Sex, Gender & Orientation Articles Listed by Title

Question: I don’t know whether it’s just reconciling being gay and Christian but I’ve always felt like I’m between two worlds, not fitting into being fully male or fully female. My mom informed me a few years ago that when I was born I was taken back into surgery to remove an extra set of…

There are several theories that describe the sexual orientation development of gay and lesbian individuals. Because people are unique and everyone has his or her own story, no one theory describes all people. Some of the factors that influence development, and which are not yet accounted for by theory, include race, religion, culture, gender, and…

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,…

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)….

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…