all aspects are a spectrum, not binary
location and identity bound
Identity:
- → gender
- what you feel like
- when identity and sex align, someone is cis
Attraction:
- sexual and romantic
Expression:
- e.g clothing, haircut, expression
- travestism → taking on expression of the opposite sex
Sex:
- biological gender
- spectrum, never 100% male or female
- intersex: biological sex that isn’t male or female
genderbread person → model to visualize the aspects that make up one’s gender
androgyny - having an expression which is neither male or female
asexual - not wanting to have sexual relations
bisexual - being attracted to both men and women
cisgender - when sex and gender identity align
demisexual - close to asexuality, attraction only happens through emotional bond, no primate monkey attraction
dysphoria - distress that some transgender people experience due to their gender not aligning with their sex → turns people into eggs
gender fluid - having a gender that changes over time
gynosexual -
heterosexual - being attracted to the same sex
lesbian - women that are homosexual
non-binary - not cis
non-conforming - other word for nonbinary
pansexual - being attracted to personality instead of sex
queer - nonbinary
straight - cis
third gender - social categorization for people who are neither male or female
transgender - sex and gender identity are opposite
transsexual - shouldn’t be used, refers to a transgender person that has undergone gender transformation surgery