Reply #8: Here's an answer.

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I don't know if you are the only person that finds the term "sexual orientation" annoying, but I know some don't care for it because it sounds "too sterile." They feel it is too clinical and not descriptive of a a person as a whole. I, personally, disagree. I find the tern to be appropriate. To me, "orientation" sounds more like something a person is (by birth); it is how someone is "wired."

Gender identity is something different all together. Gender is male, female, hermaphroditic, or androgynous. Like an "orientation," an "identity" could also be changed, and, IMHO, changed more easily, in some cases.

Did I make any sense?