I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.
Interpretation
This quote explains the distinction between gender identity and sexual orientation, emphasizing self-identity and attraction.
Chaz Bono's quote highlights an important distinction in understanding human identity. Gender identity refers to an individual's internal sense of who they are, while sexual orientation pertains to the characteristics of people to whom they are romantically or sexually attracted. This distinction is crucial in discussions about LGBTQ+ rights and personal identity, as it clarifies that being transgender or gender non-conforming is about one's self-perception, whereas sexual orientation is focused on relationships and attraction.
In practice
Discussing LGBTQ+ rights at a community forum.
We are concerned with that curious bunch of nonconformists who explain their participation in negative terms: that bunch of do-gooders that goes under all sorts of names - liberals, leftists, etc. These are the people who argue that they are not responsible for white racism and the country's 'inhumanity to the black man.'
After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.
A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.
We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
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