Tag: Sexuality

notesforselflove:

There are more than just two genders.  There are more than just two sexual orientations.  It is time people respected that and educated themselves on the differences.  If someone comes to you and tells you they identify as x y or z and you don’t know what it is look it up.  Educated yourself.  Respect the persons identity.  

I will help you out.

Here are some of the common genders and sexual orientations.

Gender 

 Agender: A person with very little or no connection to a traditional gender.  also gender neutrois, genderless, gender neutral

Bigender: A person who identifies as two genders

Cisgender: A person whose gender identity matches their biological sex assigned at birth

Demigender: Has a partial connection to a certain gender (Demiboy and demigirl)

Gender fluid: A person whose gender identity fluctuates between different genders.

Multigender: A person who identifies as multiple genders

Non binary:  A person who does not identify as simply male or female, can fluctuate between male and female or somewhere between. An umbrella term.

Polygender: Identifies with several genders at the same time, or at different times

Transgender: A person whose gender identity is different than the biological sex assigned at birth.

Trigender:  A person who identifies as three genders

Sexual orientations:

Aromantic (Aro): Person who does not feel romantic attraction to any gender.

Asexual (Ace):  Person who does not feel sexual attraction to any gender.

Androsexual:  Attracted to masculinity 

Bisexual (Bi): Attracted to people of their same gender and a different gender. 

Demiromantic: People who do not feel romantic attraction until an emotional connection is formed. 

Demisexual (Demi): Person who does not feel sexual attraction to others unless they are emotionally connected.

Straight: A person attracted to the opposite gender in a gender binary.  (male attracted to females, female attracted to males) 

Gay/lesbian: Attracted to the same gender

Gynesexual: Attracted to femininity

Pansexual (pan): Attracted to others regardless of their gender.

Polysexual: Attracted to multiple genders

Queer: Umbrella term.  Many queer-identified people believed gender is fluid and are attracted to others regardless of gender.  

Skoliosexual: Attracted to non binary people

Note:  There are more identities, these are just the ones I know of.  If you identify as something I didn’t put on the list, feel free to add it.  

Respect a person’s gender identity and sexual orientation.  If it is a term you are unfamiliar with, educated yourself and either ask the person or look it up.  Don’t mislabel people on purpose.