LGBTQ+: What it means and other important terms

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Hey everyone.
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It's Hadar.
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Thank you so much for joining me.
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The month of June, which is when this video is released, is pride
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month, where the world's LGBTQ+ communities come together and
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celebrate the freedom to be themselves.
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LGBTQ+ pride is the promotion of the self affirmation, dignity, equality,
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and increased visibility of people who identify themselves with this community.
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And why pride?
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As opposed to shame and social stigma.
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LGBTQ+ is an acronym, meaning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer or
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Questioning, and the '+' stands for other specific sexual or gender minorities.
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We'll talk about what goes into that in just a minute.
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But before that, I'd like to share relevant terminology
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that might be helpful.
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First, biological sex.
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Biological sex is assigned at birth, based on anatomy, chromosomes, or hormones.
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And there we have male and female.
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We also have gender identity.
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It's really how you feel inside.
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And that's usually when we use man or woman.
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Sexual orientation is basically who you like, who you are attracted to.
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And here we have heterosexual or homosexual.
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We can also have bisexual.
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A cisgender is a person whose gender identity corresponds with their birth sex.
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So for example, a person who identifies as a man and whose biological
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sex is male is a cisgender man.
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Now, the cisgender man could be heterosexual, could be homosexual
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still because he identifies as man, and he was born as a male, then he
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would be considered a cisgender man.
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Same goes for a cisgender woman.
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So from here, let's talk about the LGBTQ acronym.
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L stands for lesbian.
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A lesbian is a female who experiences romantic love or
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sexual attraction to other females.
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G (LGBTQ) - G stands for gay.
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Now, gay has two meanings.
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The narrow meaning: the narrow meaning means a male who experiences romantic
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love or sexual attraction to other males.
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But we also have a broader meaning for the word gay, which means a male or a female
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who experiences romantic love or sexual attraction to people of their own sex.
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B is bisexual.
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Bisexual is attraction to more than one gender.
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So it could be a man or a woman who is attracted to both men and women.
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T stands for transgender.
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Transgender is an umbrella term for people whose gender identity differs
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from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.
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And here we can have a trans woman and a trans man.
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Now, it's not the same.
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Transgender is not necessarily the same thing as transsexual, which
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is a transgender person who desires to also align their body with
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their sexual and gender identity.
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Which generally includes medical procedures.
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Q stands for queer.
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Queer is an umbrella term for sexual and gender minorities that
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are not heterosexual or cisgender.
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Now, the letter Q can also refer to questioning - the questioning of
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one's gender, sexual identity, sexual orientation, or all three - is a
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process of exploration by people who may be unsure, still exploring and
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concerned about applying a social label to themselves for various reasons.
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So, all of the things that we talked about are labels.
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But remember that all of this is a spectrum.
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And some people may find themselves on different places on the spectrum or might
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be moving from one place to another.
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And this is why Q helps them identify themselves without putting a specific
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label on who they are, how they identify themselves, and who they're attracted to.
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Now, listen, the most important thing is to be respectful and use
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the terms that each person prefers.
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So we talked about LGBTQ, but there's also the plus (+). The plus stands for
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other communities and gender identities.
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For example: pansexual, asexual, intersex, androgynous,
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non-binary, genderqueer, and more.
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So, if you want to educate yourself and learn more about those communities and
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gender identities, I'm going to link more information in the description below.
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I hope this video helped you understand better some of the terms we discussed.
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I'm sure you were exposed to a lot of these terms.
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And sometimes you have to make sense of all of it because there's a lot.
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And sometimes, if you don't learn it properly, it's not always clear.
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So, that's it.
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And to all my LGBTQ+ community members and allies, I wish you a happy pride month.
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Love is love.
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Have a beautiful rest of the day.
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I love you all.
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And I'll see you next week in the next video.
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