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What is Culturally Competent LGBT Therapy

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Hadriel Sam
What is Culturally Competent LGBT Therapy

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)   Memory Plus Program Review   people seek therapy for the same reasons anyone does. In addition, they are impacted by living in a homophobic and transphobic world. Understanding the issues presented within that context is where the LGBT culturally competent therapist comes in. I'd like to first share the definitions I operate from when working with LGBT clients and issues.

Sex - What we are assigned at birth. Believed to be binary (male or female) and to dictate gender expression. In reality, many are born intersexed, and/or experience a gender that is different from their birth-assigned sex.

Gender - Socially constructed, learned via culture. In Western culture typically binary: men (who are masculine) and women (who are feminine). Behavior, appearance, and societal roles are differently defined for each gender. For most people, gender is their sex made visible. For transgender, gender variant or gender non-conforming people this is not the case.

Sexual Orientation - A person's sexual/romantic attraction to members of the same and/or opposite sex. Includes gay, lesbian, bisexual and heterosexual.

 

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