ABSTRACT
Why queer supervision? Perhaps you grew up when the rst author did and the word queer is one that makes you cringe. ese days, however, working in a job that is focused on students who identify as gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, intersexed, lesbian, questioning, transsexual, and queer, we have learned that for many of them using the word queer is empowering. For them, it usually means that you cannot put them in a stereotypical box and think that you can gure them out because of whom they date, whom they have sex with, how they perform their gender, and so on. How the word is used also acknowledges the existence of uidity in sexual attraction, one’s sex, and one’s gender identity. Today, the rst author nds the use of the word queer to be, in fact, refreshing. A person who identies as intersexed has medically established physical and/or hormonal attributes of both the male and female sex. Someone who is attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender may identify as pansexual. Pansexuality diers from bisexuality in that pansexuals are attracted to the entire range of sexual and gender identities.
