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Queer Terminology

A list of terms describing and relating to the queer community.

An Introduction to Queer Terminology

It is important for queer people to have access to resources where they can learn about queer identities and terminology to help discover themselves as well as to learn about the community around them and how to be respectful to the community. A lot of this terminology includes labels for queer people to be able to help to understand themselves and express that to others, however,  it is also important for people to understand that they are just labels and are merely intended to provide understanding of those identities and a met. It is a classifying term applied to LGBTQIA+ identities which is meant to increase understanding of those identities, but can feel restrictive to many in expressing their gender or sexuality. This is because gender and sexuality exist on a spectrum, and it is therefore impossible to define them definitively. Many people’s identities will fall outside of the strict boundaries that labels can form when used strictly. These labels can be helpful for many to understand their own identity as well as to express that to those around them, but it can be restricting to others as they can attempt to define something that is undefinable to them.

Terminology around queer identities is often used to increase the comfortability of cisgender and heterosexual individuals. Those both in and outside of the community often believe that by defining these labels more definitively and creating boxes for queer individuals to fit inside of, they can earn the approval of cishet individuals and decrease backlash against queer identities. They therefore confine the labels to boundaries which attempt to make understanding easier for cisgender, heterosexual people and these boundaries can lead many to find the use of these labels uncomfortable and restrictive. 

Knowing this, it is important to recognize that understanding this does not invalidate those that use labels or microlables. This terminology is intended to help LGBTQIA+ people to understand and express their sexuality and gender and, for some, these labels are found to be fitting and comfortable. There are people who are comfortable expressing and understanding their identity through labels and there are those who such an action would make them feel uncomfortable. It is important to recognize that no matter where you fall on this spectrum, it is not right to invalidate others for using labels differently, specifically, or not at all.

As a community queer individuals want to feel comfortable in our identities and in a world that so often tries to invalidate us, and we want to create a safe, comfortable environment for everyone else in the community. A way of achieving that is by acknowledging that the terminology and labels you are about to learn about do not apply to everyone and exist as a way for us to attempt to understand ourselves and share our understanding with others. In order to help everyone feel comfortable we need to recognize that and know that it is valid for others to want to use those labels or to want to avoid applying them to themselves. 

For many, a starting point for learning about how to support the LGBTQIA+ community sometimes has to do with understanding their identities. For instance, it can be difficult to understand the issues facing the transgender community if you do not know what it means to be transgender and understanding queer people’s identities is a way to be more accepting, acknowledge, and work on deconstructing built-in biases, homophobia, and transphobia. Although this usually requires further research and introspection, it can be an important stepping point for those outside the community to learn about the identities of those around them.

The definitions of LGBTQIA+ terminology below are largely base level, they do not go into the details and intricacies of these identities. They are meant to provide basic understandings of this terminology. Sources will be included with each for people to be able to research these terms further.

LGBTQIA+ Dictionary

Agender

Definition

Agender is a term used to describe a person who has no gender or does not feel or want to define themselves as a specific gender. 

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Ally

Definition

Ally is a term used to refer to someone who is supportive of the LGBTQIA+ community. They are someone who actively supports and stands up for LGBTQ+ rights.

Does being an ally make me a part of the community?

No, being an ally does not make you a part of the queer community. There are some people that like to claim that the A in LGBTQIA+ stands for ally, but it stands for asexual, aromantic, agender, and a few other terms that define queer individuals. Being an ally does not inherently make you a part of the LGBTQ+ community, though it is true that you can be an ally and be a part of the community (such as a lesbian supporting transgender people). This article by Everyday Feminism called, “5 Good Reasons Why the LGBTQIA+ Acronym Shouldn’t Include ‘Ally’” has an important explanation as to why this is the case: https://everydayfeminism.com/2016/08/lgbtqia-shouldnt-include-ally/

How can I be a better ally?

