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When it comes to gender identity, what do we mean by gender identity? It's your self-identification of your gender and whether you identify as a man or a woman or both or none, it can change.

What do you mean by queer persons? Does that mean that I'm gay? Does that mean that I'm transgender? Does that mean I'm cisgender?

In response, Vikramaditya Sahai:

Queer can be understood in three ways, one is that queer is used as an umbrella term — so when you want to refer to people from the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, you can use queer. There are some disagreements about that, the disagreements are that queer was actually used in the 1970s by politicized people. As a way of reclaiming words that were used to insult people — so it was a political position against the word. So if I use queer, then I was making myself as someone who was against family, against institutional marriage, against state, capitalism, and so on. The other ways queer is used is when you don't know what the gender and sexual identity of the person is, but you have a sense that they are not hetero and cis and straight. So if you're speaking about them to a third person, and you haven't asked them how they identify, you can simply refer to them as queer.

Continuing, Shaikh:

MSM: Stands for ‘Men having sex with men’ – so they’re gay men right? No? There’s a difference between sexual orientation and action. A man may have sex with another man even though he is not attracted to that man for certain reasons. One of them could be for money, as a profession. They may be heterosexual, they may be married, may have a wife, and also have sex with men as their profession.

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