3. DEFINITION OF TERMS
• LGBT – Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender; an acronym used
to refer to different genders.
• Lesbian – women who are emotionally and sexually
attracted to women.
• Gay – men who are emotionally and sexually attracted to
men.
• Bisexual – man or woman who are emotionally and sexually
attracted to men or women.
• Transgender – when your gender identity (how you feel) is
different from your physical sex (male/female).
4. VIEWS ON LGBT IN HISTORY
• In China 600 BCE, they used the terms “pleasures of the
bitten peach” and “brokeback”
• In Japan, they have “shudo” or “nanshuko”.
• In Thailand, they used the term “kathoey” which means lady
boys.
• In the Philippines we have “babaylan” and the “catalonan” who
were mostly women priests, but some are males who lived
their lives as women.
5. VIEWS ON LGBT IN HISTORY
• In ancient Greek, all males are expected to take on a younger
male lover in a practice called pederasty.
• Sodomy – a crime against nature
• Resulted to killing homosexuals through burning, stoning, or
being fed to the dogs.
• Homosexuality was classified as an illness in the 19th century
as a basis for them to legally persecute homosexuals,
imprison, and commit them to a mental institution.
• In 1973, APA removed homosexuality as a psychiatric
disorder.
6. THE ABC’S OF THE LGBTQIA+
• Lesbian – women who are emotionally and sexually
attracted to women.
• Gay – men who are emotionally and sexually attracted
to men.
• Bisexual – man or woman who are emotionally and
sexually attracted to men or women.
• Transgender – when your gender identity (how you
feel) is different from your physical sex (male/female).
7. THE ABC’S OF THE LGBTQIA+
• Queer – used by people who celebrate all gender identities,
can also mean someone who do not want to be restricted as
Lesbian, Gay, or Bi.
• Intersex – people who were born with sex genitals or
chromosome patterns that do not fit the typical male or
female body.
• Asexual/Ally – asexual are people who do not feel sexual
attraction to anyone, but it does not mean that they do not
engage in romantic or sexual relationship. Allies are straight
or heterosexual people who are fighting for the LGBT rights.
• Plus + - the plus sign refers to all sexualities that do not fit in
the LGBTQI spectrum.
8. THE ABC’S OF THE LGBTQIA+
• Androgynous – people whose gender expression
(their physical appearance) may or may not be distinctly
male or female.
• Gender – your internal sense of being masculine or
feminine or neither.
• Gender identity – how you feel, man women, or
neither.
• Gender expression – how you express your sense of
being male or female or neither, maybe through hairstyle,
clothes, etc.
9. THE ABC’S OF THE LGBTQIA+
• Sexual orientation – your emotional and sexual
attraction to a person.
• Sex assigned at birth – your given sex when you
were born based on your sex organ.
• Cisgender – when your gender identity matches with
the sex you are assigned at birth.
• Non-binary – people who do not feel like they are
both or neither, so sometimes they use the pronounce
they, them, and theirs.
10. UNDERSTANDING TRANSGENDERISM
• Who is a transgender?
• The APA defines transgender as “an umbrella term
for persons whose gender identity, gender
expression, or behavior does not conform to that
typically associated with the sex to which they
were assigned at birth.”
• Transsexual
• “hormonal replacement therapy or sex
reassignment surgery”
11. OTHER TERMS:
• FTM – female to male, a person whose biological sex is female
and has transitioned to living his life as a male;
• MTF – male to female, a person whose biological sex is male
and has transitioned to living her life as a female;
• Crossdressing – people want to dress as the opposite gender
from time to time;
• Drag kings and queens – people who dress as the opposite
gender for entertainment which they do out of passion or for
work;
• Gender queer – people who feel like their gender does not fit
the gender binary view that is limited to the male or female
category because they feel that these are too restrictive.
12. TRANSITIONING PROCESS
• Transitioning to another gender is a very
challenging process for many transgender people
because of the social stigma, discrimination,
medical cost, accessibility of medical treatment
and support, oppressive laws in each country, and
the threat of violence from prejudiced people.
13. SUMMARY
• Labels are important especially in the acceptance
and promotion of human rights. The evolution of
the terms used to describe people who are
emotionally and sexually attracted to the same
sex have evolved through time. From
homosexuality, to gay, and to LGBTQIA+, let us
remember that we are all humans, born free and
equal.
