Term
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Explanation
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Sex:
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The category assigned at birth, usually male or female, that is determined by a combination of biological factors including genitals, chromosomes, and hormones. Not every infant falls clearly into one category or the other (see intersex below.) |
Intersex:
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Term used for people whose sex at birth is not entirely clear. Intersex infants are often born with ambiguous genitals and are surgically modified, "assigned" either a male or female sex. Many intersex people today speak out against this practice and are challenging the medical field to stop it. The old term for intersex people (hermaphrodite) is considered somewhat derogatory. |
Gender identity:
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A person's internal sense of being male, female, or something in between or outside the two. Since gender identity is internal, it's not clearly visible to others. For transgender people, their biological sex and their gender identity do not match. |
Gender expression:
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How we each represent and communicate our gender identity, usually through "masculine" or "feminine" behavior, clothing, hair style, voice or body characteristics. |
Cross-dresser:
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Person who occasionally wears clothing typically associated with the other sex. Cross-dressers are most often heterosexuals who are comfortable with their sex and not interested in changing it. Cross-dressing is not necessarily related to sexual orientation or erotic behavior. It is but one form of gender expression. The old term (transvestite) is considered somewhat derogatory. |
Sexual orientation:
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Refers to the sex or gender of the people you are physically and emotionally attracted to. Lesbian, gay, bisexual and heterosexual are all sexual orientations. |
Transgender:
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A broad term for people whose gender identity and gender expression are different from their biological sex. This term can encompass transsexuals, cross-dressers, drag queens and kings, intersex people, and other gender variant people. |
Transsexuals:
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People whose gender identity differs from their biological sex. Many, though not all, transsexuals alter their bodies through hormones or surgery so their sex matches their gender identity. |
Transition:
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The period during which a transgender person begins living as a new gender. Transitioning can include changing one's name, taking hormones, having chest, genital, or plastic surgery, and changing legal documents (drivers license, social security number, birth certificate) to reflect one's new name and sex. |
Sex reassignment surgery:
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(Also called "gender confirmation surgery"): Surgical procedures that change a person's genitals and/ or other body parts from one sex to those resembling the other sex. Can include "top surgery" (breast augmentations for female transsexuals, or breast reduction or removal for male transsexuals) and "bottom surgery" (the creation of a vagina or a penis and testicles). |
Drag queens:
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Men, usually gay, who dress in women's clothing and make up, often for fun or to perform. |
Drag kings:
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Women, usually lesbians, who dress in men's clothing, often for fun or to perform. |
This flawed terminology is what the homosexual activists premise ALL thier supposed diversity and tolerange agendas upon.... It ALL involves sexual disorder...