2.  Gender Identity: How we identify our self based on psychological
identification
 Gender Expression: The way we express our gender through
clothing, mannerisms, and chosen names
 Gender Non-Conforming: when the gender expression does not
conform to mainstream society’s expectations. It is neither clearly
feminine nor clearly masculine.
 Transgender: A broad word for someone who’s gender identity
does not match their sex assigned at birth. This can represent
transsexuals, gender queers, and people who identify with more
than one gender.
 Transsexual: A person who lives and/or identifies as a different sex
from the one assigned at birth. This process of changing gender
presentation can represent changing their gender with hormone
treatments or surgery.

3.  Many people in today’s society mock this or think that
transsexual people are not normal consider the following
› You are born one sex per your genitals but psychologically you are the
opposite sex
› You are made fun of because you look like a particular sex but you act like
another sex
› The American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM), uses the diagnose for Transsexuals as having GID or
gender identity disorder
› It cost thousands of dollars to make changes to your gender and may not be
an option for all who have DSM
› If hormone treatment or surgery are an option it is time consuming, there are
health risks, and involves a lengthy process
› Without surgery many transsexuals go through intensive retraining on how to
walk and talk and present themselves as their preferred gender
› Let’s not forget the side effects or hormones or surgery, the emotional affect,
and the physical affects
› It is difficult for transsexual people to access many services such as: rape crisis
centers, emergency medical care, homeless or violence shelters, these are all
segregated by sex.

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5.  What if you were attracted to someone
of the same sex?
 What if you were attracted to both
sexes?
 Do Societal norms make it right or
wrong?
 Does religion have a right to restrict or
change the way we think of sexual
orientation?

6.  Asexual: someone that does not experience sexual
attraction either for a period of time or ever
 Bisexual: when someone is romantically/sexually attracted to
both men and woman, though not necessarily at the same
time
 Gay/Homosexual: when you are attracted
romantically/sexually to someone of the same sex this is often
used exclusively for males but can be used when referring to
woman
 Lesbian: women who are attracted romantically/sexually to
women
 Pansexual: when you are attracted to people across a
range of genders often used to describe a transgender,
gender queer, or people that are attracted to transgender or
gender queers.
 Straight/Heterosexual: when you are attracted
romantically/sexually to the opposite sex

7.  Social Impact/Physical Impact – think
about…
› Coming out to yourself and your family and
friends and the world
› Religious beliefs
› Societal expectations
› The emotional impact of dealing with your
feelings, the feelings of your family, the world
and societal expectations
› Do we have right to happiness and
social/emotional well being regardless of our
sexual orientation

8.  Let’s think about the emotional feelings
that may be affected
› Actually acting upon this, many feel they
should hide these feelings or suppress them
to fit into the societal norms
› Religious views
› Coming out to yourself, family, friends, the
world
› People assume you are confused and need
to find the right person (mostly meaning the
opposite sex)

9.  Where do societal norms come from:
› Religious beliefs
› Family beliefs
› Traditions

10.  When you are Gay, Lesbian, Transsexual,
Bisexual or Gender Queer does religion have
the right to affect your decisions
› It has always been believed that we look to religion as a
guidance of how to live our life to the standard they
believe is right
› We have a right to religion and our sexual orientation
› Religion should be between you and God not the man
made rules that are stipulated in ones particular religion
› Does God not love all?
› You have the right to your religion and your beliefs
regardless of who tries to prevent this
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12.  Terms that are used for people that fear
homosexuals and transsexuals
› They lead to laws and practices that deny
LGBTQ people legal, religious, and social
privileges that heterosexuals take for
granted: marriage, filing joint taxes,
coverage under the same health coverage.
› They lead to discrimination of he LGBTQ
community which includes: housing, jobs,
and police brutality

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