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Serving Transgender Victims of Sexual Assault
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Transgender 101Sexual Assault in the Transgender CommunityTips For Those Who Serve Victims
June 2014
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Transgender 101
The Numbers The Transgender Community  
Transgender-Specific Issues
 
The Givens
 
The Choices
 
The Nonchoices
Resources Notes

Transgender-Specific Issues

The Givens: Sexual Orientation

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  • Tips for Those Who Serve Victims: Sexuality

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"Sexual orientation" describes a person's attraction (physical, emotional, spiritual, or sexual) to other people of one or more specific genders. The most common sexual orientations—among transgender and non-transgender people alike—are heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and asexual (i.e., not sexually attracted to others). However, just as with gender identity, there are countless individual identities for sexual orientation. Although gender identity and sexual orientation are often conflated and confused, it is important to remember that sexual orientation is distinct from gender identity.