Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

Gender is...

• What you are (male or female) based on your anatomy (body parts)

• What you feel you are on the inside (male, female, both, neither)

Gender expression is...

• How to show your show or express your gender

• If you're a boy you wear boy clothes, girls wear girl clothes

How society expects you to act and dress is called...

• Gender Identity

• Gender Expression

• Sexual Identity

• Gender Role

Gender Identity is:

• Your sex assigned at birth

• Your inner experience about who you are

Transgender is:

• When you identify as your sex assigned at birth

• When you identify different than your sex assigned at birth

What is non-binary?

• Someone who doesn't identify as male or female.

• Someone who identifies as both male and female.

Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation are the same thing.

• True

• False

You need to truly understand someone to be respectful to them.

• True

• False

Sexual Identity describes...

• the gender you identify with

• the type of person you may be attracted to

• the sex you identify with

The only terms we have to describe sexual orientation are "gay" and "straight"

• True

• False