1. Components of Sexuality

2. What is Sexuality?
Sexuality is made up of many components, such as culture, ethnicity, gender, and personality traits.
4 Major components
- biological sex
- gender identity
- gender expression
- sexual orientation

3. What is biological sex? The “sexual parts” you are born with!
Includes hormone levels, chromosomes, secondary sex characteristics, external genitalia, and internal reproductive structures

4. What is gender identity?
The gender people believe themselves to be in their hearts and minds
How they feel in terms of male and female and how they choose to show that to others

5. What is gender expression?
Everything we do that communicates our sex/gender to others
Expressed in clothing, hair styles, mannerisms, way of speaking, roles we take in interactions, social sex roles, etc.

6. What is sexual orientation?
An enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes 
 Types of sexual orientation:
heterosexual/straight: attraction to people of the opposite gender
homosexual/gay/lesbian: attraction to people of the same gender
bisexual: attraction to people of either gender

7. Is Sexual Orientation a Choice?
Beliefs of Medical Associations:
“Sexual orientation involves a complex mixture of biology, psychology, and environmental factors”
Genes and hormonal factors may play a role
Sexual orientation is not simply chosen
Other beliefs:
Individuals can choose who they are attracted to

8. What is it like for gay teens?
Expected to be straight/heterosexual
Feel different from peers when friends start talking about romantic feelings, dating, sex
May feel like they have to pretend to be heterosexual in order to fit in
Fears of prejudice,
rejection, etc.
Many experience
acceptance and comfort

9. What is transgender?
When biological sex and gender identity do not match
Caused by a hormone imbalance in the womb
Brain is given the wrong gender imprint

10. Knowledge Check
Identify which component of sexuality is being defined in each of the next slides.

11. What term is being described?
Everything we do that communicates our sex/gender to others
Gender Expression

12. What term is being described?
The sex organs that we are born with
Biological Sex

13. What term is being described?
How we feel in our hearts and minds about whether we are male or female
Gender Identity

14. What term is being described?
A enduring romantic and physical attraction toward a particular gender
Sexual Orientation

15. What term is being described?
When biological sex and gender identity do not match
Transgender

16. Accepting Differences
Part 2

17. Introducing New Students to HMS
Think about:
Interests that these people have in common with you
Someone you would be friends with
Someone you would be interested in dating

18. Likes school most of the time
Rob
Team player
Has a sister
Likes school most of the time
Lots of friends
Good sense of humor

19. Zoe Has a horse Good friend Wants to be a Doctor Great singer
Performs in plays

20. Zack Good student Very tall Great dancer Loves ice cream
Has 4 brothers

21. Carmen Loves animals Wants to be a Vet Loves to text Plays soccer
Speaks 3 languages

22. Rob Born with male body parts:
Biological sex?
Male
Sees himself as a man and expresses himself through clothing, etc. as a man:
Attracted to males:
Sexual orientation?
Gender identity/expression?
Homosexual/gay
Male

23. Zoe Born with male body parts:
Biological sex?
Male
Term that describes mismatch between biological sex and gender identity?
Sees herself as a woman and expresses herself through clothing, etc. as a woman:
Transgender
Gender identity/expression?
Attracted to males:
Female
Sexual orientation?
Heterosexual

24. Zach Born with male body parts:
Biological sex?
Male
Sees himself as a man and expresses himself through clothing, etc. as a man:
Attracted to females:
Sexual orientation?
Gender identity/expression?
Straight/heterosexual
Male

25. Carmen Born with female body parts:
Biological sex?
Female
Sees herself as a woman and expresses herself through clothing, etc. as a woman:
Attracted to females:
Sexual orientation?
Lesbian/gay/homosexual
Gender identity/expression?
Female

26. Critical Thinking Questions
What concerns might Rob and Carmen have as students in this school?
How might Zoe feel coming to school each day?
What can you do to make these students feel more comfortable at school?

27. Think Before You Speak
That’s so gay!

28. In Closing Look beyond the labels that society puts on people.
Take time to discover commonalties and celebrate differences.
No one is just athletic, just intelligent, just funny, just Latino or just Jewish. Likewise, no one is just lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.