Learn More About LGBTQIA+ Topics
Learning about different sexual orientations, gender identities, and romantic feelings can help you better understand the variety of ways people experience and identify their gender and sexuality. Below you’ll find articles and resources to help you understand various LGBTQIA+ identities, find support, and deal with a variety of related concerns.
Featured LGBTQIA+ Articles
Resources for Coming Out
A Guide to Coming Out
It can be scary to take the leap of revealing your sexual orientation or gender identity. Coming out is challenging, but this guide is here to help you navigate uncharted waters.
How to Come Out as Trans
Coming out as transgender is both a scary and exhilarating experience. For many folks, coming out is a life changing moment that allows them to live authentically. It’s important to remember, no matter the reaction or outcome, coming out is about one thing…you!
How to Come Out to Homophobic Parents
Coming out is never easy. But, coming out to homophobic parents can be terrifying, and in some instances, even unsafe. When deciding whether to come out to homophobic parents, consider first how they have they reacted towards or about other queer or LGBTQ+ people. Along with this, there are many other factors to keep in mind when deciding how to come out to homophobic parents.
Understanding Gender & Gender Dysphoria
Gender Dysphoria: Symptoms, Signs, & Treatments
Learn more about gender dysphoria, and what the signs and symptoms are, which include feeling discomfort in their bodies, or uncomfortable with society’s roles placed on genders.
Gender Diverse Youth: Knowing the Signs of Gender Dysphoria in Children & Teens
Children and teens with gender dysphoria will most likely want to be treated as the gender they align with. Learn more about the signs of gender dysphoria in children here.
Sex vs. Gender: Understanding the Difference
While the terms are often used interchangeably, a person’s sex and a person’s gender are two entirely different aspects of their identity. Someone’s sex refers to their biological characteristics, such as their reproductive organs that they are born with. Alternatively, gender encapsulates the social, behavioral, and cultural factors of someone’s sexual identity.
More Articles About LGBTQIA+ Topics
How to Support Your Trans or Gender Nonconforming Youth
Children and youth will learn their first messages about identity and self-worth from caregivers. The most helpful thing you can do to support gender-nonconforming youth is to remind them you love and accept them for who they are unconditionally. This will create a safe and secure relationship for both parents and children. Worrying about what will happen to your trans or gender-nonconforming child and what others will think is a natural fear. However, the love and support youth receive from their parents will improve their resilience when dealing with future hardships.
How Many Genders Are There? Gender Identity List
How Many Genders Are There?
What Does It Mean to Be Asexual?
Asexuality is a sexuality in which a person does not experience typical sexual attraction for others or an innate desire to become involved with a partner(s) sexually. In short, an asexual person does not have a sexual desire toward another person.