Whether you are a part of the queer community or not, this is an important question to answer. Allyship cannot just come from outside of the community and it needs to be extended by all members of the LGBTQ+ community to each other. There are several ways to become a better ally which include learning about the queer community and the struggles they face, learning about unconscious and implicit bias and stereotyping which are present in individuals outside of and within the community, and learning about microaggressions towards the community, as well as how to unlearn negative views of the LGBTQ+ community. Another important part of allyship is actively standing up for, defending, and supporting LGBTQ+ people. Below are several resources which explain how to be a better ally to the queer community:

Androgyny

Definition

Androgyny is a term which refers to a person’s gender presentation that falls in-between the conceptions of masculine and feminine traits. Androgyny is not limited to any gender or sexuality, but is commonly sought out by those who identify outside of the gender binary. Androgynous presentation is in no way a requirement for those who exist out of the gender binary to possess. Non-binary people are often pressured by cisgender society to fit into an androgynous form of expression, but this is a stereotype around what it means to be nonbinary, and non-binary people are free to express themselves in masculine or feminine ways depending on how they prefer to present themselves. This stereotype often forces many nonbinary people to feel like they have to fit into an androgynous form of expression to be recognized as nonbinary, but this is entirely untrue and one of the issues in the community which stems from an attempt at appealing to cisgender people’s comfort so as to gain their approval or understanding.

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Aromantic

Definition

Aromantic is a term that refers to someone who does not experience romantic attraction or experiences little romantic attraction. As with many queer identities aromanticism exists on a spectrum and can be defined and felt differently by those who identify that way. Aromantic people are sometimes mistaken to be unable to love, this is not true. Love is not defined by romantic attraction and exists in many forms outside of the popular view of love as romantic.

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Asexual

Definition

Asexual is a term that refers to someone that does not experience or experiences little sexual attraction. And as with many queer identities, asexuality exists on a spectrum with asexual individuals defining and feeling their experience of asexuality differently.

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Assigned Gender at Birth

Definition

Assigned gender/assigned sex at birth is the gender that a person is assigned at birth based on medical factors such as genitalia. Examples include AFAB, which refers to someone who was assigned female at birth, and AMAB, which refers to someone who was assigned male at birth.

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Bigender

Definition

Bigender is a term which refers to someone with two distinct gender identities. They could experience these gender identities either alternatively or simultaneously. These identities are not required to fit into binary gender identities and bigender individuals can identify with gender identities both inside and outside of the binary. For instance, someone might identify as female and agender, as male and nonbinary, or as male and female.

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Binding

Definition

Binding refers to the practice of using tight fitting sports bras or a binder to provide a flat chest contour, and this practice is often used by transgender men, nonbinary, and genderfluid people. The most safe method of binding is through the use of a binder, but the use of sports bras is another safe and common method. Even with the use of a binder, there are several safety practices which should be used by those practicing binding to avoid restricted breathing, skin irritation, overheating, and bruising or fracturing of ribs. 

What safety practices should be used to safely bind?

  • Those who chest bind should always bind for eight hours or less. The more breaks taken while binding the better to avoid breathing problems, skin irritation, overheating, and back pain.
  • Binders should always be taken off before going to sleep to allow the body to rest. Binders should also be taken off before exercising, but sports bras can be used while exercising to retain a flattened chest. 
  • People who are binding should avoid using duct tape or ace bandages to bind as they can restrict the user’s ability to breathe and move correctly. 
  • If someone who is binding starts feeling pain they should either take a break from binding or find a safer method of binding such as a larger, better fitting binder.

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Biphobia

Definition

Biphobia refers to prejudice, fear, or hatred directed at bisexual people.

Examples of Biphobia

  • Biphobia can include the idea that bisexual people are confused about their gender. 
  • “Bisexuality is just a phase” 
  • Biphobia includes the idea that bisexual people cannot be faithful to their partner. This idea stems from a history of stereotyped portrayal of bisexual people in the media. Because of this stereotype bisexual people can be mistrusted by their partners that they may not be sexually or romantically faithful to them. 
  • Bisexual people, and specifically bisexual women, are hypersexualized. Bisexuality is often fetishized and the hypersexualization of women stemming from misogyny creates an issue where bisexual women are often hypersexualized and fetishized because of their sexuality. A part of this is the heightened expectation that bisexual people will be open to threesomes. 
  • Biphobia includes the expectation that bisexual people will have an equal attraction to both men and women, when really bi people can have varying attraction to the genders they are attracted to. 
  • Biphobia includes the idea that bisexuality is inherently transphobic. This stems from transphobia itself along with restrictive conceptions of what the term bisexuality means. In this line of thinking people see bisexuality as being transphobic because the definition means liking “two genders” and people sometimes interpret this as not including the recognition of nonbinary people. In truth, bisexual refers to someone “liking two genders or more” and is not restricted to solely liking men or women. Another common misconception is that the terminology of “two genders” does not include transgender men or women which stems from transphobia as the idea that attraction to men or women would not include transgender men and women is inherently transphobic. Therefore, the idea that bisexual people are inherently transphobic stems from transphobia itself and a restricted perspective on the definition.

