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Understanding LGBT Gender Identity Terms

The document provides definitions and explanations of key terms related to LGBT psychology, including gender identity, expression, and sexual orientation. It discusses transgenderism, the transitioning process, and the challenges faced by transgender individuals, particularly in the Philippines where legal and medical support is lacking. Additionally, it highlights various sexualities under the LGBT umbrella, including cisgender, non-binary, and drag performers.

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Understanding LGBT Gender Identity Terms

The document provides definitions and explanations of key terms related to LGBT psychology, including gender identity, expression, and sexual orientation. It discusses transgenderism, the transitioning process, and the challenges faced by transgender individuals, particularly in the Philippines where legal and medical support is lacking. Additionally, it highlights various sexualities under the LGBT umbrella, including cisgender, non-binary, and drag performers.

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LGBT

Psychology
by Hermoine
definition of terms
gender
androgynous Gender identity
people whose
your internal
gender expression
sense of being how you feel,
(their physical
masculine or man, women or
appearance) may
feminine or neither
or may not be
neither
distinctly male or
female
definition of terms
Gender sexual sex assigned at
expression orientation birth
how you express
your sense of your emotional given sex
being male or and sexual when you were
female or attraction to a born based on
neither, may person your sex
through organ
hairstyle,
clothes, etc
definition of terms
non-binary
Cisgender
people who do not feel
when your gender like a boy or a girl; they
identity matches with may feel like they are
the sex you are both or neither, so
assigned at birth sometimes they use the
pronouns they, them,
theirs
Understanding
Transgenderism
TRANSGENDER
--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.
Understanding
Transgenderism
TRANSEXUAL
often used in the medical field to refer to
people whose gender identity is different
from their biological sex and they may
want to change their body, so it
resembles how they feel about their
gender identity
other sexualities under the
umbrella
MTF
FTM male to female, a
female to male, a person whose biological
person whose biological sex is male and has
sex is female and has transitioned to living his
transitioned to living his life as a female
life as a male
other sexualities under
the umbrella
drag kings and gender
crossdressing queens queer
some people want to people who does
people who does
dress as the people who not feel like
opposite gender dress for the gender does not
from time to time, opposite gender fit the gender
unlike the for binary view bc
transsexual, they are entertainment they feel that
comfortable they are too
identifying with their restrictive
biological sex
the TRANSitioning
process
When a person realizes that he/she may be a
transgender, a psychologist can guide the
person through the transition especially when
a person wants to go through permanent
changes like sex reassignment surgery.
the TRANSitioning
process
In some countries, transitioning is covered by
their medical insurance, and they get support
from their employers and families which is
very crucial during transitioning bc it takes
years to fully transition.
the TRANSitioning
process
Some countries allow transgender people to
change their legal gender from male to
female and vice versa. However, Philippines
still lack the laws and medical capacity to
support transgender people in living their full
potential
jurisprudence
Thank You

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