Gay Defn & Meang - Merriam-Webster

Contents:

• WHAT'S A GAY TRANSSEXUAL WOMAN?
• GAY WOMAN
• DEFINITIONS FOR GAY WOMANGAY WOM·AN
• GAY WOMAN
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE
• GAY
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

WHAT'S A GAY TRANSSEXUAL WOMAN?

Sexual orientatn refers to the endurg physil, romantic and/or emotnal attractn to members of the same and/or other genrs, cludg lbian, gay, bisexual and straight orientatns.

As GLAAD not, "Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual or queer. A person who transns om female to male and is attracted solely to men would typilly intify as a gay man. If someone tells you that a person is a "gay transsexual woman", is possible, logilly, to know who exactly this person is?

Is a man who beme a woman, then turned gay and started likg other women?

GAY WOMAN

Or is a woman who lik other women (th is gay), and then turned to a man?

Bee a transsexual woman would view herself as of the female genr (though of the male sex), the term "gay" appli as would to any other woman. That is, a gay transsexual woman is a gay woman, who happened to be born as a man.

Sexualy and genr inty are fluid and personal, and standard phras (such as "gay transsexual woman") will not be able to tell you whether the dividual first realized that they were gay, or first realized that they genr-intified as a woman. What if you changed the word orr, and got a "transsexual gay woman"?

DEFINITIONS FOR GAY WOMANGAY WOM·AN

Then breakg down, you have a gay woman. But you don't know which part me first still--were they a transsexual woman who later realized she was gay? Perhaps they jt feel more fortable intifyg as a gay woman, who is transsexual.

In my ment, I said that people don't turn gay, and upon further reflectn, I n see that this se, you uld make that argument. A gay trans-sexual woman is a geic male who intifi as female but is sexually attracted to women.

Changg her genr inty "turned her gay" but didn't actually change anythg except how she intifi herself.

GAY WOMAN

Had she been a gay man who changed her genr inty, she would now be nsired a heterosexual trans-sexual woman.

How you then apply "gay" to that I'm not totally sure. I suppose if you were to nsir "transsexual" to be merely a scriptor, then uld be dropped (at the expense of beg ls precise), and then you'd get "gay woman", which is unambiguoly a woman wh sexual tert other women. If she is gay, means she is sexually attracted to femal (of any kd).

So a gay transwoman (what you were origally llg a gay transsexual woman this qutn), is what you might say is a lbian who began life as a geic male.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR, QUEER, & INTERSEX LIFE

Pri, formerly known as Gay Pri, is a regnn of LGBTQ inty, affirmatn of equal rights, and celebratn of visibily, digny, and diversy the LGBTQ muny. G: Gay.

GAY

Why gay or lbian and not “homosexual”?

While the word homosexual is still ocsnally ed some ntexts, you might have noticed that don’t make an appearance any versn of the LGBTQ acronym.

As our age note on the term stat, “up until 1973, homosexualy was listed The Diagnostic and Statistil Manual of Mental Disorrs (DSM), psychiatry’s standard reference on the classifitn of mental illns. People aware of this former tegorizatn feel that the term homosexual still rri a negative nnotatn.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

” In fact, the term homosexual was liberately rejected by early gay rights activists bee, acrdg to The New York Tim, “they did not want to be intified as exclively sexual begs. For the and other reasons, the term homosexual is wily nsired disparagg and offensive.

Instead, the terms gay and lbian are generally preferred.