Editing Sexual diversity (section)

==Overview==
In the [[Western world]], generally simple classifications are used to describe sexual orientation ([[heterosexual]]s, [[homosexual]]s and [[bisexual]]s), gender identity ([[transgender]] and [[cisgender]]), and related minorities ([[intersex]]), gathered under the acronyms [[LGBT]] or [[LGBTI]] ([[lesbian]], [[gay]], [[bisexual]], [[transgender]]/[[transsexual]] people, and sometimes [[intersex]] people); however, other cultures have other ways of understanding the sex and [[gender systems]].<ref>{{cite journal| pmc=3146184 | pmid=21836691 | doi=10.4103/0019-5545.69244 | volume=52 | issue=7 | title=Sexual variation in India: A view from the west | year=2010 | journal=Indian J Psychiatry | pages=S264–8 | last1 = Kalra | first1 = G | last2 = Gupta | first2 = S | last3 = Bhugra | first3 = D}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1= Epprecht |first1= Marc |last2= Nyeck |first2= S. N |year= 2013|title= Sexual Diversity in Africa: Politics, Theory, and Citizenship |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Fa98AQAAQBAJ|publisher= McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn= 978-07735-4187-0}}</ref><ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287439446_Gender_diversity_in_Indonesia_Sexuality_Islam_and_queer_selves Gender diversity in Indonesia: Sexuality, Islam and queer selves.] 2010.</ref> Over the last few decades, some [[sexology]] theories have emerged, such as [[Kinsey scale|Kinsey theory]] and [[queer theory]], proposing that this classification is not enough to describe the sexual complexity in human beings and, even, in other [[homosexual behavior in animals|animal species]].<ref>{{cite AV media |people= Roughgarden, Joan (Director) |date= 2008|title= Sexual Diversity in the Animal Kingdom }}</ref>

For example, some people may feel an intermediate sexual orientation between heterosexual and bisexual ([[heteroflexible]]) or between homosexual and bisexual ([[homoflexible]]). It may vary over time, too ([[sexual fluidity]]), or include attraction not only towards women and men, but to all the spectrum of sexes and genders ([[pansexual]]).<ref name="Stitt">{{Cite book|title=ACT For Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide |last=Stitt|first=Alex|date=2020|publisher=Jessica Kingsley Publishers|isbn=978-1785927997|location=London|oclc=1089850112}}</ref> In other words, within bisexuality there exists a huge diversity of typologies and preferences that vary from an exclusive heterosexuality to a complete homosexuality ([[Kinsey scale]]).<ref>[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Navjot_Bhullar/publication/303697584_Beyond_Heterosexual_Bisexual_and_Homosexual_A_Diversity_in_Sexual_Identity_Expression/links/575a1e9108ae9a9c954f2bc2/Beyond-Heterosexual-Bisexual-and-Homosexual-A-Diversity-in-Sexual-Identity-Expression.pdf Beyond Heterosexual, Bisexual, and Homosexual: A Diversity in Sexual Identity Expression.] Archives of Sexual Behavior. 2016.</ref>

Sexual diversity includes [[intersex]] people, those born with a variety of intermediate features between women and men.<ref>{{cite book |year=2010|title= Un cuerpo, mil sexos: intersexualidades |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=BbGzCgAAQBAJ |language=Spanish|publisher= Topia |isbn= 978-987-1185-42-9}}</ref> It also includes all [[transgender]] and transsex identities which do not frame within the [[gender binarism|binary gender system]] and, like sexual orientation, may be experienced in different degrees in between cisgender and transsexuality, such as [[genderfluid]] people.<ref>[http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/17672/ Theorizing Gender Diversity: Current trans, future directions.] University of Huddersfield. 2013.</ref><ref name="Stitt"/>

Lastly, sexual diversity also includes [[asexuality|asexual]] people, who feel disinterest in sexual activity;<ref>{{cite book |last1= Carrigan|first1= Mark |last2= Gupta |first2= Kristina |last3= Morrison|first3= Todd G. |year=2015|title= Asexuality and Sexual Normativity: An Anthology |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Q0KDCgAAQBAJ |publisher= Routledge|isbn= 978-0-415-73132-4}}</ref><ref name="Stitt"/> and all those who consider that their identity cannot be defined, such as [[queer]] people.

Socially, sexual diversity is claimed as the acceptance of being different but with equal rights, liberties, and opportunities within the [[Human Rights]] framework. In many countries, visibility of sexual diversity is vindicated during [[Pride Parade]]s.<ref>[http://thedmonline.com/pride-weekend-events-gender-diversity/ Pride Weekend events celebrate gender and sexual diversity in Oxford.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517193808/http://thedmonline.com/pride-weekend-events-gender-diversity/ |date=2017-05-17 }} The Daily Mississippian. 17 may 2017.</ref>