A Guide to Talking about Sexual and Gender Diversity
Transgender, intersex, cisgender, lesbian, gay, bisexual, LGBTQQ2SIA+ – what do they all mean?
Join Dr. Heather Looy, Professor of Psychology at The King’s University in Edmonton, as she provides definitions, context and guidance to help us understand the terms being used to describe sexuality, gender expression, and gender identity.
We don’t need to get the language exactly right, but we do need to respect how others use language to describe themselves or their experience.
Approximately 24 minutes
This is one in a series of podcasts on understanding diversity created by Dr. Looy.
How do we navigate the bewildering and rapidly-changing rainbows of sexual and gender diversity, and the rainbows of responses to this diversity? In the podcast, Looy guides us through the research and the stories in a spirit of curiosity, compassion, humility, and hospitality. The goal is to provide accessible and digestible information to support our own journeys through this landscape.
You can find the rest of the series here Reading the Rainbows or wherever you listen to podcasts.