ATTN: LGBT+ People, can you help me?
I’m part of the LGBT+ community, but I’m not so good at explaining stuff clearly. I need your help. It’s for my mom. She’s a doctor, and she teaches medical students. She has a topic that deals with Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation and all that. She understands the basics, but she’d really benefit from both intellectual explanations AND easy-to-understand ones.
I’ve seen some great visual aids accurately describing gender identity and sexual orientation (and even how it relates to the sex you are born with at birth), but I don’t even know where to begin to find those materials to help my mom present this topic better.
You see, I’m not exactly “out,” but my mom knows. She’s known for years. I’ve just never felt ready to tell her outright. And I am forced to give explanations in an impersonal way and trying to avoid explanation through my own experiences (I’m a bisexual homoromantic that also somehow lies in the asexual spectrum, but that last bit is something I haven’t completely figured out yet). So… yeah. If you guys can reblog this post with links to great material that would be good to present in class (with source, please), it would be awesome . I really want my mom to present this well, as I will feel bad if such a sensitive (AND IMPORTANT) topic does not reach people.
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Also, she told me they have been told lately that patients are now asked for their birth names AND THEN asked how they would like to be called, including pronouns. So that’s a great improvement!
AND… I love how my mom is now so open to talk about transgenders. She used to say she can’t understand it because you’re female if you have female parts and of course that means you’re a girl. She understands homosexuality/bisexuality, but not trans, and when I tried to tell her about the basics earlier, she was very receptive and open-minded about it. She genuinely listened and wanted to understand it. And that makes me so happy. Because I want to deal with gender reassignment surgery in the future, if ever I am lucky enough to be a surgeon. Or just at least something that will allow me to deal with our community. And I’m just so happy my mom is also trying her best to get used to all these changes even though I know it’s hard for her to grasp. She’s never been discriminating towards our community. It just took a while for her to understand how everything is.
And that’s also why I need your help, guys! I want her to understand what this all means - gender identity, sexual orientation, romantic orientation, etc. And the better she understands, the better she’ll be able to present it in class. And that gives more chances for future doctors to understand the community more.
I hope to hear from you guys. Thank you in advance! And I’m sorry for the long post.
