LBGTQ Workshop

LBGTQ Workshop

This workshop covered the basics of what LBGTQ represents, and what sex, gender, and sexual orientation all actually mean.

What does LBGTQ stand for?

• • L**esbian

• • G**ay

• • B**isexual

• • T**ransgender

• • Q**ueer/Questioning

Sex

A classification based on reproductive biology. Assigned at birth most often based on the appearance of an infant's genitalia. Termed as female, male, or intersex.

Gender

One's internal sense of self; not inherently connected to physical anatomy. One's gender identity can be the same or different than the sex assigned at birth. Often broken down into Gender Identity and Gender Expression.

• • Gender Identity**: Woman, man, transgender, genderqueer, cisgender, etc.

• • Gender Expression**: Feminine, masculine, androgynous.

Sexual Orientation

A person's emotional, physical and sexual attraction and the expression of that attraction with other individuals. Termed as bisexual, same-gender loving, lesbian, gay, fluid, queer, straight, etc.

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Definitions

Cisgender- Someone who, for the most part, identifies with the gender which they were assigned at birth.

Transgender- Someone who identifies with or expresses a different gender identity than the one which correspond's to their sex at birth.

Androgynous- Having both male and female characteristics.