Glossary of Hindi gender and sex terminology: Difference between revisions

| Gender

|Androgyny, this word is used for a wide variety of [[Gender nonconforming|gender nonconforming]] and non-binary gender identities and gender expressions.

|A masculine gender identity or expression, which some see as a non-binary gender.

|Emasculation, a surgery to take away the penis and testicles.

|Gender identity, "An individual’s internal sense of gender, which may or may not be the same as one’s gender assigned at birth." Most people identify as the gender that they were assigned at birth. They are described as 'cisgender' by the transgender community, who do not identify with their assigned birth genders.

|Transgender, an umbrella term for those with gender identities that don't match the genders they were assigned at birth.

| Transsexual, a kind of transgender person who wants to physically transition to a different gender than they were assigned at birth.

|Non Binary, an umbrella term for all who don't identify as just female or male. Though there are many kinds of nonbinary gender identities, some people identify as "nonbinary" only.

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