment
building sees him walking down the corridor
with his brother and says, “Aren’t you gonna
introduce me to your boyfriend, Gavin?”

23. Questions
• What feelings might this person
experience?
• What are you going to do or say?
• What referrals might this person
benefit from?

24. Tatiana
Tatiana has been having a great time
here at MSU! She is a student athlete
and has a wonderful circle of friends that
she has made. Tatiana has told a few
people that she is bisexual and they
have all been really cool about it.
Tatiana doesn’t know any other bisexual,
gay or lesbian people on campus. She
wants to get connected but doesn’t know
where to start and doesn’t want her
identity to be a distraction from her team
if she is an ‘out college athlete’.

25. Questions
• What feelings might this person
experience?
• What are you going to do or say?
• What referrals might this person
benefit from?

26. Alyssa
You know a coworker identifies as a
lesbian because she has shared
pictures of her partner with you and
discussed her relationship. In a staff
meeting, you overhear a supervisor
ask your coworker about whether a
guy the supervisor saw your coworker
with is her boyfriend. Your coworker
says “no” but seems upset by the
question.

27. Questions
• What feelings might this person
experience?
• What are you going to do or say?
• What referrals might this person
benefit from?