UP SOGIESC 101

• Sexual orientation


  Refers to a person's emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attraction to other people
• Gender identity


  A person's internal, deeply felt sense of being female, male, neither, or other gender(s)
• Gender expression


  How a person outwardly expresses their gender through clothing, behavior, interests, appearance, etc.
• Sex characteristics


  A person's physical traits that indicate their biological sex, such as chromosomes, external genitalia, gonads, hormones, and internal reproductive organs
• Assigned female at birth (AFAB)

  A person who was assigned the female sex at birth
• Assigned male at birth (AMAB)


  A person who was assigned the male sex at birth
• Intersex


  A person whose primary and/or secondary sex characteristics or the combination of their biological traits differ from the two expected patterns of "female" and "male"
• Sex assigned at birth

  The sex (female or male) assigned to an infant or fetus based on their external genitalia
• Female sex characteristics


  Biological traits often associated with women, such as XX chromosomes, vaginas and uteruses, ovaries, and the hormones estrogen and progesterone
• Male sex characteristics


  Biological traits often associated with men, such as XY chromosomes, penises, testes, and the hormone testosterone
• Around 1% of the population is intersex, which is around 1 million intersex Filipinos and 70 million intersex people worldwide
• Intersex youth with ambiguous genitalia are often assigned a sex by their doctors and/or parents, and doctors often perform surgeries to match the intersex person's genitalia with their sex assigned at birth and the gender their parents raise them as. These medical interventions are controversial and can be harmful.
• Gender


  The cultural and societal expectations of how girls, women, boys, and men should be
• Cisgender


  A person whose gender identity and expression matches the sex they were assigned at birth
• Non-binary


  A person who does not identify exclusively as male or female
• Gender binary


  The classification of gender into two distinct, opposite forms of masculine and feminine
• Transgender


  A person whose gender identity or expression differs from the sex they were assigned at birth
• Transitioning


  The process of changing one's gender presentation and/or sex characteristics to better reflect their gender identity
• Gender


  Cultural and societal expectations of how girls, women, boys, and men should be
• Gender identity (GI)


  A person's deeply felt internal and individual experience of gender, whether as female, male, or another identity, which may or may not align with their sex assigned at birth
• Traditional binary view of gender identity

  • woman
  • man
• Cisgender


  When your gender matches your sex assigned at birth
• Transgender


  When your gender doesn't align with your sex assigned at birth
• Gender binary


  • woman
  • man
• Gender spectrum


  • woman
  • man
• Non-binary genders


  Genders outside of the woman-man binary and spectrum
• Non-binary genders


  • Babaylan (Visayan) and Katalonan (Tagalog)
  • Hijra
  • Two-Spirit
• Non-binary gender identities


  • Agender
  • Bigender
  • Genderfluid
  • Genderqueer or Queer
• Transitioning


  A usually-long, complex, and personal process that transgender people undergo to live as their true selves
• Modes of transitioning


  • Internal
  • Social
  • Legal
  • Medical
• Transsexual


  Transgender people who have undergone or are currently undergoing medical transitioning, i.e., hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and/or gender-affirming surgery
• Terms to know


  • androgynous
  • feminine
  • gender conforming
  • gender conformity
  • gender expression
  • gender non-conforming
  • masculine
• Gender expression (GE)


  The external appearance of a person's gender, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut, names, pronouns, or voice, which may or may not conform to their gender identity or to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either feminine or masculine
• Gender expression


  • feminine
  • masculine
  • androgynous
• Gender conforming


  When one's gender expression aligns with their gender identity
• Gender non-conforming


  When one's gender expression doesn't match their gender identity
• Gender conforming examples


  • Feminine cisgender and transgender women
  • Masculine cisgender and transgender men
• Gender non-conforming examples


  • Cisgender and transgender women who are androgynous or masculine
  • Cisgender and transgender men who are androgynous and feminine
• Sexual orientation (SO)


  A person's inherent and enduring capacity for emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction to people of a different gender, the same gender, or more than one gender
• Heterosexual


  Attracted to people of a different gender than yours