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Biromantic

Definition

Biromanticism is a term that refers to someone who is romantically attracted to people of more than one gender, but they are not sexually attracted to the genders they like.

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Bisexual

Definition

Bisexual refers to someone who has the capacity to form attraction to more than one gender not necessarily at the same time, to the same degree, or in the same way.

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Cisgender

Definition

Cisgender is a term used to describe anyone who identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth. This is an important term to be able to use as it is specific and neutral, it therefore does not carry a negative connotation like words that had been used prior, such as “normal”, as it does not position trans people as being “abnormal” or “irregular” as a result of its use. Transgender Studies Quarterly is a publication which gathers high-profile innovative research and scholarship about transgender lives with the intent of contesting the objectification, pathologization, and exotication of trans lives. In their May issue in 2014, they stated that the term originated through trans activist discourses in the 1990s which criticised commonly used terms for sex and gender at the time as they marginalized transgender people. As stated in the publication, “The terms man and woman, left unmarked, tend to normalize cisness—reinforcing the unstated ‘naturalness’ of being cisgender,” (Volume 1, Issue 1-2, 2014).

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Cisnormativity

Definition

Cisnormativity is a cultural/societal bias, often implicit, which assumes that all people are cisgender and so privileges cisgender individuals and therefore doesn’t acknowledge or represent gender variance. Cisnormativity is reinforced through a number of ways and is largely present in our society as there is a lack of focus on deconstructing this presumption. As stated in the definition of what it means to be cisgender, the word was created in protest to the cisnormative perspective which was created through language at the time. As stated by the May, 2014 Issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly, “Thus using the identifications of “cis man” or “cis woman,” alongside the usage of “transman” and “transwoman,” resists that norm reproduction and the marginalization of trans people that such norms effect.” The article points out how the lack of language at the time to denote cisness in a neutral way led to the reinforcement of the assumption that people are cisgender, as it was indicated through language as being the “normal” state of being, creating a bias of transgender people as “abnormal”. Cisnormativity is often reinforced through language.

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Closeted

Definition

“Closeted” or “in the closet” is an idiom, or a phrase or expression that typically presents a figurative or non-literal meaning. Although “closet” is often used to indicate a wardrobe or recess with a door in modern language, “closet” originally referred to a small private room. This idea of privacy led to the idea of hiding or keeping something secret. In the 1960s it was adopted by queer people as an indication that they were hiding the fact that they were gay from public knowledge or presentation. Therefore “in the closet” or “closeted” came to be used to reference this state of secrecy for LGBTQIA+ individuals. 

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Coming Out

Definition

Many people often use the idiom of “coming out” to refer to the process of revealing to someone how they identify in terms of their romantic orientation, sexual orientation, or gender identity. This figurative language developed from the etymology of the term “closeted”, explained above, to reference LGBTQIA+ individuals removing themselves from the state of secrecy concerning their identity. It is an extension of the idiom, making the act of “coming out of the closet” refer to the process of revealing one’s queer identity. Coming out is a lifelong process, but often importantly refers to coming out to close friends or family as these valued relations carry more weight than coming out to strangers or less close relations often do. 

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Deadnaming

Definition

Deadnaming is the act of, intentionally or unintentionally, referring to someone by a name they used prior to changing it. Although not exclusive to the LGBTQ+ community it is frequently used to describe the act of referring to a trans person by a name they no longer use, typically their birth name. 

