[Music] Plan International is committed to achieving gender equality and fostering an inclusive society we support and empower other lessons in all the diversity regardless of the agenda ability ethnicity or any other identity this includes sexual orientation gender identity gender expression and sex characteristics or Sergius for short but what action is so joyous let's break it down using the soggiest person this helps us understand that each of the individual terms has a different meaning and combined they make up a person's soggiest identity let's start with sexual orientation this is shown as the heart as it's about who you are emotionally physically and sexually attracted to one person might be attracted to someone of a different gender to themselves for example a woman who is heterosexual is attracted to men another person might be attracted to someone of the same gender as themselves for example a woman who is a lesbian is attracted to other women yet another person might be attracted to people of more than one gender for example a woman who is bisexual is attracted to both men and women now let's talk about gender identity this is shown as the brain as it's about how you think and feel about yourself and your gender some people identify as either a woman or a man this is a common way of thinking but actually many people feel that they don't fit with these two genders they might feel they are a mixture of the two or are something else that can't be clearly defined a person's gender identity might reflect the sex that they were assigned at birth or it might not for example a trans woman might have been described as male at birth but now identifies as female now gender expression this involves the whole person because it is about the different ways that you communicate your gender identity to the outside world this could include how you dress what haircut you have how you act or what name universe finally let's talk about sex characteristics we show these as genitalia because they reflect whether someone is biologically and physically female or male as well as your external genitalia sex characteristics include your hormones chromosomes body shape voice speech and body hair a person who is intersex is born with sex characteristics that are not completely male or female they are a combination of both so let's put all the pieces together sexual orientation is about who you are emotionally physically and sexually attracted to gender identity is about how you think and feel about yourself and your gender gender expression is about how you communicate your gender identity to the outside world and sex characteristics are about your biology such as genitalia hormones and body shape each of us has a sexual orientation gender identity gender expression and sex characteristics they combine to make up a unique soggiest identity Sergius is fluid this means that there are lots of different options with no right or wrong way to be also things can change over time our Saji ask identity combines with other factors such as our age where we live whether we are rich of work or whether we have a disability to make who we are it also affects our power in society sometimes people are discriminated or excluded because of their sexual orientation gender identity gender expression and sex characteristics this includes people who identify as less bein gay bisexual trans intersex or questioning known as LGBTI Q+ we all have the right to define and be proud of our soggiest identity there is no need to stereotype or harm people everyone is unique we must all recognize accept and celebrate this diversity for more information see plan - international org