Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr – What’s the difference? | Office of Equy, Diversy, and Incln

Contents:

• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?
• THERE ARE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENC BETWEEN GAY AND TRANS INTI

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENR – WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE?

Not bee they are bad, or homophobic, or transphobic… but bee the reali are not their own lived experience, or bee workg alongsi the groups may be a newer experience for them. E., bisexual, gay, straight. Transgenr people may intify as heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or none of the above.

” And transgenr never needs an “-ed” at the e the acronym LGBTQ to scribe the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer muny.

Sexual orientatn scrib a person’s endurg physil, romantic, and/or emotnal attractn to another person (for example: straight, gay, lbian, bisexual), while genr inty scrib a person’s, ternal, personal sense of beg a man or a woman, or someone outsi of the genr put: sexual orientatn is about who you are attracted to and fall love wh; genr inty is about who you everyone else, transgenr people have a sexual orientatn. Transgenr people may be straight, lbian, gay, bisexual, or queer.

THERE ARE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENC BETWEEN GAY AND TRANS INTI

A person who transns om female to male and is attracted solely to men would typilly intify as a gay man. 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. Many people wh a gay sexual orientatn don’t feel like f them, or that ’s of much importance at all scribg who they are.