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Deadnaming—What It Is and Why It’s Harmful to Mental Health” – Verywell Mind: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-deadnaming-and-why-is-it-harmful-5188575

Demiromantic

Definition

Demiromantic is a term used to describe anyone who only experiences romantic attraction to someone after they have formed a strong, close emotional connection with them. 

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Demisexual

Definition

Demisexual is a term used to describe anyone who only experiences sexual attraction to someone after they have formed a strong emotional bond or connection with them. 

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Gay

Definition

A term used to describe people who are emotionally, romantically, and/or physically attracted to people of the same gender. 

Gender Affirmation

Definition

Gender affirmation refers to the process by which a person receives social, legal, and/or medical support and affirmation of their gender identity. What gender affirmation looks like for each individual is unique and based on what is personally affirming, what feels safe to do, and what is accessible. Gender affirmation can be received in a number of ways including socially, legally, and/or medically:

  • Social affirmation may include actions like coming out, the use of one’s preferred name and pronouns, and the clothing an individual wears. 
  • Legal affirmation most commonly includes the changing of one’s name or gender marker within legal and legislative systems. 
  • Medical affirmation may include gender-affirming care such as hormone therapy, gender-affirming surgeries, and more. 

Gender affirmation is commonly used to refer to the process by which trans people affirm their gender identity, but it is not exclusive to trans people. Cisgender people commonly do things which make them feel more comfortable and supported in their gender identity as well.

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Gender Binary

Definition

The gender binary describes the inaccurate concept that gender is categorized into two distinct forms. Under this model, gender is seen as a rigid, binary structure with only two distinct categories: male and female. This ideology is largely imposed by Western culture and thought. Many other cultures give recognition to slightly or significantly different systems of gender. Western colonialism puts pressure on other cultures to conform to this strict model, historically imposing this model on colonized cultures through the implementation of social and legal penalties for individuals who do not conform to the gender binary. 

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Gender Dysphoria

Definition

Gender dysphoria is the feeling of incongruence between one’s societal presumed gender and one’s own sense of self or gender identity. Though often described as a feeling of discomfort, gender dysphoria can manifest in different ways for different individuals and is unique, but is often influenced strongly by one’s societal and cultural surroundings due to the impact these have in shaping one’s societally presumed gender. For instance, different cultural or societal views of gendered characteristics, expressions, and behaviors can shape what feels incongruent to an individual. Although definitions of and experiences of gender dysphoria may vary, clinically, gender dysphoria is defined by a feeling of discomfort or distress related to gender incongruence and is often a required diagnosis for receiving gender affirming care. While gender dysphoria is a catalyst for many trans people to come out and pursue their transition, it is often an overemphasized aspect of the trans lived experience, especially within the media. See the excerpt from Laura Kate Dale’s book Gender Euphoria below for a more in-depth explanation of this. 

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Gender Euphoria

Definition

Gender euphoria is a term used to refer to positive emotions resulting from the affirmation of one’s gender identity or expression and can include a wide variety of emotions and experiences. Gender euphoria can range from feelings of intense joy accompanying the attainment of milestones in a person’s gender transition to a feeling of calmness and content later in a person’s transition, and are often described as powerfully positive emotions. 

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Gender Expression

Definition

Gender expression is defined as the way in which a person expresses their gender identity, typically through appearance, dress, and behavior. It’s important to note that gender expression is not always reflective of gender identity. 

Genderfluid/Gender Fluid

Definition

Genderfluid is a term used to refer to people that have no fixed gender identity, having a gender that varies, or fluctuates, over time.

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Gender Identity

Definition

Gender identity refers to one’s own internal sense of self and gender. People’s internal sense of gender does not always match up with their assigned sex at birth. 

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Gender Nonconforming

Definition

Gender nonconforming refers to identities, behaviors, and/or forms of expression which do not conform to or align with a culture’s given norms and societal expectations around gender. Gender nonconforming is often used in reference to a lack of conformity to the gender binary, or when describing someone whose gender expression does not match society’s prescribed gender roles or norms for their gender identity.

