special subjects
Overview of Sexuality
Sex and sexual identity
Sex and sexual identity are not the same thing. is defined by the traits usually used to distinguish between males and females. Sex refers especially to the physical and biologic traits that are physically evident at birth and is often captured in the phrases "assigned male at birth" (AMAB) and "assigned female at birth" (AFAB). Between 0.02% and 0.05% of neonates have ambiguous genitalia; in some of these neonates, the ambiguous genitalia makes an initial assignment of sex problematic ( References ). Sex is a complex concept; for a detailed review see Sarah S. Richardson, Sexual identity/sexual orientationis the pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions that people have toward others. It also refers to a person's sense of personal and social identity based on those attractions, related behaviors, and membership in a community of others with similar attractions and behaviors. There are many different sexual identities, such as heterosexual (attraction to the opposite sex), homosexual (attraction to the same sex), bisexual (attraction to both sexes), and asexual (attraction to neither sex). is an internal sense of being male, female, or something else, which may or may not correspond to an individual's sex assigned at birth or sex characteristics. Gender identity is largely separate from sexuality in a clinical sense (see Sex, gender, and identity ). 