gender

• Sexual orientation and gender identity are reaching the heart of global debates over human rights and social change
• SOGIE means Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Expression.
• Sexual orientation or sexual attraction refers to a person's emotional and/or sexual attraction to others
• Sexuality is complex and attraction can manifest very differently for different people
• Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender
• Sexual Orientation can be classified into five (5) categories: Heterosexual, Homosexual, Bisexual, Asexual, and Pansexual
• . Heterosexuals are people who are attracted to a different gender. They are labelled to be straight. A man attracted to woman and a woman attracted to man
• Homosexuals are people attracted to people of the same gender. They who are are referred to as lesbian (a woman attracted to other women) and gay (a man attracted to other men).
• Bisexual is a person who is attracted to both men and women. Sexually attracted not exclusively to people of one particular gender; attracted to both men and women.
• Asexual are people without sexual feelings or associations. Asexual individuals but this attraction doesn't need to be realized in may still experience attraction any sexual manner.
• Pansexual someone who is attracted to all genders. It is called omnisexuality, is the sexual, romantic or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their sex or gender identity.
• The second phase involves a decision to come out to others, e.g. family, friends, and/or colleagues
• The first phase is the phase of "knowing oneself," and the realization

  emerges that one is sexually and emotionally attracted to members of one's own sex. This is often described as an internal coming out and can occur in childhood or at puberty, but sometimes as late as age 40 or older
• The third phase involves living openly as an LGBT person. In the United States today, people often come out during high school or college age. At this age, they may not trust or ask for help from others, especially when their orientation is not accepted in society. Sometimes they do not inform their own families.
• Gender Identity refers to how we perceive ourselves (and want others to see us) based on our biological sex, socialization experiences, and personal preferences. Gender identity is different than sexual orientation because it does not refer specifically to whom we are attracted to. Instead, it describes how we view ourselves within the context of being male or female.
• Gender identity is all about how you think about yourself. It's about how you internally interpret the chemistry that composes you
• Cisgender are people whose gender and assigned sex are the same. It is from the word "cis" is borrowed from chemistry, meaning same. A person whose gender reflects their sex assigned at birth
• Transgender are people whose assigned sex and gender is different. It is from the word "trans" is borrowed from chemistry, meaning different. An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or expression differs from what is typical associated with the sex assigned at birth. Sometimes, trans" is used as an umbrella term for transsexual and transgender, where the asterisk acts as a wild card. There is not one single, consistent definition for each of these terms.
• Lesbians women who are primarily attracted romantically, erotically and/or emotionally to other women.
• • Gays experiencing attraction solely (or primarily) to some members of the same gender. Can be used to refer to men who are attracted to other men and women who are attracted to women. An umbrella term used to refer to the queer community as a whole, or as an individual identity label for anyone who is not straight
• Bisexuals a person who experiences attraction to some men and women. A person who experiences attraction to some people of their gender and another gender. Bisexual attraction does not have to be equally split, or indicate a level of interest that is the same across the genders an individual may be attracted to. Often used interchangeably with "pansexual".
• Transsexuals a person who identifies psychologically as a gender/sex other than the one to which they were assigned at birth. Transsexuals often wish to transform their bodies hormonally and surgically to match their inner sense of gender/sex.
• Intersex a person with a less common combination of hormones, chromosomes, and anatomy that are used to assign sex at birth. The term assigned sex is used instead of just sex because doctors will usually determine a baby to be either male or female even though the reality is not always that definite
• The "Q" in LGBTIQA most often refers to as "Queer" and sometimes as "Questioning “However, these two terms have different meanings. "Queer" is an umbrella term for people who do not ascribe to a particular sexual orientation or gender identity. On the other hand, "Questioning" refer to people who are in the process of exploring and discovering their sexual orientation and gender identity.
• Ally a person who supports and respects members of the LGBTIQA community. We consider people to be active allies who take action on in support and respect
• masculine a person who has qualities or characteristics associated with men, especially in a positive way
• feminine a person who has qualities or characteristics associated with women, especially in a positive way
• gender neutral whose qualities and characteristics differ from those which are traditionally associated with a man or woman
• gender expression how you demonstrate your gender through the ways you act, dress, behave and interact
• biological sex refers to the objectivity measurable organs, hormones and chromosomes
• sexual orientation who you are physically, spiritually and emotionally attracted to, based on their sex in relation to your own
• androgynous a person whose qualities and characteristics are neither masculine nor feminine, but are a combination of both