Sex, Gender & Orientation Educational Videos

Press Release – Aug 5, 2009 Practitioners Should Avoid Telling Clients They Can Change from Gay to Straight TORONTO -The American Psychological Association adopted a resolution Wednesday stating that mental health professionals should avoid telling clients that they can change their sexual orientation through therapy or other treatments. The “Resolution on Appropriate Affirmative Responses to…

ASSIGNED SEX AT BIRTH Male, Female, or IntersexDependent upon external genitalia, reproductive organs, and sex chromosomes. GENDER Man, Woman, Genderqueer, Non-binary, Other Cisgender – Gender matches sex assigned at birth Transgender – Gender does not match sex assigned at birth Gender Identity – The inherent, internal sense of one’s own gender Gender Expression – How…

Overview Historically, when sex education was introduced to the general public, content was focused on puberty education for cisgender people, heterosexual sex, pregnancy prevention, and reduction of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). During that time, there was a great deal of stigma and discrimination associated with being lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA)….

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Soon after Alfred Kinsey began tabulating the sex data he was collecting in the 1940’s it became obvious that several new modes of analyzing it would be necessary, both for clarity and to avoid confusion. For instance, to show how easy and feasible homosexual contacts are for “the human animal” as Kinsey liked to say,…

The Pink Triangle The pink triangle, now a gay pride and gay rights symbol, was originally used to denote homosexual men as a Nazi concentration camp badge. The pink triangle, (German: Rosa Winkel), was sewn onto the clothes by the Nazis before and during World War II (1939-45) to identify male prisoners in concentration camps…