Understanding Same Sex Attraction

Sex

Physical evidence

Gender

Expression/orientation comes from the psyche or soul

Bisexual

Can have relations with either male or female.

Queer

Unsure of one’s sexuality or simply asking/wondering.

Transexual

Sex surgery

Transvestite

Cross dresser

Asexual

Doesn't experience sexual attraction and/or doesn't desire sexual contact.

Intersex

Born having both male and female sex organs.

Gender Identity Confusion

When a person is dominantly and sexually attracted to a person of the same gender.

Homosexuality

When a person engages in sexual activity with the same sex.

Gender Dysphoria

A concept designated in the DSM-5 as clinically significant distress or impairment related to a strong desire to be of another gender, which may include desire to change primary and/or secondary sex characteristics.

Genes

A basic unit in heredity which carry the information that determines your traits, which are features or characteristics that are passed on to you— or inherited— from your parents.

Gender Identity Disorders

Are defined as disorders in which an individual exhibits marked and persistent identification with the opposite sex and persistent discomfort (dysphoria) with his or her own sex or sense of inappropriateness in the gender role.

Paraphilia

Are frequent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies or behaviors that involve inanimate objects, children or nonconsenting adults, or suffering or humiliation of oneself or the partner.

Transexual

_______________________ people experience a gender identity that is inconsistent with their assigned sex and desire to permanently transition to the sex or gender with which they identify, usually seeking medical assistance to help them align their body with their identified sex or gender.

Homosexuality

Romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior between members of the same sex or gender.