LGBT

Psychology
 :Definition of terms

Lesbian- women who are emotionally and sexually
attracted to women.

Gay- men who are emotionally and sexually
attracted to men.

Bisexual- man or woman who are emotionally and
women who

sexually attracted to men or women.


Transgender –when your gender identity (how you
feel) I. Different from
 Introduction

Labels are powerful it can be used to discriminate and

oppress people. Like how the German Nazi’s used the word
'Aryan race’to mean superior and
‘Jews’’and .’homosexual’to justify their mass murder of
what they called as 'inferior’race.
 Views on LGBT in history

Sexual and emotional Attraction towards the same sex

has been recorded Throughout history of mankind. In china
6oo BCE, they used the terms ‘ pleasures of the bitten
peach’ and 'brokeback’. In japan, they have 'shudo’ or
nanshoku’. Kathoey’ is used in Thailand to refer to lady
boys. In the Philippines we have the 'babayla ‘ and
‘catalonan’ .
In ancient greek , all males are expected to take on
younger male lover in a practice called pederasty.
Some societies, like the indigenous Native American,
accepted and celebrated what they called’ Two –
spirited’ person in a dance to the ‘ Berdache’.
The ABC’s of the LGBTQIA+

In an effort towards visibility and inclusion, a few letters were

added to the LGBT. These labels are Changing,some you may
be familiar with, but others may be very new to you.

• Lesbian- Women who are emotionally and sexually attracted

to women.
• Gay- men who are emotionally and sexually attracted to
men.
• Bisexual- man or woman who are emotionally and sexually
attracted to men or women.
• Transgender – when your gender identity ( how you feel) is
different from your physical sex
( male/female)
• Queer- used by people who celebrate all gender identities, can
also mean someone who do not want to be restricted as
Lesbian,Gay or Bi.
• Intersex- people who were born with sex genitals or
chromosome patterns that don not fit the typical male or
female body.
• Asexual/Ally- asexual are people who do not feel sexual
attraction to anyone,but it does not mean that they do not
engage in romantic or sexual relationships..
• Plus + - the plus sign refers to all sexualities that do not fit in the
LGBTQI spectrum.

Knowledge on the human sexuality is still evolving so there are

many terms that pops up.

• Androgynous- People whose gender expression( their physical

appearance) may or may not be distinctly mae or female.
• Gender – your eternal sense of being masculine or feminine or
neither.
• Gender identity – how you feel, man,women, or neither.
• Gender expression – how yo express your sense of being male or
female or neither, maybe through hairstyle, clothes, etc.
• Sexual Orientation- your emotional and sexual attraction to a
person.
• Sex assignned at birth- your given sex when where born based
on your sex organ.
• Cisgender - when your gender identity matches with the sex you
are assigned at birth.
• Non- binary – people who do not feel like a boy or a girl, they
may feel like they are both or neither, so sometimes they use the
pronouns they, them, and theirs.
 Understanding Transgenderis

Society attaches a lot of meanigs to our biological sex,

Parents unknowingly set up a gender-based pattern of
raising their children upon knowing the biological sex of
their babies. Pink for girls an blue for boys is a reflection of
our heteronormative culture wherein we expected females
to be feminine nd males to be masculine.
Who is a transgender ?

The APA defines transgender as “ an umbrella

term for person’s whose gender Identity, gender
expression, or behavior does not confort to the
typically associated with the sex to which they were
assigned At birth”.
Other sexualities under umbrella term includes:

• FTM- some Female to male, a person whose biological sex is

female and has transitioned to living his life as male.
• MTF- male to female, a person whose biological sex is male and
has transitioned to living her life as a female.
• Crossdressing – some people want to dress as the opposite gender
from time to time, however, unlike the transexual, they are
comfortable identifying with their biological sex.
• Drag kings and queens – these are people who dress as the
opposite gender for entertainment which they do out of
passion or for work; and
• Gender queer- these are people who feel like their gender
does not fit the gender binary view that is limited to the
male or female category because they feel that these are too
restrive.
 The Transitioning process

• when a person realizes that he or 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.
• There are transgender people who cannot have or do not
want to have hormonal replacement therapy or sex
reassignment surgery because of personal, economic,or
cultural reasons and that is okay.
• Transitioning to another gender is a very Challenging
process for many transgender people because of the social
stigma, discrimination, medical cost , accessibility of
medical treatment and support, oppressive laws in each
country, and the threat of violence from prejudiced
people.
• The proper use of pronouns, he or she, should be
observed when talking to a Transgender person to show
respect as a descent human being.
• Often, when a person is clearly presenting herself as a
female by the way they dress and carry themselves,it is
safe to assume that they want to use “ she” and “her”. The
same goes for the transgender men who is clearly
presenting himself as a man, you may use “him” or “her”.
However, it is always a good practice to ask them for their
preferred pronoun instead of assuming but do so in a polite
way.
Summary:

Labels are important especially in the acceptance

and promotion of human rights. The evolution of the
terms used to describe people who are emotionally and
sexually attracted to the same sex have evolved through
time. From homosexuality, to gay and to LGBTQIA +, let
us remember that we are all humans, born free and
equal.
References

The human rights campaign foundation.

(2019). Welcoming school.Retrieved February
14 2019 from
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initions/youth-definitions/

Gold,M (2018). The ABC’s of LGBTQIA+, The

New York Times. Retrieved February 14, 2019
from
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/style/
lgbtq-gender-laungage.html
Miguel Valerie Padre Charlene A.