April 2023
Brookville Schools Issue
04/29/2023
A topic that missed the May, 2023, GayDayton publication date that is genuinely boiling in Brookville is an issue with their school board which voted to repeal all protections for LGBTQ+ Staff and Students giving a full pass to open bullying and oppression. I encourage you to let this school board know of your feelings on this matter as it can only drive harmful tendencies.
Dayton Daily News article - April 28, 2023
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/bellbrook-school-board-removes-discrimination-protections-for-lgbtq-staff-and-students-from-policy/XNTSHPBFANHMVATLSOTVJH5BHU/
Dayton Daily News article - April 28, 2023
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/bellbrook-school-board-removes-discrimination-protections-for-lgbtq-staff-and-students-from-policy/XNTSHPBFANHMVATLSOTVJH5BHU/
LGBTQ+ Alphabet Soup!
04/29/2023
LESBIAN
A woman whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction is to other women. Some lesbians may prefer to identify as gay or as gay women.
GAY
The adjective describes people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions are to people of the same sex. Sometimes lesbian is the preferred term for women.
BISEXUAL
A person who can form enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions to those of the same gender or opposite gender. People may experience this attraction in differing ways and degrees over their lifetime. Bisexual people need not have had specific sexual experiences to be bisexual; they need not have had any sexual experience at all to identify as bisexual.
TRANSGENDER
An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. People under the transgender umbrella may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms— including transgender or nonbinary. Some transgender people are prescribed hormones by their doctors to bring their bodies into alignment with their gender identity. Some undergo surgery as well. But not all transgender people can or will take those steps, and a transgender identity is not dependent upon physical appearance or medical procedures.
QUEER
An umbrella adjective used by some people whose sexual orientation is not exclusively heterosexual or straight. This umbrella term includes people who have nonbinary, gender-fluid, or gender nonconforming identities. Once considered a pejorative term, queer has been reclaimed by many LGBTQIA+ people to describe themselves; however, it is not a universally accepted term even within the LGBTQIA+ community.
QUESTIONING
Sometimes, when the Q is seen at the end of LGBT, it can also mean questioning. This term describes someone who is questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity.
INTERSEX
An adjective used to describe a person with one or more innate sex characteristics, including genitals, internal reproductive organs, and chromosomes, that fall outside of traditional conceptions of male or female bodies. Do not confuse having an intersex trait with being transgender. Intersex people are assigned a sex at birth — either male or female — and that decision by medical providers and parents may not match the gender identity of the child. Not all intersex folks identify as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
ASEXUAL
The adjective describes a person who does not experience sexual attraction. Sometimes shortened to “ace,” it is an umbrella term that can also include people who are demi-sexual, meaning they do experience some sexual attraction; gray-sexual, meaning those who may not fit the strictest definition of the word asexual; and a-romantic, meaning they experience little to no romantic attraction and/or has little to no desire to form romantic relationships.
NONBINARY
The adjective describes a person whose gender is not male or female and uses many different terms to describe themselves. Other terms include genderqueer, a-gender, bigender, gender-fluid, and more. None of these terms mean exactly the same thing – but all speak to an experience of gender that is not simply male or female.
+ PLUS
The ‘plus’ is used to signify all of the gender identities and sexual orientations that letters and words cannot yet fully describe.
Pansexual
Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others.
Demisexual
A Demisexual person experiences sexual feelings and attraction only after developing a close emotional relationship and not on the basis of first impressions, physical characteristics, etc.
A woman whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attraction is to other women. Some lesbians may prefer to identify as gay or as gay women.
GAY
The adjective describes people whose enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions are to people of the same sex. Sometimes lesbian is the preferred term for women.
BISEXUAL
A person who can form enduring physical, romantic, and/or emotional attractions to those of the same gender or opposite gender. People may experience this attraction in differing ways and degrees over their lifetime. Bisexual people need not have had specific sexual experiences to be bisexual; they need not have had any sexual experience at all to identify as bisexual.
TRANSGENDER
An umbrella term for people whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from what is typically associated with the sex they were assigned at birth. People under the transgender umbrella may describe themselves using one or more of a wide variety of terms— including transgender or nonbinary. Some transgender people are prescribed hormones by their doctors to bring their bodies into alignment with their gender identity. Some undergo surgery as well. But not all transgender people can or will take those steps, and a transgender identity is not dependent upon physical appearance or medical procedures.
QUEER
An umbrella adjective used by some people whose sexual orientation is not exclusively heterosexual or straight. This umbrella term includes people who have nonbinary, gender-fluid, or gender nonconforming identities. Once considered a pejorative term, queer has been reclaimed by many LGBTQIA+ people to describe themselves; however, it is not a universally accepted term even within the LGBTQIA+ community.
QUESTIONING
Sometimes, when the Q is seen at the end of LGBT, it can also mean questioning. This term describes someone who is questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity.
INTERSEX
An adjective used to describe a person with one or more innate sex characteristics, including genitals, internal reproductive organs, and chromosomes, that fall outside of traditional conceptions of male or female bodies. Do not confuse having an intersex trait with being transgender. Intersex people are assigned a sex at birth — either male or female — and that decision by medical providers and parents may not match the gender identity of the child. Not all intersex folks identify as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community.
ASEXUAL
The adjective describes a person who does not experience sexual attraction. Sometimes shortened to “ace,” it is an umbrella term that can also include people who are demi-sexual, meaning they do experience some sexual attraction; gray-sexual, meaning those who may not fit the strictest definition of the word asexual; and a-romantic, meaning they experience little to no romantic attraction and/or has little to no desire to form romantic relationships.
NONBINARY
The adjective describes a person whose gender is not male or female and uses many different terms to describe themselves. Other terms include genderqueer, a-gender, bigender, gender-fluid, and more. None of these terms mean exactly the same thing – but all speak to an experience of gender that is not simply male or female.
+ PLUS
The ‘plus’ is used to signify all of the gender identities and sexual orientations that letters and words cannot yet fully describe.
Pansexual
Pansexuality is sexual, romantic, or emotional attraction towards people regardless of their sex or gender identity. Pansexual people may refer to themselves as gender-blind, asserting that gender and sex are not determining factors in their romantic or sexual attraction to others.
Demisexual
A Demisexual person experiences sexual feelings and attraction only after developing a close emotional relationship and not on the basis of first impressions, physical characteristics, etc.