Sexuality

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Sexuality

• How would your life be different if you had been
  born and raised as the opposite sex?

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Definition 1

• Sekshoo-ali-te
• Concern with or interest in sexual activity

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Definition 2

• Sekshoo-ali-te
• The quality of having a sexual character or
  potency

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Definition 3

• Sekshoo-ali-te
• The condition of being characterized by sex

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What makes up our sexuality?

• Components
• Gender
• Gender expression
• Gender identity
• Sexual orientation
• Sex

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Gender

• Congratulations! Its a boy! Its a girl!
• But sometimes

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Gender is assigned at birth by

• Phenotypic sex
• genitalia, reproductive organs
• Genetic sex
• Chromosomes (XX, XY)
• Hormones
• Male Intersex Female

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What isnt Intersex?

• It is not
• a medical diagnosis
• a social abnormality
• You cannot cure it
• a choice

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What is Intersex?

• It is something you are born with
• It is a medical condition
• It is when phenotypic sex ? genetic sex
• It is different from the standard ? or ?

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How many people?

• 1 in 2000 babies born visibly intersexed
• As many as born with cystic fibrosis
• 65,000 births a year worldwide

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So what?

• What do you tell people you have?
• What do you check off on a form?
• What really makes us male or female?
• Should it be surgically corrected?
• 5 times a day in the US, a child has cosmetic
  surgery on their genitals or reproductive system

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Gender Expression

• If gender is a social status then
• Gender expression is
• actions, thoughts, behaviors, beliefs
• How we move in the world
• How we communicate our gender to others
• Masculine Androgynous Feminine

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Gender Identity

• What do we call ourselves?
• What gender do we experience?
• Congruent Transgender Incongruent

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Transgender

• Is not gay or bisexual
• Is not Intersex
• It is an umbrella term for
• People who reassign their gender
• Gender expression is nontraditional
• Gender bender

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Sexual orientation

• Is not Intersex
• Is not Transgender
• Is whom we are attracted to
• Feelings, behaviors, identification
• Homosexual Bi-sexual Heterosexual

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What the?

• Trans LGB
• Intersex

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Lets talk about sex

• What we DO?
• What does have sex mean?
• What is regular sex?
• What is real sex?
• What counts?
• Ethics, morals, emotions

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