THIS presentation presents a number of slides concerning gender identity, sexual orientation and gender identity disorder.

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Transgender
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3. What do they
mean?
Gender Identity: How we identify our self based on
psychological identification.
Gender Expression: The way we express our gender
through clothing, mannerisms, and chosen names
Gender Non-Conforming: defined most simply as
behaviour and appearance that conforms to the social
expectations for one’s gender.

4. What do they
mean?
Transgender: a term used to describe people whose
gender identity differs from the sex the doctor marked on their
birth certificate. This can represent transsexuals, gender
queers, and people who identify with more than one gender.
Transsexual: A person who lives and/or identifies as a
different sex from the one assigned at birth. This process of
changing gender presentation can represent changing their gender
with hormone treatments or surgery.

5. Sexual Orientation
What if you were attracted to someone of the same sex?
What if you were attracted to both sexes?
Do Societal norms make it right or wrong?
Does religion have a right to restrict or change the way we
think of sexual orientation?

6. Asexual: someone that does not experience sexual attraction
either for a period of time or ever.
Bisexual: when someone is romantically/sexually attracted to
both men and woman, though not necessarily at the same
time.
Gay/Homosexual: when you are attracted
romantically/sexually to someone of the same sex this is often
used exclusively for males but can be used when referring to
woman.
Sexual Orientation

7. Lesbian: women who are attracted
romantically/sexually to women.
Pansexual: when you are attracted to people across a
range of genders often used to describe a transgender,
gender queer, or people that are attracted to transgender
or gender queers.
Straight/Heterosexual: when you are attracted
romantically/sexually to the opposite sex
Sexual Orientation

8. What is Gender Identity
Disorder (GID)
---is a condition in which a person has been assigned one
gender (usually at birth), but identifies as belonging to
another gender, or does not conform with the gender role
their respective society prescribes to them.

9. Identifying Gender Identity
Disorder
• 1) There must be evidence of a strong and persistent cross-gender
identification. . This cross-gender identification must not merely be a
desire for any perceived cultural advantages of being the other sex;
• 2) There must also be evidence of persistent discomfort about one's
assigned sex or a sense of inappropriateness in the gender role of that
sex;

10. Identifying Gender Identity
Disorder
• 3) The individual must not have a concurrent physical intersex
condition (e.g., androgen insensitivity syndrome or congenital
adrenal hyperplasia); and
• 4) There must be evidence of clinically significant distress or
impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of
functioning.

11. Treatment of Gender Identity
Disorder
Counselling
 Sex Reassignment Therapy Include hormonal
treatment and surgery
Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) consists of
procedures which transsexual women and men undergo in
order to match their anatomical sex to their gender identity.

12. Treatment of Gender Identity
Disorder
Genital Reassignment Surgery (GRS)
refers only to surgeries that correct genital anatomy
Hormone Therapy may also be helpful.
“Transgender Transition Services”
Speech Therapy

13. Issues of Gender Identity and
Sexual Orientation
What if you are attracted to someone
of the same sex?
What if you are attracted to Males
and Females?
Coming out to yourself and your family and friends and
the world
Religious beliefs
The emotional impact of dealing with your feelings, the
feelings of your family, the world and societal
expectations
Do we have right to happiness and social/emotional well
being regardless of our sexual orientation

14. Issues of Gender Identity and
Sexual Orientation
Many people in today’s society mock this or think
that transsexual people are not normal consider the
following:
You are born one sex per your genitals but psychologically you are the
opposite sex
You are made fun of because you look like a particular sex but you act like
another sex
It is difficult for transsexual people to access many services such as: rape
crisis centers, emergency medical care, homeless or violence shelters,
these are all segregated by sex.

15. References:
• http://www.slideshare.net/brouse99/gender-identity-and-sexual-
orientation-beth-rouse-womens-health-issues?qid=9a9ae46d-2e21-
4b1c-b9f0-880f5b241981&v=&b=&from_search=2
• http://kinseyconfidential.org/gender-nonconformity/
• http://www.glaad.org/transgender/transfaq
• http://www.psychologistanywhereanytime.com/sexual_problems_p
yschologist/psychologist_gender_identity_issues.htm