Glossary of French gender and sex terminology

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This page lists French terms related to gender and sex. They are alphabetically ordered according to the words in French.

A

• androgynie (androgyny)
• assignation de sexe à la naissance (sex assignment)
• auto-identification (self-identification)

B

• binarisme (binarism)

C

• chirurgie de réassignation sexuelle (gender reassignment surgery)
• privilèges cissexuels et cisgenres (cisgender privileges)
• cissexisme (cissexim)

D

• diversité de genre (gender diversity)
• drag king (drag king)
• drag queen (drag queen)
• dualité de genre (gender binary)
• dysphorie de genre (gender dysphoria)

E

• expression de genre (gender expression)

F

• femme trans, femme transgenre (trans woman)
• ftm or homme transsexuel (ftm)

G

• genre (gender)

H

• homme trans, homme transgenre (trans man)

I

• identité de genre (gender identity)
• intersexualité (intersexuality)

M

• mtf, femme transsexuelle (mtf)

N

• non-binaire (non-binary)
• non-conformité de genre (non-conformity)
• normes de genre (gender norms)

P

• passer (passing)
• personne dont le genre est fluide (genderfluid)
• personne allosexuelle, personne altersexuelle (queer)
• personne androgyne (androgyne)
• personne bispirituelle (bispiritual)
• personne intersexuée (intersex)
• personne transgenre (transgender)
• personne transsexuelle (transsexual)
• personne non-conforme à un genre (gender nonconforming)

Q

• queer (queer)

R

• rôle de genre (gender role)

S

• sortir du placard (coming out)
• spectre de genre (gender spectrum)

T

• trans (trans)
• transactivisme (transactivism)
• transidentité (transidentity)
• transition (transition)
• transphobie (transphobia)
• transsexualité (transsexuality)
• travesti (travesti) often refer to someone who cross-dress for sexual pleasure

External Links

• Aide aux Trans du Québec

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