Gender, sexual and other kinds of identity often play big parts in our lives and our experiences living in the world, our sense of self, our sexualities, and our interpersonal relationships. Here’s information on gender, including transgender and gender-expansive identities, intersex, gender roles, expression and navigating gender in relationships, sexual orientation, including the asexuality spectrum, and other kinds of sexual identity, as well as other aspects of identity to help you find your own way around your own identity and figure out what it all means for you.
Identity
Highlighted content
Cory
I'm nonbinary and transmasculine, and I'm considering going on HRT. It's completely in the hypothetical phase right now. I'm still thinking about it. I'm 21, by the way. My mom is a doctor with some...
Advice
Wonderings About HRT
- Kelli Dunham RN BSN
Articles and Advice in this area:
Advice
- Heather Corinna
Do you think you or your friends are too young to know if you’re straight? Hint: there’s actually no right answer to that one. If you say yes, people at 14 can know they’re heterosexual, then it only makes sense to posit that if a person can know they are one orientation at that age, they can know…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
The next thing to do after a family member says that to you is simply to acknowledge what they have disclosed and honor that it can be scary to do that – such as by saying something like, “I’m glad you felt safe telling me about your bisexuality.” You can also reassure them that until they’re ready…
Article
- Heather Corinna
It’s typically assumed that sex and gender are the same. They’re not. What’s gender all about, then? What is the range of gender and gender identity, and how does gender impact our lives and how we live them?
Advice
- Heather Corinna
Any kind of sex between people of the same gender is as normal as sex between people of different genders as far as I am concerned. In other words, it is normal – and has always been relatively common – for people of all genders and stripes to have sexual intimacy or to explore sexuality together…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
This is as fine a place to ask as any. :) You know, this is the case with most people with any kind of emotional maturity who knows that people are more than two-dimensional and sex is about people, not appearances or our ideas about people based on appearance. Of course, we can look at someone in a…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
What if it’s not about her coming out of her shell, but about the fact that she is NOT strongly attracted to girls, or attracted to girls at all? A person’s gender identity doesn’t determine their sexual orientation. In other words, very “girly” girls can be and are attracted to women (or people of…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
It is okay to have a desire to explore sex with the same gender; it is okay to have a desire to explore sex with people of a different gender. We also don’t need to view any of that exploration as an “experiment,” nor is same-gender sex somehow more of an experiment than mixed-gender sex is. I mean…
Advice
- Heather Corinna
Hey there, Hartley. We DO know – experientially and statistically speaking – that young adults do tend to be less selective when it comes to their attractions and/or partners than older adults. Why is that? That’s where we don’t have such solid answers. By all means, you guys do have a lot more…
Advice
- Susie Tang
Hi Miguel, it looks like you’re fighting some serious peer pressure. Despite all of our progress towards gender equality and rights, we still have some pretty wacked double-standards in our society. There’s the double-standard that says that women who have lots of sex are whores, and men who abstain…
Article
- Jacob Mirzaian
I want to be accepted for who I am, not what I am. I don’t want to be straight if it’s just a VIP pass for friends.
