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    This document discusses the history and current understanding of LGBT identities. It notes that same-sex attraction has been documented throughout history, though societal attitudes have changed over time. Ancient Greek and some indigenous cultures accepted certain gender variants, while later Abrahamic religions viewed homosexuality as a sin. In the 19th century, homosexuality was classified as an illness. In 1973, it was removed as a psychiatric disorder. The document also defines terms like transgender, non-binary, intersex and asexual identities that now fall under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. It explains that transgender people experience a mismatch between their gender identity and sex assigned at birth, and outlines the challenging transition process.

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    This document discusses the history and current understanding of LGBT identities. It notes that same-sex attraction has been documented throughout history, though societal attitudes have changed over time. Ancient Greek and some indigenous cultures accepted certain gender variants, while later Abrahamic religions viewed homosexuality as a sin. In the 19th century, homosexuality was classified as an illness. In 1973, it was removed as a psychiatric disorder. The document also defines terms like transgender, non-binary, intersex and asexual identities that now fall under the LGBTQIA+ umbrella. It explains that transgender people experience a mismatch between their gender identity and sex assigned at birth, and outlines the challenging transition process.

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    VIEWS ON LGBT IN HISTORY

    - Sexual and emotional attraction towards the same sex has been recorded throughout history of
    mankind.

    In 600 BCE - they used terms ‘pleasures of the bitten peach and ‘brokeback’.
    JAPAN - they have ‘shudo’ or ‘nanshoku’.
    THAILAND – use the term ‘Kathoey’ to refer to lady boys.
    PHILIPPINES - we have the ‘babaylan’ and the ‘catalonan’ who were mostly woman priests, but some
    are males who lived their lives as women.

    Society Attitude towards homosexuality and other gender variants change through history.

    PEDERASTY- In ancient Greek all males are expected to take younger male lover in a practice.
    BERDACHE – like the indigenous Native American, accepted and celebrated what they called ‘two-
    spirited’ person in a dance to the ‘Berdache”.
    SODOMY- later culture sees it as a “sin” following the Abrahamic Religion, a crime against nature.

    HOMOSEXUALITY was classified as an illness in the 19th century as a basis for them to persecute
    homosexuals, imprison, and commit them to a mental institution.

    1973 APA removed homosexuality as psychiatric disorder or a sickness.

    THE ABC’s OF THE LGBTQIA+


     In an effort towards visibility and inclusion a few letters were added to the LGBT. The term
    “homosexual” sounded too clinical and it no longer adequately represents the diversity within
    the LGBT community.

    Lesbian- women who are emotionally and sexually attracted to women.


    Gay - men who are emotionally and sexually attracted to men.
    Bisexual- man or woman who are emotionally and sexually attracted to men or women
    Transgender- When your gender ident (how you feel) is different from your physical sex(mele/femal).
    Queer- use by people who celebrate all gender identities, can also mean someone who do not want to
    be restricted as Lesbian, Gay, or Bi.
    Intersex- people who were born with sex genital or chromosome patterns that do not fit the typical
    male or female body.
    Asexual- asexual are people who do not feel sexual attraction to anyone, but it does not mean the they
    do not engage in romantic or sexual relationship.
    Allies are straight or heterosexual people who are fighting for LGBT rights.
    Plus + - The plus sign refers to all sexualities that do not fit the LGBTQI spectrum.
    UNDERSTANDING TRANSGENDERISM
    -Society attaches a lot of meanings to our biological sex or physical sex.
    - Parents unknowingly set a GENDER-BASED patterns of raising their children upon knowing the
    biological sex of their babies.

    Who is transgender?
    The APA defines transgender as “an umbrella term for persons whose gender identity,
    gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to
    which they were assigned at birth.”
    This means that transgender person does not feel comfortable in their biological sex.

    Other sexualities under the transgender umbrella term includes:


     FTM – female to male, a person whose biological sex is a female and has transitioned to
    living his life as a male;
     MTF – male to female, a person whose biological sex is a male and has transitioned to
    living her life as a female;
     Crossdressing – some people want to dress as the opposite gender from time to time,
    however, unlike the transsexual, they are comfortable identifying with their biological
    sex;
     Drag King and Queens – these are people who dress as the opposite gender for
    entertainment which they do out of passion or for work; and
     Gender Queer – these are people who feel like their gender does not fit the gender
    binary view that is limited to the male or female category because they feel that these
    are too restrictive.

    The Transitioning Process

    -When a person realizes that he or she may be a transgender, a psychologist can guide the
    person through the transition especially when a person wants to go through permanent
    changes like sex reassignment surgery.
    - Transitioning to another gender is a very challenging process for many transgender people
    because of the social stigma, discrimination, medical cost accessibility to treatment and
    support, oppressive laws in each country and the threat of violence from prejudiced people.

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