Talk:Glossary of English gender and sex terminology

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    Remove poorly-attested jargon?

    A bunch of jargon on this page doesn't seem to have ever been in use by any part of the LGBT community, and don't seem to have appeared in use anywhere other than in an article where somebody proposed them. Do you think we should retire those poorly-attested entries to the Talk page, to make the glossary itself more useful and representative of jargon really used by the LGBT community any time during its history? -Sekhet (talk) 03:45, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

    Nm, I went ahead and did it. :) I made this decision because I'm the one who put so much extreneous stuff in the glossary in the first place, in an effort to make it thorough! See below. -Sekhet (talk) 05:32, 28 February 2019 (UTC)
    This looks good. I am slighly unsure of a few though. "TME / TMA" is a term that I was unfamilar with but is in common use (at least where I live), we don't have it anywhere else on the wiki, so it seems good to have here. Also perhaps "trap" and "qirl". Falkirks (talk) 07:36, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

    Poorly-attested jargon

    The below entries have been removed from the main article because they seem not to have been used much in the LGBT community, or are slightly off-topic for this wiki. Many are pronouns that were proposed, but not used, or not used widely. Other entries moved here may have been used in the LGBT community, but are too far off the topic of nonbinary gender, such as jargon strictly about LGB people. Some entries moved here are outdated psychiatric terms that were rarely used. Others are entries that don't seem to need dictionary definitions as much, because they're so well-known or speak for themselves, such as "gay" or "gender neutral." If you move any entries from the Talk page back into the main article, please add another source showing its notability, relevance to nonbinary people specifically, and that it has seen significant usage.

    Numerals and symbols

    • *e, h*, h*s, h*s, h*self.[1][2] Called "splat pronouns," this set of third-person gender-neutral pronouns uses an asterisk to make ambiguity between "he" and "she." Some software in the 1990s used these.[3]

    A

    • a. A third-person gender-neutral pronoun in some archaic as well as living British dialects.[4]
    • ag or aggressive. Another word for stud, which see.[5]
    • AGP. Short for autogynephilia, which see.[6]
    • ala, alum, alis, ?, ?.. A set of third-person gender-neutral pronouns created in 1989.[7]
    • autoandrophilia. To feel sexually aroused by the thought of being or dressing like a man. Some see this as an offensive word.[8]
    • autogynephilia. To feel sexually aroused by the thought of being or dressing like a woman. Some see this as an offensive word, because it pathologizes and invalidates the experiences of trans women in an attempt to divide them from cross-dressing men.[9]

    B

    • bear. A specific kind of masculine gay male gender identity.[10]
    • bicurious. A person who wants to have romantic or sexual relationships with more than one gender.[11]
    • biphobia. Discrimination against people who are bisexual.[12]
    • biromantic. A romantic orientation in which a person feels romantic attraction to more than one gender.[13]

    C

    • ce, cir, cir, cirs, cirself. A set of gender-neutral pronouns created in 2014.[14]
    • chapstick lesbian. A lesbian who doesn't try to look feminine.[15]
    • che, chim, chis, chis, chimself. A set of gender-neutral pronouns listed in Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage under epicene pronouns.[16]
    • cissexual. Non-transsexual. A kind of cisgender.[17]
    • contrasexism. Apparently this is an early clinical term for a “gender identity and role disturbance” used in “Westphal, 1869.”[18]
    • co, cos, cos, cosself. Coined by Mary Orovan in 1970, from Indo-European *ko. A gender-neutral pronoun set.[19]

    D

    • domestic partner. "One who lives with their beloved and/or is at least emotionally and financially connected in a supportive manner with another. Another word for spouse, lover, significant other, etc."[20]
    • dyke. A lesbian. Some consider "dyke" an offensive word, so only lesbians should reclaim it.

    E

    • em, ?, ems, ems, ?. A set of gender-neutral pronouns created in 1977 by "Jeffrey J. Smith, [who] felt strongly enough about them to start the Em Institute and put out the Em Institute Newsletter".[21]
    • enben or enber. Proposed nouns meaning "nonbinary person". Coined on the nonbinaryculture instagram account in 2019.[22]
    • eonism. Apparently this was an earlier clinical term for a "gender identity and role disturbance" used by "Ellis, 1936."[23]
    • epicene. Having a lack of gender distinction.
    • et, et, ets, ets, etself. A set of gender-neutral pronouns created in 1979.[24]
    • ey, em, eir, eirs, emself. A set of gender-neutral pronouns invented by Christine Elverson in 1975.[25]

    G

    • gay. "Men attracted to men. Colloquially used as an umbrella term to include all LGBTIQ people."[26]
    • gender-blank. Having no gender.[27][28]. Syn. agender.
    • gender blind. Doing things without regard to the genders of the people involved. Unisex.[29]
    • gender-free. Having no gender identity.[30] Syn. agender.
    • gender incongruence. "Gender Incongruence was a proposed term for replacement of gender identity disorder in diagnosing transsexualism in the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders). The term Gender Dysphoria was chosen as the replacement."[31]
    • gender neutral. 1. That which has nothing to do with gender. 2. Having no gender identity; agender. 3. Having a gender identity that is neutral: not female, not male, not a mix. Neutrois.
    • gender-null. Having no gender identity. Syn. agender.
    • genderless. Having no gender identity. Syn. agender.
    • gender outlaw. Used by Kate Bornstein, a person who doesn't conform to a gender. See gender non-conformity.
    • gender-play. Proposed by Raphael Carter in 1996 or earlier as an alternative word for genderfuck,[32] which see.
    • gender refusenik. "Proposed by [Raphael Carter in 1996 or earlier] as a term for people denied [gender confirming surgeries], whether due to lack of funds or psychological paternalism. All gender refuseniks are non-ops [...], but not all non-ops are refuseniks."[33]
    • genital nullification.