What is the difference between sex, gender, and sexual orientation?
They are three totally separate issues. Your sexual identity is your biological sex, a male or female body. Your gender identity is what is in your mind – a sense of being male or female or in the case of many TG people, having a dual-gender nature. Simply put, your sex ID is what’s between your legs and your gender ID is what’s between your ears. For most people, their sex ID and their gender ID. For TG people, there is at least some variance between the two. Sexual orientation is simply what sex you are attracted to for physical and relationship partnering and is basically unrelated to your sense of gender.
