PERSONALITY
People are understood to have varying levels of personality factors that drive our thoughts and behavior. Discover why people may react, behave, and see things differently than others in the same situation.
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Get a “freakishly accurate” description of who you are and why you do things the way you do. |
Enneagram describes patterns in how people interpret the world and manage their emotions. |
Understand which strengths you rely on most, how your strengths manifest in your daily life, and how to make the most of your natural gifts.
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Discover everything you need to know about what makes you, you.
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Understand your values, your motivations, and how you appear to others.
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While there aren't any hard and fast rules about which types work together and which don't, you can use the principles of personality type to figure out exactly what type of mate you're looking for.
There’s a lot more to being male, female, or any gender than the sex assigned at birth. Your biological or assigned sex does not always tell your complete story.
SEX
Assigned sex is a label that you’re given at birth based on genitals.
Some people’s sex doesn’t fit into male or female, called intersex.
Some people’s sex doesn’t fit into male or female, called intersex.
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A male organism is the physiological sex that produces the gamete known as sperm. A male gamete can fuse with a larger female gamete, or ovum, in the process of fertilization.
Of or denoting the sex that can bear offspring or produce eggs, distinguished biologically by the production of gametes (ova) which can be fertilized by male gametes.
Intersex is a general term used for a variety of situations in which a person is born with reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the boxes of “female” or “male.”
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The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.
Each culture has beliefs and informal rules about how people should act based on their gender.
Gender is how society thinks we should look, think, and act as girls and women and boys and men.
Gender is how society thinks we should look, think, and act as girls and women and boys and men.
Understandings of gender continually evolve. In the course of a person’s life, the interests, activities, clothing and professions that are considered the domain of one gender or another evolve in ways both small and large.
Gender roles in society means how we’re expected to act, speak, dress, groom, and conduct ourselves based upon our assigned sex.
It is often helpful to explore and consider the gender messages you have absorbed as a child and even later in life. Take a few minutes to reflect and acknowledge the messages about gender that you may have without realizing.
Clothing, appearance, and behaviors can all be ways to express your gender identity.
Your gender identity is how you feel inside and how you express those feelings.
Your gender identity is how you feel inside and how you express those feelings.
The vocabulary of gender continues to evolve and there is not universal agreement about the definitions of many terms. Nonetheless, here is some working language and examples of frequently used (and misused) terms. We offer them as a starting place for dialogue and understanding, which begins by clarifying how we are using various terms, rather than asserting that they represent the final or only definition of the various terms.
Most of us have had little or no education about gender. So it's important to understand and address some common myths many of us hold about gender, children and youth.
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There’s more to gender than just male and female. Learn about trans identities.
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CISGENDER
https://www.itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2012/11/things-you-can-do-today-for-social-justice/
https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/terminology/sexual-and-gender-identity-terms.htm
https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/sexuality-definitions.pdf
https://www.tolerance.org/topics
https://thesafezoneproject.com/resources/
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/sexual-orientation
https://www.healthline.com/health/different-types-of-sexuality#d-l
https://www.itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2016/11/rest-columns-shadows-healthy-relationship-model/
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/transgender/transgender-identity-terms-and-labels
https://transstudent.org/GENDER/
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/teens/lgbtq
https://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/terminology/sexual-and-gender-identity-terms.htm
https://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/sexuality-definitions.pdf
https://www.tolerance.org/topics
https://thesafezoneproject.com/resources/
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/sexual-orientation
https://www.healthline.com/health/different-types-of-sexuality#d-l
https://www.itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2016/11/rest-columns-shadows-healthy-relationship-model/
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/gender-identity/transgender/transgender-identity-terms-and-labels
https://transstudent.org/GENDER/
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/teens/lgbtq
SEXUALITY
The life stories of LGBTQ+ pioneers and elders, famous and unsung. Explore their full-length interviews,
Learning about your own LGBTQ identity and coming out in a heteronormative and cisnormative world can be challenging. To help with the coming out process, we’ve compiled some key things for you to think about and consider as you begin to share your identities around sexuality and gender.
ALLYSHIP - https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/transgender.pdf
SPIRITUALITY
INTERESTS