One of the things that worried me about the talk I’m giving tomorrow is how much education some of the audience might need before I can start to talk about trans characters in books. But now, problem solved, I will just hand out copies of this.
It’s not perfect. Asexual people, in particular, are liable to be spitting furious about being left out. But it is a lot better than having to spend half an hour explaining the issues.
There’s a long discussion of the issues raised in the infographic, and a larger, printable version of the image here.
Map sexual orientation to a triangle instead of a line. The third vertex is “asexual.”
Interestingly enough @Andrew Trembley my first impulse was to put the “asexual triangle” under Gender Identity. Although it also fits quite well in Sexual Orientation. [And even mentioned as such with the “Or do you consider your gender to fall outside of the spectrum completely?”]
But I agree that it does tend to confuse the issue when you are specifically talking about gender and gender preferences when you don’t have one.
Very cool!