Glossary of Brazilian Portuguese gender and sex terminology

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

    A

    • agênero: agender
    • andrógino: androgynous (as in appearence)
    • andrógine: androgyne (as an identity)

    B

    • bigênero: bigender
    • binário de gênero: gender binary

    D

    • demigênero: demigender
    • demigaroto: demiboy
      • may be found as: demiguri, demimenino, ...
    • demigarota: demigirl
      • may be found as: demiguria, demimenina, ...

    E

    • estudos de gênero: gender studies

    F

    • feminilidade: femininity

    G

    • gênero: gender
    • gênero fluido: genderfluid
    • gênero queer: genderqueer
    • gênero binário: binary gender
    • gênero neutro: gender neutral

    H

    • homem trans binário: binary trans man
    • homem trans não-binário/binárie: nonbinary trans man

    I

    • intersexualidade: intersexuality
    • intersexo: intersexual
    • intergênero: intergender

    M

    • masculinidade: masculinity
    • multigênero: multigender
    • mulher trans binária: binary trans woman
    • mulher trans não-binária/binárie: nonbinary trans woman.

    N

    • não-binário: non-binary

    P

    • pangênero: pangender
    • poligênero: polygender
    • papeis de gênero: gender roles

    T

    • travesti:In Brazil, being a travesti can vary from being a trans woman to a different concept of gender. For a long time people believed that a travesti was a "man" who felt like a woman but still felt pleasure with "his" member, which is untrue for a lot of cases. Mulher Pepita, a travesti, claims that she always knew she was a travesti and that it is different from being a trans woman. In general it falls under the binary trans woman umbrella.
    • teoria queer: queer theory
    • terceiro sexo: third sex
    • transgênero: transgender
    • trigênero: trigender
    • transmasculino/e: transmasculine
    • transfeminina/e: transfeminine
    • transneutre/o/a: transneutral

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