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Heteronormativity

Definition

Heteronormativity is defined as the belief that heterosexuality is the normal for human sexual behavior and privileges this over any other form of sexual orientation. Heteronormativity is present on many levels including, but not limited to, social and legal institutions, the media, and the presumption that all people are heterosexual until stated otherwise. There are projections of this societal norm everywhere and for individuals growing up who are not heterosexual, an environment where they don’t feel represented can have detrimental effects on their learning, self-esteem, and sense of self-worth. 

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Heterosexual

Definition 

Heterosexuality is defined as sexual or romantic attraction to people of the opposite sex.

Homophobia

Definition

Homophobia is defined as negative attitudes towards homosexual people and homosexuality which may be manifested in discrimination, rejection, negative attitudes, hostile behavior, and/or hate crimes. Internalized homophobia is a common effect of heteronormativity and homophobia in which queer people can internalize, or take in, those negative messages about homosexuality. Internalized homophobia refers to non-heterosexual people adopting negative attitudes about homosexuality from socialization into a homophobic culture, leading to feelings of denial or self-hatred. 

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Homosexual

Definition

Homosexuality is defined as sexual or romantic attraction to people of one’s own gender.

Intersex

Definition

Intersex defines a variety of people who were born with chromosomes, hormones, or sexual anatomy that does not fit into our current binary classifications of male and female traits. Intersexuality has been a known variety of sex since the early 1900s. Approximately 1 in 100 people have characteristics which would identify them as being intersex.

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Lesbian 

Definition

Lesbian is a term used to define non-men loving non-men.

Misgendering

Definition

Misgendering refers to the act of wrongly attributing a gender to a person which does not align with their gender identity. This can be done intentionally or by accident and can happen when someone uses the wrong gendered pronouns, terms of address, or other gendered language for a person. 

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Nonbinary

Definition

Nonbinary is a word used to describe people who experience their gender identity as falling outside of the gender binary. It is an umbrella term and is often used to describe a variety of gender identities. Some nonbinary people may also use words like agender, bigender, demigender, and pangender to describe the way in which they are nonbinary.

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Outing

Definition

Outing describes the practice of exposing someone’s queer identity without their explicit permission. Outing someone can have serious consequences on the life of the individual that has been outed including on their economic stability, personal safety, and family situations.

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  • “Outing” – American Civil Liberties Union: https://www.aclu.org/issues/lgbtq-rights/lgbtq-youth/outing
  • “Why Outing Can Be Deadly” – National LGBTQ Task Force: https://www.thetaskforce.org/news/why-outing-can-be-deadly/

Pansexual

Definition

Pansexual describes someone who is romantically or sexually attracted to people regardless of their sexuality or gender identity.

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Passing

Definition

Passing refers to when someone is perceived as either the gender they identify as or are attempting to be seen as. Passing is not exclusive to transgender people. For example, cisgender women who wanted to be perceived as men during World War I or World War II to fight in the wars would attempt to pass as men through their styles of dress and gender presentation. Passing is more commonly used within trans circles, however, and though it can often be important for personal safety, the overemphasis of passing outside of these contexts creates an unrealistic expectation for trans people to live up to cisgender beauty standards that are often unachievable for both cisgender and transgender individuals. To learn more about these, refer to the article by Trans Hub, linked below.

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Polyamorous

Definition

Polyamorous or poly refers to the ability or desire to be romantically and/or sexually involved with more than one partner at the same time, with the informed consent of all parties. Polyamorous people are not necessarily queer, though the openness towards different forms of love and sexualities within the queer community often reinforces this association.

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Queer

Definition

A term to refer to LGBTQIA+ identities, often used as an umbrella term encompassing a wide range of sexualities and gender identies that fall outside of cishet norms.

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Questioning

Definition

Questioning is a term used to describe anyone who is still figuring out their gender identity or sexual orientation.

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QTPOC/QPOC

Definition

QTPOC is an acronym standing for queer and trans people of color, but can also be written as QPOC to indicate queer people of color.

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Romantic Orientation

Definition

Romantic orientation describes a person’s patterns of romantic attraction on the basis of their gender identity, regardless of their sexual orientation. For instance, an asexual person may experience romantic attraction for others, just not sexual attraction. Additionally, an aromantic person doesn’t experience romantic attraction to others, but may experience sexual attraction.

