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[edit | edit source]
- androgynie: androgyny
- assignation de sexe à la naissance sex assignment
- auto-identification: self-identification
B[edit | edit source]
- binarité de genre: gender binary
- binarisme: binarism
C[edit | edit source]
- chirurgie de réassignation sexuelle: gender reassignment surgery
- cissexisme: cissexism
- coming out: coming out (see "sortir du placard")
D[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
- expression de genre: gender expression
F[edit | edit source]
- femme trans, femme transgenre: trans woman (mtf)
G[edit | edit source]
- genre: gender
H[edit | edit source]
- homme trans, homme transgenre: trans man (ftm)
I[edit | edit source]
- identité de genre (gender identity)
- intersexe (intersex)
- intersexualité (intersexuality)
M[edit | edit source]
- mtf, femme transgenre (mtf)
N[edit | edit source]
- non-binaire: nonbinary
- non-conformité de genre: gender non-conformity
- normes de genre: gender norms
P[edit | edit source]
- passer: passing
- personne dont le genre est fluide: genderfluid
- personne allosexuelle, personne altersexuelle: queer person
- personne androgyne: androgyne
- personne bispirituelle: Two Spirit person
- personne intersexuée: intersex person
- personne transgenre: transgender person
- personne transsexuelle: transsexual. (Note that this term has negative connotations.)
- personne non-conforme à un genre: gender nonconforming person
- privilèges cisgenres: cisgender privileges
- pronom: pronoun
Q[edit | edit source]
- queer: queer
R[edit | edit source]
- rôle de genre: gender role
S[edit | edit source]
- sortir du placard: coming out
- spectre de genre: gender spectrum
T[edit | edit source]
- 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.)
- travestir: to cross-dress (the verb is not derogatory compared to travesti / trav / travelo.)
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