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Sexuality and gender intersect in many and varied ways, not least in terms of the identity of people who claim such terms as heterosexual, gay, or lesbian as each of these pertains to an arrangement of specifically gendered people in a certain relation. As many people from the existential cannon have argued that gender is not an existential given, this can lead to difficulties for existential practitioners working with these groups when clients assert that these sexualities (and indeed the associated genders) are a key part of who they are and indeed, to some extent, are who they are.
For trans people, that is those people not content to remain the gender they were assigned at birth, this becomes further complicated. This is because both gender and sexuality must necessarily have been considered by the trans person during transition, but are nonetheless usually a key part of their expression of their fundamental self.
This paper will therefore utilise the lived experience of trans people as a lens through which to consider existential-phenomenological philosophy and practice as it concerns the intersections of gender and sexuality. It will pay particular attention to the place of ethics in situating such experiences within the philosophical cannon.