SOWK 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Bigender, Sex Assignment, Sexual Orientation

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOWK 1000
• Professor: Alexandra Wright

Document Summary

Explore and discuss social work practice with people who have sexual and emotional relationships with people of the same sex or gender expression or identity differing from the identity assigned at birth. Provide an overview of human rights and social justice issues for people who have sexual and emotional relationships with people of the same sex. Explore and discuss strategies and resources for change. Gender expression individual expression of gender (butch, femme, masculine, etc. ) Gender identity self-identification/subjective sense of self (female, male, bigender, third gender, etc. Transgender diversity of gender identity and expression (drag queens and kings, cross- dressers, transvestites, etc. ) Transgender people experience their gender identity or expression as different from their assigned sex. Sexual orientation a characteristic that describes the people they are drawn to for satisfying intimate affection and sexual needs (homo, hetero, bi, pan, asexual, etc. ) Sexual orientation encompasses sexuality, emotionality and social functioning.