BSED-ENGLISH 2A

Group 13
Christian Novhem V. Oberio
Windy Balili

Lesson 13:
LGBT PSYCHOLOGY
Lesson Objectives:
1. Discuss LGBT history and relevant LGBT terms; and
2. Explain the importance of these terms.

Introduction:
• Labels are powerful words to discriminate and oppress people.
• The use of ‘Aryan race’ as a word which means ‘superior’ (by the German
• Nazi). ‘Jews and ‘homosexual’; to justify their mass murder – what they
called as ‘inferior’ race.
• Use of language; empower people to claim their space in the society –
political sphere.

Views on LGBT in History

In china 600 BCE, they use the terms pleasures of the bitten peach and
brokeback.

-In Japan, ‘shudo’ or ‘nanshoku’.

-In Thailand, ‘Kathoey’ – referring to lady boys.

•-In the Philippines, ‘babaylan’ and ‘catalonan’ – mostly women priests, but some are males who
lived their lives as women.
-In ancient Greek, all males are expected to take on a younger male lover
called ‘pederasty’.

- ‘Two-spirited’ person in a dance to the ‘Berdache’ (Indigenous Native

American)

- ‘Abrahamic Religion’ which branded it as sodomy, a crime against nature. (Lev. 18:22)
-Homosexuality was classified as an illness in the 19 th century, it is a basis for them to be legally
execute.

Example: Alan Turing the father of modern computing was persecuted in 1952 for homosexual
acts.
-In 1973 APA removed homosexuality as psychiatric disorder.

THE ABC’s of the LGBTQIA+

Terms:
● Lesbian – women who are emotionally & sexually attracted to women.
● Gay – men are emotionally & sexually attracted to men.
● Bisexual – man/woman who are emotionally & sexually attracted to men/women.
● Transgender – when your gender identity is different from your physical sex
(male/female)
● Queer – used by people who celebrated all gender identities, or someone who do not want
to be restricted as lesbian, gay, or bi
● Intersex – people who were born with sex genitals or chromosomes patterns that do not
fit the typical male or female body.
● Asexual – are people who do not feel sexual attraction to anyone.
Ally – are straight individuals/heterosexual people who are fighting for LGBTQI rights
● Plus + - refer to all sexualities that do not fit in the LGBTQI spectrum
Other Terms of human sexuality:
• Androgynous – people whose gender expression (their physical
appearance) may or may not be distinctly male or female.
• Gender – your internal sense of being masculine or feminine or neither.
• Gender identity – how you feel, man, woman, or neither.
• Gender expression – how you express your sense of being male or
female or neither (e.g., hairstyle, clothes, etc.)
• Sexual orientation – your emotional and sexual attraction to a person.
• Cisgender – when your gender identity matches with the sex you are assigned at birth.
 • Non-binary – people who do not feel a boy or a girl; they may feel like they are both or
neither, so sometimes they use the pronouns they, the, and theirs.

Understanding Transgederism
Transgender
-refer to people whose gender identity is different from their biological sex and they may want
to change their body, so it resembles how they feel about their gender identity.
Other term includes:
FTM – female to male, a person whose biological sex is female and has transitioned to living his
life as a male.
MTF – male to female, a person whose biological sex is male and has transitioned to living his
life as a female
Crossdressing – some people want to dress as the opposite gender from time to time.
Drag kings & queens – these are people who dress as the opposite gender for entertainment
which they do out of passion or for work.
Gender queer – these are people who feel like their gender does not fit the gender binary view
that is limited to the male or female category because they feel that these are too restrictive.
The Transition Process
• When a person realizes that he or she maybe transgender, a PSYCHOLOGIST can guide,
especially when someone wants to go through permanent changes like sex reassignment.
• There is transgender who cannot have or do not want to have hormonal replacement
therapy.
• Some country, allow for transgender people to change their legal gender from male to
female or female to male.
• Philippines, still lack the laws and medical capacity to support transgender people in
living their full potential.

“The proper use of pronouns, he or she, should be observed when talking to transgender person
to show respect as a decent human being. When a person is clearly presenting herself as female
by the way she dresses and carry themselves, it is safe to assume that they want to use “she” and
“her”. The same goes with transgender man. However, it is good practice to ask them for their
preferred pronoun instead of assuming but do so in polite way.”