you

a r e
attract-
ed to is
not neces-

sarily deter-
mined by who
you are (your
sex/gender identity or
expression).

For all of us, it is the
implication that male and
female, masculine and feminine, are not
the only choices available to us, and that
sex/gender and gender expression are far
more diverse than we are used to thinking.

Some basic definitions, courtesy
International Foundation of Gender
Education and others:

Biological Sex or Biological Gender:
categorization as male, female, or other
based on the shape of genitalia or other
biological features (chromosomes, hor-
mones, secondary sex characteristics)

Assigned Sex or Assigned Gender: sex
recorded at birth, usually on the basis of
external genitalia, usually M or F; surgery
is sometimes performed in order to make
an infant’s body conform to the assigned
sex (see lntersex)

Intersex: biological sex not immediate-
ly identifiable as “male” or “female,” may
have combination of genitalia (penis and
ovaries), lack “corresponding” organs
(penis but no testes, ovaries but no vagi-
na), or have genitals cosmetically out of
the norm (enlarged clitoris). Surgery is
sometimes/often performed in order to
make an infant’s body conform to an
assigned sex, male or female

Sexual Identity: self-identification as
male, female, intersex, or other

Gender Identity: self-identification as
man, woman, both, neither, multi-gen-
dered or other; masculine, feminine,
androgynous, or other; social or cultural
category as opposed to biological

Gender Expression: behavior, includ-
ing appearance, through which gender

‘identity is communicated to others

Transsexual (TS):
FTM—female—to-male,
transsexual man
(assigned female at birth)
MTF———male-to-female,

transsexual woman

(assigned male at birth)
person who feels their biological or
assigned sex and their sexual identity are
not in agreement; may choose gender
expressions congruent with self-defined
sexual and gender identity, may or may not
choose (or have access to) medical inter-
vention (hormones, surgery) to bring body
into closer alignment with sexual identity

Transgender (TG): umbrella tern for
persons who challenge rigid, socially con-
structed concepts of sex and gender identi-
ty and/or expression; can include: cross-
dressers, transsexuals, drag queens and
kings, bigenders, intersexuals, androgynes,
gender benders, and many more

Crossdresser: person who, some por-
tion of the time, dresses in clothing tradi-
tionally of the opposite sex, but is satisfied
with biological and/or assigned sex/gender
and sex/gender identity (often self-identi-
fied heterosexual men)

Bigender: person whose self-defined
sex/gender identity is both man and
woman; may choose gender expressions of
either or both

Two-Spirit: one of many native
American terms for persons who were
transsexual, transgendered, bigendered, or
non-heterosexual (all of which are modern
terms that post-date the original native
concept...)

Sexual Orientation: categorization
based on the sex or gender of the persons
one is erotically attracted to; heterosexual,
homosexual, bisexual, omnisexual, pan-
sexual, asexual

Sex: (not to be confused with biologi-
cal sex/gender) a variety of behaviors or
activities in which one or more people
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