What is the difference between transgender and gay

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This report is organized into seven chapters. Chapter 2 provides context for understanding LGBT health status by defining sexual orientation and gender self, highlighting historical events that are pertinent to LGBT health, providing a demographic overview of LGBT people in the United States, examining barriers to their care, and using the example of HIV/AIDS to illustrate some important themes. Chapter 3 addresses the topic of conducting analyze on the health of LGBT people. Specifically, it reviews the major challenges associated with the manner of research with LGBT populations, presents some commonly used research methods, provides information about available statistics sources, and comments on best practices for conducting research on the health of LGBT people.

As noted, in preparing this state, the committee found it helpful to discuss health issues within a life-course framework. Chapters 4, 5, and 6 review, respectively, what is known about the current health status of LGBT populations through the life course, divided into childhood/adolescence, early/middle adulthood, and later adulthood. Each of these chapters addresses the fo

Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Definitions

Sexual orientation

An inherent or immutable enduring emotional, romantic or sexual attraction to other people. Note: an individual’s sexual orientation is independent of their gender identity.

Gender identity

One's innermost concept of self as male, female, a blend of both or neither – how individuals perceive themselves and what they call themselves. One's gender identity can be the same or unlike from their sex assigned at birth.

Gender expression

External appearance of one's gender individuality, usually expressed through conduct, clothing, body characteristics or voice, and which may or may not conform to socially defined behaviors and characteristics typically linked with being either masculine or feminine.

Transgender

An umbrella phrase for people whose gender identity and/or expression is different from cultural expectations based on the sex they were assigned at birth. Being transgender does not imply any specific sexual orientation. Therefore, trans people may identify as straight, gay, lesbian, double attraction, etc.

Gender transition

The process by which some people try to more closely

What is the Difference between Gay and Transgender?

This may be a very basic share for some and if so I invite you to skip it, but it is one of the most frequent look for requests that land people on my blog, so I thought I should write a very eliminate answer to this question. (I wrote previously about the difference between some experiences of gay and transgender peoplehere.)

OK, to initiate with let’s define some terms.

‘Gay’, ’Lesbian’ and ‘Bisexual’ refer to sexual orientation, in other words – who you are attracted to.   A man who is attracted to other men could identify as ‘Gay’ or ‘Homosexual’.

‘Transgender’ is often used to intend ‘Transsexual’(Transgender refers to a larger group of people than that) has to do with one’s gender identity.  Gender Identity is how one identifies in terms of maleness or femaleness.  For a transsexual or transsexual person one’s gender identity is unlike from what one might expect given ones natal or biological sex (‘Sex’ here refers to one’s biological sex – how one was born.)  Gender is not always the same as one’s sex.  ‘Gender Identity’ is how one feels inside, and Sexual Orientation is who one is attracted to vis-à-vis you

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It’s easy to get this confused, particularly because T is included in the LGBTQ+ acronym (T standing for “Transgender”). The key is to remember that transgender is referring to someone’s gender identity and not their sexuality orientation. Transgender people can be gay, straight, pansexual, homosexual, asexual, or any other sexual orientation (just fancy cisgender people!).

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