Sexual and gender minorities

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/sexual-and-gender-minorities

1. What does "sexual and gender minorities" mean?
2. Why do some people use the word LGBTQ instead of just "gay" or "transgender"?

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What does "sexual and gender minorities" mean?They are people whose love, gender, or body are different from most people. They can be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, non‑binary, or intersex.
2. Why do some people use the word LGBTQ instead of just "gay" or "transgender"?The word LGBTQ groups many identities together so everyone can feel included. It shows that many kinds of love and gender exist.

Sexual Orientation: An enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, both, neither, or another gender.
Gender Identity: A person's deeply felt internal sense of being male, female, both, neither, or somewhere else along the gender spectrum.
Non-binary: An umbrella term for gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine, existing outside the gender binary.
Aromanticism: A romantic orientation characterized by a lack of romantic attraction or a very low inclination to feel romantic attraction.