Gay vs transgender
Nope!
It’s easy to get this confused, particularly because T is included in the LGBTQ+ acronym (T standing for &#;Transgender&#;). The key is to remember that transgender is referring to someone&#;s gender identity and not their sexuality orientation. Transgender people can be gay, straight, pansexual, queer, asexual, or any other sexual orientation (just enjoy cisgender people!).
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Our Foundational Curriculum is a designed to design a Safe Zone overview workshop. We recommend this workshop for all audiences &#; gay, straight, queer, allied, and anywhere in between (or outside) those categories. While some of it may be elderly information for some, we believe that everyone, no matter their knowledge level, will get something out of the experience.
We carry out have exercises that can be used for more advanced/specific workshops. Just check out the scout activities tab and find under the “” levels for more advanced activities!
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Ye An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people. Note: an individual’s sexual orientation is independent of their gender identity. One's innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One's gender identity can be the same or diverse from their sex assigned at birth. External appearance of one's gender identity, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, body characteristics or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine. An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth. Being transgender does not imply any specific sexual orientation. Therefore, transgender people may identify as straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, A word used to depict people who have a fluid sexual and/or lovey-dovey orientation which changes over time, or the course of their life. They may use different terms to describe themselves over time. An umbrella term used specifically to describe a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of sexual attraction. This encompasses asexual people as well as those who identify as demisexual and grey-sexual. Ace people who experience adj attraction or occasional sexual attraction might also employ terms such as gay, bi, lesbian, straight and queer in conjunction with asexual to describe the direction of their sentimental or sexual attraction. Umbrella terms used to depict the wide group of people who experience a lack of, varying, or occasional experiences of sentimental and/or sexual attraction, including a lack of attraction. People who identify under these umbrella terms may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms, including, but not limited to, asexual, ace, Up until , I’d never met a transgender person. Most of my gay friends hadn’t either, except for some who encountered drag artists in pubs. I&#;m unsure whether this is indicative of the larger gay community but if so, maybe it’s because whilst the gay and trans community are grouped together under the LGBT framework, their differences sometimes outnumber their similarities. The former is about sexuality and the latter is about gender, with each sharing different nuances, history and direction. I discovered these facts whilst writing the book and my motive for writing lay sorely with my curiosity as to why a person would search to change their gender. Trans Voices examines gender dysphoria by looking at the lives of ordinary people who reported having incongruence between their brains and physical bodies from an early age, before deciding the only way to release this mental anguish was to transition to the opposite gender. Gay people do not contain to endure these difficulties, which entail lifelong hormone treatment and sometimes multiple surgeries to bring the new gender into physica Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Definitions
Sexual orientation
Gender identity
Gender expression
Transgender
List of LGBTQ+ terms
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Abro (sexual and romantic)
Ace
Ace and aro/ace and aro spectrum