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Gender is one’s intrinsic sense of who they are (man, woman, nonbinary, gender queer, etc.), while one’s sex is physical anatomy and is assigned at birth. Sexual orientation (lesbian, gay, bisexual, etc.) reflects who a person loves and wants to have romantic relationships with. The LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and or queer or questioning, intersex and asexual or allied) population includes sexual and gender identity minorities, but it should be emphasized that these are separate aspects of a person’s identity. The gender unicorn (Fig. 11.1) illustrates the spectrums of gender and sexuality [1]. It is estimated that 4.5% of the US population identifies as LGBTQIA in the United States and 1.4% of people identify as gender expansive, or transgender [2].
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Thadikonda, K.M., Gast, K.M., Chaiet, S.R. (2021). Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Surgery. In: Telem, D.A., Martin, C.A. (eds) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Success in Academic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55655-6_11
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