Glossary Flashcards
(51 cards)
What is affirmed gender?
The gender to which someone who is transgender has transitioned. This term is often used to replace terms like ‘new gender’ or ‘chosen gender.’
What does agender mean?
A person who does not conform to any gender.
What is an ally?
A term used to describe someone who does not identify as LGBTQ but who is supportive of LGBTQ equality in its many forms.
What does androgynous refer to?
A non-binary gender identity, having both male and female characteristics.
What does asexual mean?
A person who does not experience sexual attraction.
What is assigned gender?
The gender that is given to an infant at birth based on the infant’s external genitals.
What is assigned sex?
The sex (male, female, intersex) that is assigned to an infant at birth.
What does bisexual mean?
An individual who is emotionally, romantically, and/or physically attracted to men and women.
What is cisgender?
A term used to describe an individual whose gender identity aligns with the one typically associated with the sex assigned to them at birth.
What does coming out refer to?
The process of self-acceptance for people who are LGBTQ, which continues throughout one’s life.
What is a cross-dresser?
Someone who wears the clothes typically worn by another gender, sometimes only in their home or as part of sexual play.
What does Female-to-Male (FtM) mean?
A term that describes someone who was assigned a female sex and gender at birth and currently has a male gender identity. The individual may or may not have had surgery or taken hormones to physically alter their appearance.
Affirmed male is sometimes the preferred terminology.
What is the definition of gay?
The adjective used to describe people whose emotional, romantic, and/or physical attraction is to people of the same sex (e.g., gay man, gay people). In contemporary contexts, ‘lesbian’ is often a preferred term for women.
People who are gay need not have had any sexual experience; it is attraction that helps determine orientation.
What is gender?
A set of social, psychological, or emotional traits, often influenced by societal expectations that classify an individual as either feminine or masculine.
What is gender-affirming surgery?
Surgical procedures that help people adjust their bodies in a way that more closely matches their desired gender identity. It is only one small part of a transition. Not every transgender person will desire or have resources for surgery.
This should be used in place of the older and often offensive term ‘sex change.’
What is the gender binary?
The concept that there are only two genders, male and female, and that everyone must be one or the other.
What does gender-diverse or gender variance mean?
gender variance means that a person’s gender identity or expression does not fit traditional male or female roles. It includes people who feel different from the gender assigned at birth, such as non-binary, genderfluid, or transgender individuals.
What is Gender Dysphoria (GD)?
A psychological diagnosis recognized by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and American Medical Association (AMA). This dysphoria is marked by severe distress and discomfort caused by the conflict between one’s gender identity and one’s designated sex at birth.
Not all transgender people experience gender dysphoria or are diagnosed with GD.
What is gender expression?
The manner in which a person chooses to communicate their gender identity to others through external means such as clothing and/or mannerisms. This communication may be conscious or subconscious and may or may not reflect their gender identity or sexual orientation.
What does gender fluid mean?
Someone who embodies characteristics of multiple genders, or shifts in gender identity.
What is gender identity?
One’s deeply held personal, internal sense of being male, female, some of both, or neither. One’s gender identity does not always correspond to biological sex.
Awareness of gender identity is often experienced in infancy, but may be discovered at later developmental stages.
What is a gender marker?
A legal indicator of one’s gender. This can include one’s gender on a passport, birth certificate, license, or insurance card.
What does gender neutral mean?
Not gendered. Can refer to language (including pronouns), spaces (like bathrooms), or identities (being genderqueer, for example).
What is gender nonconforming?
A person who views their gender identity as one of many possible genders beyond strictly female or male. This is an umbrella term that can encompass other terms such as ‘gender creative,’ ‘gender expansive,’ ‘gender variant,’ ‘genderqueer,’ ‘gender fluid,’ ‘gender neutral,’ ‘bigender,’ ‘androgynous,’ or ‘gender diverse.’ Such people feel that they exist psychologically between genders, as on a spectrum, or beyond the notion of the male and female binary paradigm.
