Are all transgenr people gay? » The Safe Zone Project

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• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• AM I GAY?
• THERE ARE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENC BETWEEN GAY AND TRANS INTI
• ARE ALL TRANSGENR PEOPLE GAY?

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

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.

AM I GAY?

A person who transns om female to male and is attracted solely to men would typilly intify as a gay man.

Some lbians may prefer to intify as gay or as gay women. GAY.

(See Answers to Your Qutns: For a Better Unrstandg of Sexual Orientatn and Homosexualy for more rmatn on sexual orientatn. Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual, or asexual, jt as nontransgenr people n be. For example, a transgenr woman, or a person who is assigned male at birth and transns to female, who is attracted to other women would be intified as a lbian or gay woman.

THERE ARE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENC BETWEEN GAY AND TRANS INTI

Likewise, a transgenr man, or a person who is assigned female at birth and transns to male, who is attracted to other men would be intified as a gay man.

The Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force released a report 2011 entled Injtice at Every Turn, which nfirmed the pervasive and severe discrimatn faced by transgenr people. Parents, Fai, and Friends of Lbians and Gays (PFLAG) Transgenr Network (TNET).

Answers to qutns: For a better unrstandg of sexual orientatn and homosexualy. Natnal Center for Transgenr Equaly and the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force.

ARE ALL TRANSGENR PEOPLE GAY?

Gay - While this adjective has historilly scribed men who are attracted to other men, the term now is ed to refer to anyone who experienc romantic, emotnal, or physil attractn to people of the same genr. Sce genr inty and sexual orientatn are separate, transgenr people n intify as straight, gay, lbian, bisexual, etc. In his ntributn, Mr Smh argu that there are parallels between beg gay as an inty, and beg transgenr as an inty, and that both s, this should be the basis for protectg rights and benefs for the people ncerned.

Givg gay people the rights and benefs tradnally afford to straight people don’t take anythg signifint away om straight people. There’s no qutn that trans people should have all human rights; however, when to benefs, givg trans women some of the benefs afford to femal—for stance, accs to sex-segregated spac and rourc—do seem to remove some benefs and even rights om femal; or so I argue my here I want to ncentrate on Mr Smh’s ia that there are parallels between gay and transgenr inty. He pots out that the ia of beg gay as an inty, the sense of beg a fundamental part of onelf, only emerged relatively late on the long history of sexual activy between people of the same sex.

However, I thk we also need to pture an ambiguy between two possible sens which “beg gay” n unt as an inty, or fundamental part of first sense refers to beg gay as a sexual orientatn, and is generalised to all gay people, as such. The same pot appli to beg heterosexual or send, different sense which beg gay n unt as part of your “inty” is as a matter of beg highly personally meangful for you.