2. My Topic…
In my writing this semester, I want to share my views on the LGBT community, gender, and sexuality. I
mainly want to focus on what it truly means to have these feelings and what it means to be gay, lesbian,
transgender or bisexual and rebuttal the negative feelings and hate towards this community. Because, at
the very least, everyone deserves respect.
3. History
My topic is a very broad one, where there is not only one focus, but many focuses on many different
people. However, they are all part of the same group, they all receive the same negative feelings from
society for hundreds of years.
In the past, during the times where the Native Americans had their control over their own world, the idea of
being gender nonconforming and a gender that was fluid and went through being masculine and feminine
at different times, was seen as a wonderful thing. They saw it as good because during arguments between
the different genders, these individuals were able to see both sides of the argument and provide a third
party’s opinion.
However, people who are seen as gender nonconforming or transgender are sometimes seen as
someone who has a mental disorder or who are confused. People who have been part of the LGBT
community have been treated negatively and positively, but right now, people seem to know more about
the negative aspects of this topic because they seem to have a louder voice.
4. Gender
Gender definition: the state of being male or female (typically used with reference to social and cultural
differences rather than biological ones).
Sex definition: either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and many other
living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.
Many people tend to mix up the definitions of someone’s “Gender” and someone’s “Sex”
Someone’s sex is their physical and biological attribute that they were born with (sometimes with both and
sometimes with neither)
Someone’s gender is the mental aspect of their identity and how they usually feel on a day to day basis
regardless of what sex they have.
5. Sexuality
Definition: capacity for seual feelings
It is the societal norm that when someone is born either male or female, they will automatically have
feelings for the opposite sex. This is obviously not the case however, there are many different types of
sexuality out there, they won’t even fit on this slide. The point I would like to make on the sexuality part of
my topic is to show that there are more feelings out there than just one of the opposite gender and one of
the same gender even.
6. Individuals
Caitlyn Jenner (Gender)
- Once Bruce Jenner, I don’t know much about this person but I do know that her coming out caused a lot of mixed
feelings about transgender people. She was very brave to come out.
Brendon Urie (Sexuality)
- A singer and artist who is the lead singer and only member left in the band Panic! At the Disco. And he came out as
pansexual and is an activist for the LGBT community.
7. Questions
● In human nature, would it be wrong to go against the uncertain feelings you have about yourself
when you are trying to figure out who you are from a sexuality and gender standpoint?
● How did the first humans of all time view homosexuality and view themselves? Did they have
gender? If they did, was it an important part of their daily lives?
● What is the psychology behind being transgender or gender non conforming?
● How was homosexuality and gender viewed before society took a hold on it? How were people
treated and how has it changed overtime?
8. Opposing Viewpoints
Many of the world’s most popular religion and faiths see homosexuality as a sin and would strongly argue
against it. Some of the people who belong to these faiths see gay marriage and transgender people as a
threat to them in some way and that it goes against their religion, where in their arguments they don’t
seem to have a very religious standpoint at all, it’s more so a personal opinion. I plan to refute the religious
side of these viewpoints by doing research on a scientists point of view and a religious person’s point of
view. I hope to show people that it is in nature to be homosexual or transgender, and that no matter what
your religion is, the God(s) you believe in will still love the person regardless of who they love and how
they identify. Because, God created nature, and scientifically if homosexuality is found in nature and
especially in human nature, to go against it and reject it in a hateful manner is to go against God.
9. Bibliography
Waldman, Steven. “Why Religious People Are against Gay Marriage.” Slate Magazine, Slate, 19 Nov.
2003, slate.com/human-interest/2003/11/why-religious-people-are-against-gay-marriage.html.
“Religion in America: U.S. Religious Data, Demographics and Statistics | Pew Research Center.” Pew
Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project, Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project, 11
May 2015, www.pewforum.org/religious-landscape-study/views-about-homosexuality/.
Arnold, Nick. “7 People Who Changed LGBT History - BBC Three.” BBC News, BBC, 6 Mar. 2018,
www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/1f4c71a6-1359-4241-9f91-7b0a1b5ac9a0.
