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B5
Sex, Gender Identity,
Gender Expression
and Sexual Orientation
Categories of MSM
Long hair
Term
Short hair with
female behavior (tuon
phluon)
Short hair with male
behavior (reng peng)
Bisexuals
Srey Sros
(transsexual)
Luk khloun
(male sex workers)
Feature
Man who identifies as a woman and wants to look like woman.
Man who identifies as a man and wears male clothing,
but who has some feminine behaviors. Has sex with men
(long hair or short hair).
Man who is characterized 100 percent as man, but who
has sex with other men (long hair or short hair).
Man who are attracted to both men and women.
Surgical intervention to become a woman.
Men who sell sex to both men and women.
Notes on Terminology
Gender identity: A person’s sense of themselves as male or female. Gender
identity is our sense of who we are as a man or woman, regardless of whether we
have male or female sexual organs. While most people’s gender identity matches
their biological sex, this is not always the case, e.g. in the case of long hair MSM
(transgender) they are born biologically male, yet have a female gender identity.
Gender expression: How one shows one’s gender identity, usually expressed
through a person’s appearance, clothing, body language, and voice, in terms of
what is culturally accepted as masculine or feminine.
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