KNOW YOURSELF!
Understanding the fundamentals of Sexual Orientation,
Gender Identity and Expression (SOGIE).
Presented by: Roy Vincent Baricawa
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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To dissect SOGIE.
To explain the complexity
of gender and sexuality.
DISCUSSION
SOGIE
THE
GENDERBREAD
PERSON
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What does SOGIE
means?
What is a genderbread
person? What’s the
relevance of this model to
SOGIE?
SEXUAL
ORIENTATION
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What are the terms
and definitions in
Sexual Orientation?
Our Evolution
GENDER
IDENTITY
GENDER
EXPRESSION
OTHER
TERMS
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What are the terms
and definitions in
Gender Identity?
What are the terms and
definitions in Gender
Expression?
What are the other
terms that are
related to SOGIE?
DISCUSSION
PRONOUNS
SEXUAL
BEHAVIOURS
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What are the
pronouns that
people use?
What are the sexual
behaviours?
APPLYING THE
CONCEPT
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Let’s apply SOGIE and
know yourself more.
DISCUSSION
KEY POINTS
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The vital ideas that
SOGIE wants to let
people know.
WHAT IS SOGIE?
A fluid abbreviation for Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity,
and Expression that refers to all common human
characteristics by explaining the wide spectrum of human
gender and sexuality.
THE FOUNDATION OF SOGIE
SEX
• The biological and physiological
characteristics (chromosomes,
hormones, organs, and other sex
characteristics) that are used by
medical professionals to classify
someone as male, female, or
intersex (a person has a mix of
male and female reproductive
anatomy).
THE FOUNDATION OF SOGIE
GENDER
• The roles, behaviors, expressions,
and identities that are constructed
by the socio-cultural environment.
• Gender is mainly aligned with the
sex of a person.
• Example: A person with a penis is
expected to be a man.
THE GENDERBREAD
PERSON
• A model created by Sam
Killerman that explains the
distinct, disconnected
spectrums of gender and
sexuality.
• The Genderbread has four parts:
Identity, Attraction, Sex, &
Expression.
THE PARTS OF A GENDERBREAD PERSON
IDENTITY
● A person’s internal sense of
themselves regardless of their
anatomy.
● A person’s identity may or
may not match their
biological or legal sex.
THE PARTS OF A GENDERBREAD PERSON
ATTRACTION/ORIENTATION
● A person’s personal, emotional,
sexual, or romantic attraction to
others that may or may not be
based on their sex and gender.
THE PARTS OF A GENDERBREAD PERSON
SEX
● The biological and physiological
characteristics (chromosomes,
hormones, organs, and other sex
characteristics) that are used by
medical professionals to classify
someone as male, female, or
intersex.
THE PARTS OF A GENDERBREAD PERSON
EXPRESSION
● A person’s manifestation of
their gender and sexuality
externally such as through
appearance, mannerism, and
speech.
SEXUAL
ORIENTATION
TERMS AND
DEFINITIONS
HETEROSEXUAL
• It refers to a person who
is personally, emotionally,
sexually, and romantically
attracted to others of their
opposite sex.
•Example: A man who is
attracted to women.
GAY (HOMOSEXUAL MAN)
• It refers to a man who is
personally, emotionally, sexually,
and romantically attracted to other
men.
•Example: A man who is attracted
to men.
LESBIAN
(HOMOSEXUAL
WOMAN)
• It refers to a woman who
is personally, emotionally,
sexually, and romantically
attracted to other women.
•Example: A woman who is
attracted to women.
BISEXUAL
• It refers to a person who is
personally, emotionally, sexually,
and romantically attracted to more
than one gender.
•Example: A man who dates men
and women.
PANSEXUAL
• It refers to a person who is
personally, emotionally, sexually,
and romantically attracted to
either all gender/sex or
regardless of their gender/sex
Example: A woman who dates
someone based on attitudes and
not on gender/sex.
ASEXUAL
• It refers to a person who is not
sexually attracted to anyone.
• An asexual person can still find
someone attractive but not in a
sexual way.
GENDER IDENTITY
TERMS AND
DEFINITIONS
CISGENDER
• It refers to a person whose gender
identity matches the sex that was
assigned at birth
•Example: A person who identify
himself as a man and was assigned
male at birth.
TRANSGENDER
• It refers to a person whose gender
identity and expression do not match
the sex that the person was assigned
and expected at birth.
Example: A person who is assigned
male at birth, and that person
identifies herself as a woman.
GENDER QUEER
• It refers to a person whose gender
identity is neither male nor female,
between, beyond, or a combination
of genders.
AGENDER
• It refers to a person who has no or
refuses to accept gender identities.
