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Each of us has a biological sex — whether we are female, male, or intersex.
Our gender is our social and legal status as men or women.
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And sexual orientation is the term used to describe whether a person feels sexual desire for people of the other gender, same gender, or both genders.
Gender - Biological sex - Sexual orientation
Most people know about LGBT, which stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.
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But there are many other terms: queer, questioning, asexual, intersex, asexual, etc. The initialism may be extended to LGBTTQQIAAP or LGBTQQIP2SAA or many others.
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The "+" means that we want to include everyone into the community.
Why use the initialism LGBT+?
Do they mind being labelled?
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