GENDER, GENDER IDENTITY AND SEXUALITY: CONCEPTS AND DETERMINATIONS IN SOCIAL CONTEXT

This study aims to investigate the social relations that act and determine the meanings of gender, gender identity and sexuality, supporting the way the process of schooled education is positioned and acts in relation to the treatment of these concepts in its structuring. Present here, by conducting a bibliographic survey, the definitions that guide and perform the maintenance of the concepts of: gender, as culturally constructed and not linked to biological sex; gender identity, the ways in which each Being takes place in the social contexts of the masculine or feminine roles of the surrounding culture; and sexuality, expressed by individual desires and affectivities. These definitions point out that the presence and coexistence with multiplicity are of gender, gender identity and sexuality, habituates and builds respect and dignifies the way of understanding these different concepts lived in a social context and through the understanding of the existence of oppression. Against diversity and the search for the guarantee of a working norm there is the possibility of the learning process of the existence of multiplicity and differences.