This document defines key terms related to sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression. It explains that every person has a sex assigned at birth based on biological traits, but also has a gender identity and expression. Gender identity is an internal sense of maleness, femaleness, or other, which may align with or differ from one's sex. Gender expression is how one presents gender externally through appearance and behavior. Sexual orientation refers to romantic and sexual attraction toward other genders. The document outlines common identities within the spectrum of gender and orientation.

2. Sexual
Orientation
Gender
Identity and
Expression
Everyone has a
sexual orientation,
gender identity, and
gender expression.

3. SEX
GENDER

4. Sex
combination of biological and physiological
characteristics, including: chromosomes, hormones, internal
and external organs, and secondary sex characteristics (e.g.,
facial hair) used by medical professionals to classify someone
as male, female, or intersex.

5. SEX
- is assigned to us
Refers to the biological differences
between males and females, such as the
genetalia and genetic differences

6. Intersex
A term describing people
born with variations of
internal/external sex anatomy
and hormones resulting in
bodies that cannot be medically
classified as the typical
male/female.

7. Sex:
- Male
- Female
- Intersex

8. GENDER
Innate in us
GENDER ROLE
-based on what we hear about we should be
-Assigned societal role given to someone by the
people close to them or by society in general

9. Gender Identity
- based on what we think and feel
- a term used to describe a person’s internal sense of
themselves as a man/male, a woman/female, no gender, or
another gender, regardless of anatomy.

10. Different Categories of GENDER IDENTITY:
Cisgender- gender identity matches with sex
Transgender- GENDER IDENTITY does not match
with sex
QUESTIONING- unsure of GENDER IDENTITY
QUEER, GENDER FLUID, NON-BINARY- “Manness” or
womanness” does not play a vital role in
their everyday life.

11. Gender Expression
-External appearance of a person’s gender, usually
expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut or voice, and
which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors
and characteristics typically associated with being either
masculine or feminine.

12. Unisex
updated term: ANDROGYNOUS

13. Gender Orientation
Refers to a person’s emotional, romantic,
and sexual attraction to persons of the same
and/or different sex.

14. HETEROSEXUAL
Refers to a person who is
emotionally, romantically, and
sexually attracted to people of
the opposite sex.

15. HOMOSEXUAL
Refers to a person who is
emotionally, romantically, and
sexually attracted to both
men/males and
women/females.

16. GAY
Refers to a person who is emotionally, romantically,
and sexually attracted to people of the same sex.
LESBIAN
Refers to a woman who is emotionally, romantically,
and sexually attracted to other women.

17. BISEXUAL
Refers to a person who is
emotionally, romantically, and
sexually attracted to both
men/males and women/females.

18. -Not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological
sex, gender, or gender identity.
PANSEXUAL

19. ASEXUAL
-Refers to a person who does not experience
sexual attraction to other people.

20. IN SUMMARY
1. Humans are complicated beings.
We should learn to understand each other because we are all
unique.
2. Everyone has SOGIE.
3. To understand the LGBTQIA+
we need to understand SOGIE.
4. Being LGBTQIA+ is not an abnormality.
Being LGBTQIA+ is a part of the spectrum of normality.