SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND SEXUAL IDENTITY

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 Sexual orientation is about who you’re attracted to and who you feel drawn to romantically, emotionally, and sexually. It’s different from gender identity. Gender identity isn’t about who you’re attracted to, but about who you are (male, female, genderqueer, etc).




sexual orientation

Sexual orientation is the emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction that a person feels toward another person. Sexuality is an important part for us as humans. Beyond the ability to reproduce, sexuality also defines how we see ourselves and how we physically relate to others.


Sexual orientation is usually divided into these categories:

  • Heterosexual: Attracted to people of the opposite sex
  • Bisexual: Attracted to people of either sex
  • Homosexual: Attracted to people of one's own sex
  • Pansexual: Attracted to people of any gender identity
  • Asexual: Not sexually attracted to other people

How Do People Know Their Sexual Orientation?

Many people discover their sexual orientation as teens or young adults, and in many cases without any sexual experience. For example, someone may notice that their sexual thoughts and activities focus on people of the same sex, or both sexes. But it’s possible to have fantasies or to be curious about people of the same sex without being homosexual or bisexual. And they may not pursue those attractions.

Can Sexual Orientation Be Changed?

Experts agree that sexual orientation isn’t a choice and can’t be changed. Some people who are homosexual or bisexual may hide their sexual orientation to avoid prejudice from others or the shame they may have been taught to feel about their sexuality.

Gender identity


Gender is social and cultural. It’s how your identity relates to society’s idea of what it means to be a woman, man, neither, or a mix of many genders.

Gender identity is your deeply-held inner feelings of whether you’re female or male, both, or neither. Your gender identity isn’t seen by others. Some people identify as a man or a woman. And some have a gender identity that doesn’t fit into one of these genders.

Some people whose biological sex does not match their gender identity may make physical and social changes to express their identified gender. This may involve using a different name, pronouns, clothing, hair or makeup style. It may also involve medical changes, such as taking hormones or getting gender-affirming surgery. This process is called transition.

Gender expression

Gender expression is how a person outwardly shows their gender identity. It includes physical expressions such as a person’s clothing, hairstyle, makeup, and social expressions such as name and pronoun choice.  Some examples of gender expression are masculine, feminine, and androgynous.

Physical Sex

Physical sex is how a person’s body develops and changes over their lifespan. It can be affected by sex chromosomes, hormones, reproductive organs, secondary sex characteristics, and related medical care.


and finally....

Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. Gender identity is the personal sense of one's own gender. Gender identity can correlate with a person's assigned sex at birth or can differ from it.


"The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. it's beautiful, all of the colours, even the colours you can't see. That really fit us as a people because we are all of the colours. Our sexuality is all of the colours. We are all the gender, races, and ages"

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