Gender identification
The Star Press
By BEA L. SOUSA
02 September, 2010
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100902/OPINION03/9020356 (http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20100902/OPINION03/9020356)
To begin with, gender identity is not the same as sexual orientation (whether we are heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual). Transgender people were assigned a gender at birth that, for a wide variety of reasons, doesn't fit who they feel they are. They know they are in the wrong body.