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* '''angenital''' or '''ANG'''. "an identity in which you feel uncomfortable (potentially [[dysphoria|dysphoric]]) with having any sort of genitalia ([[sex]]) at all but do not mind gendered [[pronouns]] or having a gender label. You have a desire to be sexless but not necessarily genderless." Coined by uchuulien.<ref>https://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94551662004/uchuulien-angenital-ang-for-short-ang-is-an [https://web.archive.org/web/20200925142733/https://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94551662004/uchuulien-angenital-ang-for-short-ang-is-an Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> See also [[genital nullification]]. | * '''angenital''' or '''ANG'''. "an identity in which you feel uncomfortable (potentially [[dysphoria|dysphoric]]) with having any sort of genitalia ([[sex]]) at all but do not mind gendered [[pronouns]] or having a gender label. You have a desire to be sexless but not necessarily genderless." Coined by uchuulien.<ref>https://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94551662004/uchuulien-angenital-ang-for-short-ang-is-an [https://web.archive.org/web/20200925142733/https://queerascat.tumblr.com/post/94551662004/uchuulien-angenital-ang-for-short-ang-is-an Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> See also [[genital nullification]]. | ||
* '''[[aporagender]]'''. Coined in 2014, from Greek ''apo, apor'' "separate" + "gender".<ref name="apora-etymology">{{cite web |title=Anonymous said: could i ask the etymology of the prefix apora- ? |date=10 June 2014 |archive-date= 11 August 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160811080852/http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88346079784/could-i-ask-the-etymology-of-the-prefix-apora| url= http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88346079784/could-i-ask-the-etymology-of-the-prefix-apora}}</ref> A [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] and [[umbrella term]] for "a gender separate from male, female, and anything in between while still having a very strong and specific gendered feeling" (that is, not an [[agender|absence of gender]]).<ref name="aporagender">{{cite web |archive-date= 27 September 2014 |url=http://aporagender.tumblr.com/aporagender |archive-url=https://archive.ph/qGmTX |title= Aporagender }}</ref> | * '''[[aporagender]]'''. Coined in 2014, from Greek ''apo, apor'' "separate" + "gender".<ref name="apora-etymology">{{cite web |title=Anonymous said: could i ask the etymology of the prefix apora- ? |date=10 June 2014 |archive-date= 11 August 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160811080852/http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88346079784/could-i-ask-the-etymology-of-the-prefix-apora| url= http://aporagender.tumblr.com/post/88346079784/could-i-ask-the-etymology-of-the-prefix-apora}}</ref> A [[nonbinary]] [[gender identity]] and [[umbrella term]] for "a gender separate from male, female, and anything in between while still having a very strong and specific gendered feeling" (that is, not an [[agender|absence of gender]]).<ref name="aporagender">{{cite web |archive-date= 27 September 2014 |url=http://aporagender.tumblr.com/aporagender |archive-url=https://archive.ph/qGmTX |title= Aporagender }}</ref> | ||
* '''aromantic''' or '''aro'''. A [[romantic orientation]] in which a person doesn't feel romantic attraction to people of any gender.<ref name="hallelujah-labels">{{Cite web |title=Hallelujah, it’s raining labels |author=Cottle, J.M. |work=jmcottle.com |date=16 July 2011 |access-date=7 May 2020 |url= https://jmcottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/ | * '''aromantic''' or '''aro'''. A [[romantic orientation]] in which a person doesn't feel romantic attraction to people of any gender.<ref name="hallelujah-labels">{{Cite web |title=Hallelujah, it’s raining labels |author=Cottle, J.M. |work=jmcottle.com |date=16 July 2011 |access-date=7 May 2020 |url= https://jmcottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507173910/https://jmcottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | ||
* '''asexuality'''. A [[sexual orientation]] in which a person doesn't feel sexual attraction to people of any gender. Asexual people might still feel other types of attraction.<ref name="JHUglossary">{{Cite web |title=LGBT Glossary |author= |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=11 February 2021 |url= http://web.jhu.edu/LGBTQ/glossary.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230613211934/https://web.jhu.edu/LGBTQ/glossary.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | * '''asexuality'''. A [[sexual orientation]] in which a person doesn't feel sexual attraction to people of any gender. Asexual people might still feel other types of attraction.<ref name="JHUglossary">{{Cite web |title=LGBT Glossary |author= |publisher=Johns Hopkins University |access-date=11 February 2021 |url= http://web.jhu.edu/LGBTQ/glossary.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230613211934/https://web.jhu.edu/LGBTQ/glossary.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> | ||
* '''a-spec''' or '''a-spectrum'''. The community of anyone who is in some way asexual or aromantic. | * '''a-spec''' or '''a-spectrum'''. The community of anyone who is in some way asexual or aromantic. | ||
