MAPEH: GENDER AND HUMAN SEXUALITY

• Sex


  It includes both or primary sex characteristics and secondary sex characteristics. In humans, the biological sex of a child is determined at birth on sexual factors, including chromosomes, hormones and genitalia.
• Gender


  It refers to the socially constructed roles, behaviours, expressions and identities of girls, women, boys, men, and gender diverse people.
• Gender identity


  It refers to the person's sense of self as a member of a particular gender. It is their sense of being a woman, a man, both, neither, or anywhere along the gender spectrum.
• Cisgender


  It describes someone whose internal sense of gender corresponds with the sex the person was identified as having at birth.
• LGBTTQQIAAP community

  • Gay
  • Lesbian
  • Bisexual
  • Transsexual
  • Transgender
  • Queer
  • Intersex
  • Questioning
  • Ally
  • Pansexual
  • Asexual
• Gay


  A man who is attracted only to other men, but also used to broadly describe people who are attracted to the same sex.
• Lesbian


  A woman who is attracted only to other women.
• Bisexual


  Anyone who is attracted to more than one sex/gender.
• Transexual


  Similar to transgender but it refers to people who desire to or have permanently transitioned to the gender with which they identify, seeking medical assistance.
• Transgender


  Someone whose gender identity differs from their gender at birth.
• Queer


  Term now used by people who don't identify with the binary terms of male and female or gay and straight and do not wish to label themselves by their sex acts.
• Intersex


  Someone who's body is neither fully male or female due to medical variation. Includes people previously known as hermaphrodites, now considered an offensive term.
• Questioning


  Someone who is still questioning or exploring their sexual/gender identity.
• Ally


  Someone who is straight but supports the LGBTTQQIAAP community.
• Pansexual


  Someone whose sexual attraction is not based on gender and more based on personality.
• Asexual


  Someone with no sexual attraction to any gender.
• Human sexuality


  A concept that refers to a person's attraction and interest toward another person or people and his or her capacity to have and respond to erotic experiences.
• Sexual orientation


  Refers to a sexual and emotional attraction of a person to a particular gender or sex that usually shapes his or her sexuality.
• Factors related to sexuality and sexual behaviors

  • Family
  • Religion
  • Multiculturalism
  • Socioeconomic status
  • Peer groups
• Family


  As the basic unit of society, the family guides its member in the proper choice of clothing, toys and games, as well as instills proper behaviors in them.
• Religion


  This guides the people in topics of marital ad extramarital sex, marriage, and divorce and in terms of use of contraceptives methods.
• Multiculturalism


  People have different beliefs when it comes to sex, virginity, abortion and relationship.
• Socioeconomic status


  Poverty and lack of education affect people's attitudes and practices related to sexuality and sexual behaviors.
• Peer groups


  Peer pressure influence boys and girls.
• Gender is one's own social and legal status as men or women.
• Sexual orientation, on the other hand, is the term used to describe whether a person feels sexual desire for people of other gender, same gender, or both genders.
• Gender identity is one's deepest feelings about his or her gender
• Questioning - unsure about his of her sexual orientation
• Gender identity is expressed in the way a person acts, like masculine, feminine, neuter, or both.
• Some people are transgender, which means that their biological sex and gender identity do not match up.
• Issues related to sex and gender:

  1. Homophobia
  2. Sexism
  3. Transphobia
• Transgender encompasses a wide range of possible identities:

  1. Gender
  2. Gender Fluid
  3. Gender Queer
  4. Two-spirit
• Aspects of sexuality:

  1. Biological
  2. Physical
  3. Emotional
  4. Social
  5. Spiritual
• Sexuality's 3 dimensions:

  1. Biological
  2. Psychological
  3. Sociocultural
• Sexual health is not something that one should manage on his or her own. It should be discussed with the people whom he or she loves and trusts.