Glossary of Spanish gender and sex terminology
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This page lists Spanish terms related to gender and sex. They are alphabetically ordered according to the words in Spanish.
A[edit | edit source]
- afeminado: effeminate
- agénero: agender
- aliado: ally
- androginia: androgyny
- andrógino/andrógina: androgyne
- apariencia andrógina: androgynous look
- asignado hombre al nacer (AHAN): AMAB, DMAB, CAMAB, MAAB
- asignado mujer al nacer (AMAN): AFAB, DFAB, CAFAB, FAAB
B[edit | edit source]
C[edit | edit source]
- cambio de nombre: name change
- cisgénero: cisgender
- cissexismo: cissexism
- cisheteronormativo: cisheteronormative
- cuir (pejorative)/queer: queer
- Cónyuge: wife / husband (gender neutral term). Used in formal language.
D[edit | edit source]
- disforia de género: gender dysphoria
- dos espíritus: two-spirit
- Detransicionar (verb): to detransition
E[edit | edit source]
- elle: A gender-neutral third-person pronoun.[1] See Gender neutral language in Spanish#Personal pronouns for more.
- espectro de género: gender spectrum
- estereotipos de género: gender stereotypes
- estudios de género: gender studies
- eunuco: eunuch
- expresión de género: gender expression
F[edit | edit source]
- femenino: feminine
- femme: femme
- feminidad: femininity
- feminista radical transexclusiva (TERFA) : TERF
G[edit | edit source]
- género: gender
- género fluido: genderfluid
- género neutro: gender neutral
- género cuir/género queer: genderqueer
- géneros binarios: gender binary
H[edit | edit source]
- heteronormativo: heteronormative
I[edit | edit source]
- intersexualidad: intersexuality
- intergénero: intergender
- identidad de género: gender identity
- identidad personal: self-identity
- identidades no-binarias: nonbinary identities
K[edit | edit source]
L[edit | edit source]
- Latin@ or Latinx or Latine. A gender-inclusive form of "Latino"/"Latina".
- lesbiana: lesbian
M[edit | edit source]
- malgenerizar (verb): to misgender
- marimacha (pejorative, can be used as an insult): butch; tomboy
- machorra (pejorative, can be used as an insult): butch, tomboy
- maricón / marica (pejorative): sissy Usually used as an insult, has been lately reclaimed by gay men.
- masculinidad: masculinity
- masculino: masculine
- multigénero: multigender / pangender
N[edit | edit source]
- no-binario / no-binaria / no-binarie: nonbinary No-binario stands for "género no binario" (nonbinary gender) and no-binaria stands for "persona no-binaria" (nonbinary person). The gender of the word doesn't imply binary identity. No-binarie is commonly used to avoid this misunderstanding.
- necrónimo: deadname
P[edit | edit source]
- pangénero: pangender
- pareja: partner (can be used for neutral term for significant other)
- pronombre(s): pronoun(s)
R[edit | edit source]
- roles de género: gender roles
S[edit | edit source]
- salir del armario: coming out (of the closet)
- demichica/demimujer: demigirl
- demichico/demihombre: demiboy
- sexo asignado al nacer: assigned sex at birth
- sexo biológico: biological sex
T[edit | edit source]
- testo: short for testosterona (testosterone), usually used in a similar way to English "T"
- trava / travelo (pejorative, can be used as an insult): transvestite, transgender. Used as an insult against trans woman, similar to tranny.
- travesti: transvestite, transgender; a gender identity in some Latin American countries
- travestismo: travestism
- teoría queer: queer theory
- teoría de género: gender theory
- tercer sexo: third sex
- transgénero: transgender
- trigénero: trigender
- transfobia: transphobia
- tránsfobo/tránsfoba: transphobe
- transfóbico/transfóbica: transphobic
- transmisoginia: transmisogyny
- transmisógino/transmisógina: transmisoginist
- transición: transition (noun)
- transicionar: transition (verb)
- transgresión de género: gender transgression
- transexclusión/transexcluyente: TERF
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- ↑ "Pronouns & Pronombres". Make the Road New York. Retrieved 5 October 2020.