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Title: Identity: Terminology
Post by: Shana A on January 02, 2013, 11:42:51 AM
Tue Jan 01, 2013 at 03:30 PM PST
Identity: Terminology

by rserven
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/01/1175449/-Identity-Terminology (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/01/1175449/-Identity-Terminology)

It is the beginning of a new year. 

I often get ideas for new diaries from comments left in past diaries.  And sometimes I am reminded that I need to touch base with the beginning material in this course of study once again...because there are always new students joining in.

So the following is going to be boring for some of you but it will be, one hopes, enlightening to others.

bigjacbigjacbigjac commented in a recent diary:

        'L'esbian
        'G'ay
        'B'isexual
        'T'ransgender
        'T'ranssexual
        'T'wo-spirited
        'Q'ueer
        'Q'uestioning
        'I'ntersex
        'A'sexual
        'A'lly

    The terms I'm not clear on are:

    transsexual,
(how is that different from transgender?)

    two-spirited

    queer
(how is that different from lesbian or gay?)

    intersex

    I think I understand the others.

    But, 
if you write a diary,
 carefully explaining all those terms,
 that might be a reliable reference.