Sexual orientation? Gender identity? What's the difference?

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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