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Plan International is committed to achieving gender equality
and fostering an inclusive society
we support and empower adolescents in all their diversity
regardless of their gender, ability, ethnicity,
or any other identity.
This includes sexual orientation,
gender identity,
gender expression, and sex characteristics
or SOGIESC for short.
But what actually is SOGIESC?
Let's break it down using the SOGIESC person.
This helps us understand that each of the individual terms
has a different meaning and combined
they make up a person's SOGIESC 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 you use.
Finally, let's talk about sex characteristics.
We show these as genitalia because they reflect whether
wether 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