All information about the LGBTQ+ community needs to be understood

In today’s society, the term LGBTQ+ is no longer strange to many people. However, to understand all the information about the homosexual community is not well understood. What should LGBTQ people pay attention to in terms of health care to ensure safety?

 What is the term LGBTQ+?

LGBTQ+ is the officially recognized name in 1990 of the community of people with special sex. This community includes gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgenders. A term that describes a person’s sexual orientation, meaning they have a romantic, sexual attraction to people of the same sex.

LGBTQ+ stands for 5 words:

• Lesbian.
• Gay
• Bisexual
• Transgender
• Questioning

LGBTQ+ is also used to describe the sexual orientation of a person who has a different sexual and romantic attraction to heterosexuals (attracted by people of the opposite sex).

The US has a statistic that about 3.5% of people identify as gay or bisexual. However, many of them find themselves not 100% gay, straight or bisexual. Some people do not see any sexual attraction to either the same or opposite sex and are asexual.

In the past, when medicine was not yet developed and society was not modern, people from the LGBT community were considered to have mental problems and mental illnesses.

Date of the establishment are countries that recognize LGBT

According to Wikipedia, the term LGBTQ was first used in the 90s, which is the word used to replace the term gay.

Since July 15, 1990, the United Nations has declared that LGBTQ is not a mental illness, and the LGBTQ+ community is officially recognized.

The LGBT community has been growing around the world in recent years. Some countries accept same-sex marriage, making same-sex marriage legal such as:

– Europe has the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, England, Portugal, Spain…

– Asia has Australia, Taiwan…

– In Latin America, there are Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay, and Costa Rica.

– Only South Africa allows same-sex marriage

Definition of LGBTQ groups

According to the above content, it can be seen that LGBTQ includes gay, gay, bisexual, and transgender. Those are also terms that describe a person’s sexual orientation.

It can be sexual orientation with people of the same sex, having feelings for people of the same sex, for example, men love men, women love women. It is also possible that bisexuality refers to a person being romantically and sexually attracted to both sexes. For example, if a person is male they can love another person male or female, if a person is female they can also have feelings for another woman or man…

• Lesbian 

Lesbians are still completely like normal women in terms of sexual organs, and psychological and biological manifestations. However, they are often romantically and sexually attracted to women of the same sex as themselves.

• Gay 

The gays are similar, they only have sexual orientation and emotional vibrations between two men. However, most gays feel attracted to people of the same sex, they do not think of themselves or their partners as female. Therefore, gay men do not have the need for gender reassignment surgery.

• Transgender

This is an LGBT object whose biological expression on the body belongs to this gender but in perception sees themselves as the opposite sex. Because of the feeling of having the wrong body, they always want surgery to change the gender they want.

• Bisexual 

According to the American Psychological Association, hermaphroditic states are all states that result in the atypical development of sexual and physiological characteristics of the body. These states may be related to abnormal characteristics of the internal and external genitalia, sex chromosomes, and sex hormones.

There are two types of hermaphrodites:

– Female pseudo-hermaphroditism: is female, has ovaries but adrenal glands produce a lot of male androgens, so the external genitals are masculinized.

– Pseudo-hermaphroditism in men: The chromosome set is still 46 XY like all other men. However, the genitals are female.

– Complete feminization: A person with testicles and XY chromosomes – is a man, but has a vagina, no uterus, has a fallopian tube but is underdeveloped.

True hermaphroditism: most are female, with both testes and ovaries.

Bisexual people can be sexually attracted to both men and women. They can fall in love with any sex that is more emotional and often has feelings for people of the normal sex.

• Questioning

The letter Q in the LGBTQ+ cluster is an abbreviation of Queer with the meaning of different, extraordinary. That is people whose expressions are different from the common standards and rules of everyone in society. Queer people can be of any gender.

What is the movement to set a 6-color rainbow avatar?

This movement started on June 26, 2015, this is the day the US Congress passed a law legalizing same-sex marriage. On this occasion, Mark Zuckerberg responded by placing an avatar with a 6-color rainbow flag. In addition, many people took to the streets to support this law. Not only the US, but many young people around the world, also responded to this movement by replacing their avatars with a hexagonal image. So why put a hexagonal avatar and not another, it can be explained that the hexagon is the flag representing homosexuals.

Conclusion

Today, the LGBTQ community is famous to many people and has gradually been accepted. Hopefully, this article by Mazeshirt will help you better understand this community. Follow us to know more information.