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* '''[[genderism]]'''. "The system of belief that there are only two genders (men and women) and that gender is inherently tied to one’s sex assigned at birth. It holds cisgender people as superior to transgender people, and punishes or excludes those who don't conform to society’s expectations of gender."<ref name="Berkeley2013" /> See [[cissexism]] and [[nonbinary erasure]]. ''Note:'' when used by [[Feminism#Transgender-exclusionary feminists|TERFs]], "genderist" is a disparaging term for a person who "believes in gender ideology" (i.e. respects gender as self-identified, not based on biology).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=433662447121753&id=368260636995268&__tn__=H-R|date=21 July 2018|author=trans autistica|title=there really needs to be more information about terf tactics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719162317/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D433662447121753%26id%3D368260636995268%26__tn__%3DH-R|archive-date=19 July 2023|access-date=5 July 2020|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> | * '''[[genderism]]'''. "The system of belief that there are only two genders (men and women) and that gender is inherently tied to one’s sex assigned at birth. It holds cisgender people as superior to transgender people, and punishes or excludes those who don't conform to society’s expectations of gender."<ref name="Berkeley2013" /> See [[cissexism]] and [[nonbinary erasure]]. ''Note:'' when used by [[Feminism#Transgender-exclusionary feminists|TERFs]], "genderist" is a disparaging term for a person who "believes in gender ideology" (i.e. respects gender as self-identified, not based on biology).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=433662447121753&id=368260636995268&__tn__=H-R|date=21 July 2018|author=trans autistica|title=there really needs to be more information about terf tactics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719162317/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D433662447121753%26id%3D368260636995268%26__tn__%3DH-R|archive-date=19 July 2023|access-date=5 July 2020|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> | ||
* '''[[Gender nonconformity|gender non-conformity]] (GNC)'''. Regardless of gender identity or whether one is cisgender or transgender, resistance to conforming to a female or male gender expression. | * '''[[Gender nonconformity|gender non-conformity]] (GNC)'''. Regardless of gender identity or whether one is cisgender or transgender, resistance to conforming to a female or male gender expression. | ||
* '''genderpunk'''. Another term for [[genderfuck]].<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderpunk [https://web.archive.org/web/20221128000353/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderpunk Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> | * '''genderpunk'''. Another term for [[genderfuck]].<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderpunk. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221128000353/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderpunk Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BALqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT188&dq=genderpunk&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&q=genderpunk&f=false |quote=I identify as a genderpunk nonbinary disabled elder transgender woman veteran rabbi. Genderpunk is synonymous with genderfuck; its usage goes back to the 1960s and 1970s. |title=Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century|editor-last=Brettschneider|editor-first=Marla |date=2024 |publisher=State University of New York Press}}</ref> | ||
* '''gender presentation'''. All the signs of a person's gender that other people can see.<ref>"Gender presentation." ''Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki.'' [https://susans.org/wiki/Gender_presentation] [https://web.archive.org/web/20201030225551/https://susans.org/wiki/Gender_presentation Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> | * '''gender presentation'''. All the signs of a person's gender that other people can see.<ref>"Gender presentation." ''Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki.'' [https://susans.org/wiki/Gender_presentation] [https://web.archive.org/web/20201030225551/https://susans.org/wiki/Gender_presentation Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref> | ||
[[File:Genderqueer.png|thumb|[[Genderqueer flag]] by Marilyn Roxie in 2011. Lavender, as a mix of pink and blue, is for [[androgyne|androgynes]] and [[MOGII]]. White is for [[agender]]. Dark chartreuse green (the inverse of lavender) is for [[gender]] outside the [[gender binary]].<ref>[http://genderqueerid.com/about-flag http://genderqueerid.com/about-flag] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230625010700/https://genderqueerid.com/about-flag Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>]] | [[File:Genderqueer.png|thumb|[[Genderqueer flag]] by Marilyn Roxie in 2011. Lavender, as a mix of pink and blue, is for [[androgyne|androgynes]] and [[MOGII]]. White is for [[agender]]. Dark chartreuse green (the inverse of lavender) is for [[gender]] outside the [[gender binary]].<ref>[http://genderqueerid.com/about-flag http://genderqueerid.com/about-flag] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230625010700/https://genderqueerid.com/about-flag Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>]] | ||