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Sex

Definition

Sex refers to the biological differences between bodies. This is composed of primary sex characteristics and secondary sex characteristics:

  • Primary Sex Characteristics: the biological features of the human body that are required to reproduce. These include the penis, scrotum, vagina, uterus, and fallopian tubes. 
  • Secondary Sex Characteristics: the biological differences between bodies that are not required to reproduce. Many of these appear around puberty with the introduction of masculinizing or feminizing hormones and include the growth and amount of body hair, vocal changes, breasts, body fat, and height. 

There are more than two sexes, to learn more about this visit the section on intersexuality above. In fact, there is no such thing as absolute male or absolute female in biological terms, instead there are people who are for the most part female or for the most part male and a spectrum of variations that exist between them. Even the differences between men and women are small, as human beings have a low rate of sexual dimorphism or the level of difference between sexes. Additionally, many of the more stark observed differences between men and women are socially constructed instead of biological.

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Sexual Orientation

Definition

Sexual orientation refers to people’s pattern of romantic, emotional, or sexual attraction to others based on their gender identity.

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Spectrum(s)

Definition

A spectrum refers to a broad range of related objects, values, qualities, ideas, etc. When we say that gender is a spectrum, we mean that there are a broad range of related gender identities and when we say that sexuality is a spectrum, we mean that there are a broad range of related sexualities. Both of these statements are frequently used to counter statements that make gender and sexuality out in a more simplistic manner, often disregarding people who’s sexuality or gender identity exists outside of these strict confines.

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T4T

Definition

T4T means “trans for trans,” referring to a dating practice among transgender individuals who seek out other transgender individuals due to the understanding and empathy they can offer related to trans issues, which is often missing from relationships with cisgender people.

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TERF

Definition

TERF is an acronym meaning trans exclusionary radical feminism. Trans exclusionary radical feminism refers to a branch of “feminism” in which feminists exclude transgender people, particularly transgender women, from the movement and often elect to center the experience of being female on biological factors. This practice is extremely harmful and is not a form of feminism as it does not include the experiences of all women and is often noticeably lacking in other forms of intersectionality within the movement. This practice, though not common in its most radical and exclusionary forms, is very common in that, especially within second and third wave feminism, the experiences of cisgender women are often depicted as an integral part of the experience of being a woman.

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Trans/Transgender

Definition

Transgender or trans for short is an umbrella term referring to anyone who’s gender identity differs from their assigned sex at birth. Some transgender people seek gender-affirming care to make their bodies match their internal image of themselves, while others may just transition socially. Of course, the methods of transitioning available to a person can be determined by their social environment. Systematic disadvantages based on social class, race, and other determinants like physical location can cause some trans people to not have access to the same gender-affirming care or environment that is available to other trans people.

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Transfeminine

Definition

Transfeminine is a term indicating a trans individual who identifies as more feminine than masculine.

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Transitioning

Definition

Transitioning refers to the process for transgender individuals of going from expressing themselves externally as one gender to expressing themselves as their true gender identity. Transitioning, while frequently used to refer to the medical process of transitioning, is a broader term referring to all the changes that a trans person makes in their life to affirm their gender identity, making it a social process. Transitioning can include accessing gender affirming care for those who wish to and have access to this path, but most often is seen within the smaller changes trans individuals make in their lives, such as changing their name and pronouns and sharing this with affirming people, changing their gender presentation to match the gender they identify as, and legal transitioning, such as affirming one’s identity with the legal system.

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Transphobia

Definition

Transphobia is a type of prejudice and discrimination, which involves negative attitudes and behaviors towards transgender individuals, as well as fear, aversion, hatred, violence or anger towards people who do not conform to the gender binary. Transphobia can come in many forms, some of which will be covered in some of the sources below if you wish to educate yourself and work to deconstruct transphobia in your life.

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Transmasculine

Definition

Transmasculine is a term indicating a trans individual who identifies as more masculine than feminine.

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Two-Spirit

Definition

Two-spirit is an umbrella term for trans/queer/gender-nonconforming identities found in Indigenous cultures, as an umbrella term it encompasses a wide-range of unique identities from a variety of different Indigenous cultural backgrounds.

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