Glossary of French gender and sex terminology
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
- binarité de genre (gender binary)
- binarisme (binarism)
C
- chirurgie de réassignation sexuelle (gender reassignment surgery)
- cissexisme (cissexim)
- coming out (coming out) [see "sortir du placard"]
D
- diversité de genre (gender diversity)
- drag king (drag king)
- drag queen (drag queen)
- dualité de genre (gender binary/gender duality)
- dysphorie de genre (gender dysphoria)
E
- expression de genre (gender expression)
F
- femme trans, femme transgenre (trans woman) (mtf)
G
- genre (gender)
H
- homme trans, homme transgenre (trans man) (ftm)
I
- identité de genre (gender identity)
- intersexe (intersex)
- intersexualité (intersexuality)
M
- mtf, femme transgenre (mtf)
N
- non-binaire (nonbinary)
- 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 (Two Spirit)
- personne intersexuée (intersex)
- personne transgenre (transgender)
- personne transsexuelle (transsexual). Note that this term has negative connotations.
- personne non-conforme à un genre (gender nonconforming)
- privilèges cisgenres (cisgender privileges)
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)
- transitionner (transitioning)
- transphobie (transphobia)
- transsexualité (transsexuality)
- travesti / trav / travelo (travesti) often refer to someone who cross-dress, sometimes for sexual pleasure. Derogatory term.
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