The term's used as a reference to homosexuality. The term was originally used to mean "carefree", "happy", or "bright and by the end of the 20th century, the word gay was recommended by major LGBT groups and style guides to describe people attracted to members of the same sex.
LGBT, or GLBT, is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the term is an adaptation of the initialism LGB, which was used to replace the term gay in reference to the LGBT community beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s.
Many people have grown up without hearing the words “gay” or “lesbian.” Therefore, you may not be sure how to respond when a student asks you what they mean. It is better to try to answer than to respond with silence or evade the question.Determining your sexual orientation can be a confusing experience, but only you can truly determine it, on your own terms. There's no test for it yet, so the most reliable method is to look at your history and feelings, and make an educated guess.
Many if not most of us have had some experience hearing about or maybe talking to a transgender woman (designated male at birth). Trans women are women and just as female as any other. If you're a man, being attracted to a trans woman does not mean you're gay! And if you're a woman, being attracted to a trans woman means the same thing as being attracted to a cis woman. In fact, you may not know if you've met a trans woman. Often transgender people work towards 'passing', meaning that they would appear cisgender (someone who identifies with the gender they were designated at birth; the opposite of transgender and the vast majority of us).
Even if you are attracted specifically to the idea of a woman with a penis or a man with a vulva, this still doesn't necessarily mean anything about your sexuality. Sexuality is about attraction to a gender, not a sex organ.
