sexual orientation and sexual identity


What are sexual orientation and sexual identity?

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Nowadays, there is a lot of people that don't understand what sexual orientation and sexual identity are. Some people thinks that they are the same and they couldn't be more wrong! So here I am to try to solve this question for you!

 SEXUAL ORIENTATION

Sexual Orientation describes who you are attracted to, someone of the same sex or someone of the opposite sex or both. However, it is more than just physical attraction to another person. It can also be explained by who meets the needs for you in a romantic relationship.
Research has demonstrated that sexual orientation ranges along a continuum, from only attraction to the opposite sex that you have, to only attraction to same sex as yours. Some sexual orientations are:

Male to Female and Female to Male Attraction: Heterosexual Orientation.

Female to Attraction: Lesbian Orientation.

Male to Male Attraction: Gay Orientation.

Male or Female attracted to both Male/Female: Bisexual Orientation.
  
GENDER IDENTITY

Gender Identity describes what gender you feel like, no matter of the genitalia you were born with.  If you “feel like a girl” but have what is considered ''male genitalia'' (penis), then your gender identity is female even though you are “considered” male by physical standards. There are several gender identities, some of them are:

- Cisgender: It refers to people whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.

- Trans: Is an abbreviation of transgender. Trans people is not aligned with the gender they were determined at birth, where cisgender is aligned with what was determined.

- Genderqueer: It describes someone who plays with that political sense of expressed gender. A genderqueer person may identify as neither gender, both, or a combination. They do not identify with the traditional gender binary.

- Genderfluid: Someone who is genderfluid feels that their gender is fluid and can change and vary over time. They may identify as a man one day, and as femme another day, and move in between these expressions of their gender.

- Non-binary: Is a term for people whose gender is not just male or female. It can have different meanings. In general, this people don’t believe in binary terms. Some of them don’t identify either with ‘’male’’ or ‘’female’’.

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