SOGIE TERMS Flashcards
An acronym for sexual orientation. gender identity, and gender expression.
Everyone has a sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
SOGIE
SOGIE
Sexual Qrientation, gender Identity and Expression
An acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual. transgender, and queer and/or questioning.
It notes a community or coalition of people with diverse gender identities and sexual
orientations not limited to those specified in the acronym itself.
LGBTQ
Sex A combination of biological and physiological characteristics, including: chromosomes,
mrmones, internal and external organs, and secondary sex characteristics (e.g., facial hair)
used by medical professionals to classify someone as male, female. or intersex.
Sex
Female A term (Escribing people born with. usually: XX chromosomes, higher levels of
estrogen and progesterone relative to Other Formones, and organs including ovaries, uterus,
clitoris, and vulva.
Female
A term people born with, usually: XY chromosomes, higher levels Of
testosterone relative to Other hormones, md organs including testicles, prostate, penis, and
scrotum.
Male
A term describing people born with variations of internal/extemal sex anatomy and
chromosomes resulting in bodies that cannot be medically classified as the typical male/female.
Intersex
Refers to a person who does not experience sexual attraction to other people.
Asexual
Refers a person’s emotional, romantic. and sexual attraction to persons of the same
and/or different sex-
Sexual Orientation
Refers to a person who is emotionally, romantically, and sexually attracted to both
men/males and women/females.
Bisexual
Refers to a woman who is emotionally. romantically, and sexually attracted to other
women.
Lesbian
Not limited in sexual choice with regard to biological sext gender, or gender
identity.
Pansexual
Refers to a person who is emotionally, romantically, and sexually attracted to people Of
the same
Gay
Refers to people who are in the process of exploring their sexual orientation or
gender identity.
Questioning
A term used to describe a person’s intemal sense of themselves as a man/male, a womannemale, no gender, or another gender, regardless of anatomy.
Gender Identity