Lesson 1 Flashcards
SOGIE
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression
Everyone has a sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression
SOGIE
LGBTQ An acronym for
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer and/or questioning
It denotes a community or coalition of people with diverse gender identities and sexual orientations not limited to those specified in the acronym itself.
LGBTQ
A combination of biological and physiological characteristics
Sex
A term describing people born with, usually: XX chromosomes, higher levels of estrogen and progesterone relative to other hormones, and organs including ovaries, uterus, clitoris, and vulva.
Female
A term describing people born with, usually: XY chromosomes, higher levels of testosterone relative to other hormones, and organs including testicles, prostate, penis, and scrotum.
Male
A term describing people born with variations of internal/external sex anatomy and hormones resulting in bodies that cannot be medically classified as the typical male/female.
Intersex
Refers to a person’s emotional, romantic, and sexual attraction to persons of the same and/or different sex.
Sexual Orientation
Refers to a person who does not experience sexual attraction to other people.
Asexual
Refers to a person who is emotionally, romantically, and sexually attracted to both men/males and women/females.
Bisexual
Refers to a person who is emotionally, romantically, and sexually attracted to people of the same sex.
Gay
Refers to a woman who is emotionally, romantically, and sexually attracted to other women.
Lesbian
Not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sex, gender, or gender identity.
Pansexual
Refers to people who are in the process of exploring their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Questioning
A fluid label someone uses to self-identify as outside of the societal norms in regards to sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, acknowledging difference(s) without specifying which SOGIE category or categories the difference(s) occur(s) within.
Queer
Refers to a person who is emotionally, romantically, and sexually attracted to people of the opposite sex.
Straight/Heterosexual
A term used to describe a person’s internal sense of themselves as a man/male, a woman/female, no gender, or another gender, regardless of anatomy.
Gender Identity
A term used to describe a person whose gender identity aligns with those typically associated with the sex assigned to them at birth.
Cisgender
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 _ does not imply any specific sexual orientation.
Transgender
A broad term referring to people who do not conform to the traditional expectations of their gender identity, or whose gender expression does not fit neatly into a category. Sometimes called gender expansive.
Gender Non-Conforming (GNC)
An umbrella term used by some indigenous North Americans to describe gender-variant individuals.
Two-Spirit
How people refer to themselves and how they prefer to be referred to in terms of gender. Examples of _ include “she/her/her,” “he/him/his,” “they/them/their,” and “ze/zir/zes.”
Pronouns
External appearance of a person’s gender, usually expressed through behavior, clothing, haircut or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically associated with being either masculine or feminine
Gender Expression
Societal expectations of how people should act, think, look, dress, sound, and/or feel based upon the gender corresponding with their sex assigned at birth. _ often change over time
Gender Roles
Gender Identity
• Cisgender
• Gender Non-Conforming
• Two- Spirit
• Transgender
Sexual Orientation
• Asexual
• Bisexual
• Gay
• Lesbian
• Pansexual
• Questioning
• Queer
• Heterosexual
3 Type of Sex
• Male
• Female
• Intersex