GENDER FLUID
• It refers to a person whose
gender identity is fluid or varies
over time.
GENDER NON-BINARY
• It refers to a spectrum of gender
identities that are not exclusive to
masculine and feminine
conventions: outside of the
gender binary.
GENDER
EXPRESSION
TERMS AND
DEFINITIONS
FEMININE
• It refers to a person
that expresses
his/her/their self
based on traditional
concepts that are
associated with
women.
MASCULINE
• It refers to a person
that expresses
his/her/their self
based on traditional
concepts that are
associated with men.
ANDROGYNOUS
• It refers to a person who has
a combination of masculine
and feminine expressions.
CROSS-DRESSING
• It refers to a person who
dresses up in clothing that is
typically worn by people of
the opposite gender.
•This can be a hobby, a
fantasy, or as part of a
person’s work.
GENDER
NONCONFORMING
• It refers to a person whose gender
expression does not conform to
societal expectations and norms.
OTHER SOGIE
TERMS AND
DEFINITIONS
QUEER
• An umbrella term for sexual and gender
minorities.
• A term to describe an identity that has a
fluid or flexible concept of gender and
sexuality, rejecting social norms; it refers
to intersectionality.
• A community term that refers to people
who are not part of the traditional concept
of gender and sexuality.
QUESTIONING
• It refers to a person who is in the
process of exploring their sexual
orientation or gender identity and
expression.
COMING OUT
• The process of self and public disclosure
of a person’s sexual orientation or gender
identity.
CLOSETED
• It refers to a person who hides their
sexual orientation, gender identity and
expression, and/or other aspects
relative to sexuality and gender.
PRONOUNS
BINARY PRONOUNS
She/Her/Herself
Pronouns that are used by
people who identifies herself
as a woman.
He/Him/His/Himself
Pronouns that are used by
people who identifies himself
as a man.
NON-BINARY PRONOUNS
Ze/Hir/Hirs /Hirself
Ze/Zir/Zie/ZirsZirsel
A pronoun that
replaces he pronouns.
A pronoun that
replaces she pronouns.
E/Ey/Em/Eir/Eirs
Eirself/emself
Per/Pers/Perself
A shorter version of the
they pronoun.
A pronoun which
means “person.”
They /Them Their/
Theirs /Themselves
A pronoun that refers to a person
whose identity does not conform to
any gender/sexuality, or a
combination of gender/sexuality.
Name
A pronoun that are
based on a person’s
name.
SEXUAL
BEHAVIORS
WHAT ARE SEXUAL
BEHAVIORS?
• It refers to the behaviors, actions, or
preferences in sexual intercourses.
• A sexual behavior may be a result of their
own preference, or as a person’s means of
living; it is not anchored to their SOGIE.
HETEROSEXUAL SEX
• It refers to a person who can have
sex with the opposite sex.
MALE HAVING SEX WITH
ANOTHER MALE (MSM)
• It refers to a man/male who can have
sex with other men/male.
FEMALE HAVING SEX
WITH ANOTHER FEMALE
(FSF)
• It refers to a woman/female who can
have sex with the another
women/female.
APPLYING THE
CONCEPT OF
SOGIE
SOGIE SPECTRUM
SEX
MALE
FEMALE
INTERSEX
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
HOMOSEXUAL
HETEROSEXUAL
BISEXUAL,
PANSEXUAL,
ASEXUAL
SOGIE SPECTRUM
GENDER IDENTITY
MAN (CIS)
WOMAN (CIS)
GENDER QUEER
TRANSGENDER
GENDER EXPRESSION
MASCULINE
FEMININE
ANDROGYNOUS
GENDER-NEUTRAL
IDENTIFY YOUR SOGIE!
Sexual Orientation
Your sexual
orientation
Gender Identity and
Expression
Your gender
identity
Your gender
expression
KEY POINTS
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Human beings are too complex to keep in
the binary or traditional concept of gender
and sexuality.
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Everyone has SOGIE.
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Being part of the LGBT+ is not an
abnormality.
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SOGIE is an important piece of our
identity.
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Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity,
Gender Expression, and Sexual Behaviors
are independent of each other.
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SOGIE is fluid.
“Your power is
your radical self.
Find it.”
— Aya Chebbi
THANK
YOU!
Resources
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https://www.american.edu/ocl/cdi/upload/pronouns-explained.pdf
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Resources
Johnson, K. (2019). SOGIE Handbook. One Circle Foundation.
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https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/educated/glossary
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http://www.cfyetf.org/education-summit_17_2361847496.pdf
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Resources
Swarthmore. (n.d.). Gender Pronouns. https://www.swarthmore.edu/lgbtq/gender-pronouns
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Resources
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