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In a study called "Sexual Identity trajectory Among Sexual Minority youths:Gender comparisons they surveyed male and females." The questions were about earliest memories of same sex attractions and current feelings about sexual identity. They found that the context for sexual identity was more emotional oriented for females and more sex oriented for males. They also found that women tend to label themselves as homosexual or bisexual before engaging in sexual contacts and males had sexual experiences first before labeling themselves.

In the American Journal of Psychiatry there was an article called "Sexual Identity of 37 children raied by homosexual or transexual parents." They found that the participants who grew up in sexual atypical households out of 37 participants 36 of them reported that growing up, games, clothing, peer group preferences were typical for their gender.

The four components of sexual identity are biological sex, gender, identity, social sex role, and sexual orientation.

Social sex role includes the individuals femininty or masculinity.

Sexual orientation is the individuals physical and offectional sexual preferences for relationships with members of the same sex or opposite biological sex.

students, particularly gay, lesbian or bisexual were more likely to engage in healthy risk behaviors such as drugs, alcohol, violence and suicide