Sexual orientation and gender identity

Gangestad, S.W., Bailey, J.M. and Martin, N.G. (2000) Taxometric analyses of sexual oriention and gender identity. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 78, 1109-1121. 

The company will prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity as part of its written employment policy statement. 

UNHCR, The Protection of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Asylum-Seekers and Refugees Discussion Paper prepared for a UNHCR Roundtable on Asylum-Seekers and Refugees Seeking Protection on Account of Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, Geneva, Switzerland, 22 September 2010. 

Jansen, S., and Spijkerboer, T. (2011) Fleeing Homophobia Asylum Claims Related to Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Europe. Amsterdam COC Nederland, Vrije Universitei. 

The company will offer equal benefit plans and opportunities to all employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. 

The company will not discriminate in the sale of its goods and services, or in its agreements with suppliers and vendors, on the basis on sexual orientation or gender identity. 

UNHCR (2012) Guidelines on International Protection No. 9 Claims to Refugee Status based on Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Identity within the context of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention and/or its 1967 Protocol relating to the... 

Bureau for Gender Equality. (2012). Gender identity and sexual orientation Promoting rights, diversity and equality in the world of work (PRIDE). Retrieved from International Labour Organization website http // www.ilo.org/gender/Projects/WCMS 184205/lang—en/index. htm... 

A second, related lesson is the realization of intersectionality— meaning, in the UNAIDS context, that HIV status interacts with other components of identity, such as sexual orientation, gender, disability, age or generation, religion, and culture (to name the more obvious ones), and that no one dimension of identity stands alone they all intersect, therefore each one of us is a unique human being (see Ferdman Roberts, Chapters, in this volume). 

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