This document discusses gender identity, sexual orientation, and related concepts. It defines sex as biological features, while gender encompasses gender roles and identity. Gender identity is one's internal sense of self as man, woman, or transgender. Sexual orientation concerns whom one finds attractive, and is distinct from gender identity. Key terms defined include transgender, transsexual, heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, and asexual. The document notes that coming out is challenging but can be liberating. It concludes by discussing homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia as forms of discrimination against those who do not conform to gender or sexual orientation norms.

1. Gender
Identity/Sexual
Orientation
By:
Kara Lesniak

2. Sex Vs. Gender
 Sexis based on a person’s biological
features
 Gender is used in different ways:
 Gender roles – behavioral characteristics
considered “masculine” or “feminine”
 Gender identity – internal sense of ourselves
as man, woman, or transgender

3. Gender
 Our race, class,
geographical,
physical, and sexual
identities affect and
shape our gender
and may change
over time.
 It may not remain
the same from birth
to death.

4. Gender Identity
 There are new terms that fall outside the two
gender categories our society has traditionally
recognized: man and woman
 Transgender – a person who identifies with or
expresses a gender identity that differs from the
one which corresponds to the person's sex at
birth
 Transsexual - a person who strongly identifies with
the opposite sex and may seek to live as a
member of this sex especially by undergoing
surgery and hormone therapy to obtain the
necessary physical appearance

5. Sexual Orientation

6. Sexual Orientation
 Our gender is about who we are; our
sexual orientation is about whom we
find attractive.
 Howwe identify our gender influences
how we name our sexuality, and
whom we are attracted to may
change throughout our lives.

8. Types of Orientation
 Straight/ Heterosexual – women who are sexually
attracted to men and men who are sexually
attracted to women
 Gay/ Homosexual – women who are sexually
attracted to women and men who are sexually
attracted to men
 Lesbian – woman who is sexually attracted to women
 Bisexual – people who are sexually attracted to men
and women
 Asexual – someone who is not experiencing or acting
on sexual attraction at a give time
 Pansexual – someone who is attracted to people
across the range of genders

9. Don’t confuse
sexual orientation
with gender
identity!

10. Confusion Corrected
 Sometimes gender
identity and sexual
orientation are
confused and
stereotypes are
formed
 Being lesbian or
bisexual does not
mean our gender
looks or feels a
certain way

11. Coming out is the process of accepting
and affirming our sexual orientation or
gender identity and deciding how open
we will be about it.

12. Coming Out
 Letting other people know that we
identify as lesbian, bisexual, queer, or
transgender can be one of the most
challenging and life-changing decisions
we face.
 It
may cause several problems
concerning losing friends, jobs, and family,
but it can also be a liberating experience.

13. Homophobia,
Heterosexism, and
Transphobia

14. Homophobia
 Homophobia – the fear
and hatred of
homosexuality or gay,
lesbian, or bisexual
people
 It puts people at risk for
discrimination,
harassment, rejection,
or violence in everyday
interactions with others
and can affect one’s
own acceptance of
who they are.

15. Heterosexism
 Heterosexism – the assumption that
heterosexuality is the only normal orientation
 Itdenies legal, religious, and social privileges
to others
 It
can occur on an interpersonal level in
which family and friends may accept you
but may not accept others

16. Transphobia
 Transphobia – the fear and hatred of
transgender or transsexual people.
 Itinvolves more than just a slanderous
terms uttered. It has to do with those who
do not fit the norm of man or woman
having trouble going out in public.

17. My Opinions!
Liked Did not like
 That it is difficult for
people to come out  I dislike the idea of
to others heterosexism,
 Sex and gender are transphobia, and
often confused…I
had not known they homophobia. I
were different! think that it is
 I found it interesting wrong to
to know that there discriminate others
was a difference
between based on gender
transgender and or sexual
transsexual orientation.

18. What do you think?
 Why does society find it difficult to accept
genders other than male or female? Why
do some people not accept other
genders?

19. The End