Glossary of English gender and sex terminology: Difference between revisions

* '''[[cross-dresser]].''' "Someone who wears clothes associated with another gender part of the time."<ref name="Berkeley2013">{{cite web|title=LGBT resources: Definition of terms.|url=http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lgbt_resources_definiton_of_terms|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20160506105845/http://geneq.berkeley.edu/lgbt_resources_definiton_of_terms|date=July 2013|archive-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> A cross-dresser may consider themself to be cisgender or transgender.

* '''effeminate'''. A feminine man. Some see this as an offensive word.<ref name="Molay2010">{{Cite web |title=Transgender, Genderqueer and Transsexual Glossary |last=Molay |first=Jack |work=CrossDreamers.com |date=25 January 2010 |access-date=27 April 2020 |url= https://www.crossdreamers.com/2010/01/transgender-and-transsexual-glossary.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315023315/https://www.crossdreamers.com/2010/01/transgender-and-transsexual-glossary.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* '''exorsexism'''. A term for [[discrimination against nonbinary people]], whether intentional or not.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://exorsexistbullshit.tumblr.com/post/146314687718/whats-exorsexism-mean-sorry-i-keep-seeing-it|title=What's exorsexism mean? Sorry, I keep seeing it and I don't know|date=22 June 2016|work=Exorsexist Bullshit (blog)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523082859/https://exorsexistbullshit.tumblr.com/post/146314687718/whats-exorsexism-mean-sorry-i-keep-seeing-it|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Coined in 2016 by tumblr user vergess.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112160958/http://vergess.tumblr.com/post/143919554200/xor-gender-chart |title=XOR Gender Chart| date=5 May 2016 |archive-date=12 January 2019|url=http://vergess.tumblr.com/post/143919554200/xor-gender-chart}}</ref> Also called enbyphobia.<ref name="Archangel">{{Cite web |title=Gender Fluidity 101 |author=Archangel{{!}}December |work=The Everyday |date=17 January 2021 |access-date=6 March 2021 |url= https://theeverydaymagazine.co.uk/opinion/gender-fluidity-101|archive-url=False |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

* '''femboy'''. A boy or man whose [[gender expression]] is [[feminine]] may be called a femboy or may self-identify as such.<ref>{{cite web|website= Wiktionary|url=https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=femboy&oldid=58188238|date=18 December 2019 |access-date=14 December 2020|title=femboy|archive-url=False|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Some femboys undergo [[hormone therapy]] to appear more feminine and/or less masculine, while still identifying as cisgender (though some end up later identifying as transgender).<ref name="AlyW-Exploration">{{Cite web |title=An Exploration of Possibilities for Hormone Therapy in Non-Binary Transfeminine People |last=W. |first=Aly |work=Transfeminine Science |date=22 June 2021 |access-date=27 June 2021 |url= https://transfemscience.org/articles/nonbinary-transfem-overview/ |quote=There are also individuals who seek hormonal feminization and/or demasculinization but do not actually identify as transgender. These cisgender-identified individuals often refer to themselves as “femboys”. Communities of these individuals exist on social media sites like Reddit (e.g., r/FemboyTransition). Feminization-inclined cisgender people who pursue hormonal transition often have similar preferences as transfeminine non-binary people—one of the most common of which is feminization without breast development. Sometimes these initially cisgender-identified hormonally transitioning individuals end up progressing to a transgender identity with time. |archive-url=False |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> In the 2021 [[Gender Census]], 223 respondents (0.50% of total respondents) wrote that they were femboys.<ref>{{cite web| title= [GC2021] Identity| date=10 March 2021| url= https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WCFvopijdsWAsT6NGGnjUB7QpLmrs584Q9slbId3JDw/edit#gid=260963482}}</ref> Caution: "Femboy" should not be used against [[transfeminine]] people, as it is considered misgendering.

* '''FTF'''. Female to female. A term used by some trans women/[[transfeminine]] people because they feel "MTF" wrongly implies they were formerly male, or because they dislike having to note their [[sex assigned at birth]].<ref name="FinneganMcNally">{{cite book|title=Counseling Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Substance Abusers: Dual Identities|page=31|year=2002|last1=Finnegan |first1=Dana G. |last2=McNally |first2=Emily B.}}</ref> People using the label FTF might not identify as [[transgender]].<ref name="yout_What">{{Cite web |title=What are MTM and FTF??? {{!}} ABC's of LGBT |last=Hardell |first=Ash |authorlink=Ash Hardell|work=YouTube |date=30 August 2015 |access-date=26 April 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH12b8QGti0&feature=emb_title|archive-url=False |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>[https://beyond-mogai-pride-flags.tumblr.com/post/183395584975/im-confused-how-can-someone-be-ftf-thats Anonymous asked: I'm confused. How can someone be ftf?], 11 March 2019</ref>

* '''[[genderism]]'''. "The system of belief that there are only two genders (men and women) and that gender is inherently tied to one’s sex assigned at birth. It holds cisgender people as superior to transgender people, and punishes or excludes those who don't conform to society’s expectations of gender."<ref name="Berkeley2013" /> See [[cissexism]] and [[nonbinary erasure]]. ''Note:'' when used by [[Feminism#Transgender-exclusionary feminists|TERFs]], "genderist" is a disparaging term for a person who "believes in gender ideology" (i.e. respects gender as self-identified, not based on biology).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=433662447121753&id=368260636995268&__tn__=H-R|date=21 July 2018|author=trans autistica|title=there really needs to be more information about terf tactics|archive-url=False|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

*'''[[neutrois]]'''. Coined by a neutrois person named H. A. Burnham in 1995.<ref>Axey, Qwill, Rave, and Luscious Daniel, eds. “FAQ.” Neutrois Outpost. Last updated 2000-11-23. Retrieved 2001-03-07. [http://web.archive.org/web/20010307115554/http://www.neutrois.com/faq.htm]</ref> Having one nonbinary gender identity that is neutral. Not female, not male, and not a mix. Some neutrois people are transsexual, experience gender dysphoria, and want to get a physical transition.<ref>"Define." ''Neutrois Nonsense.'' [http://neutrois.me/neutrois] [https://web.archive.org/web/20221206235937/https://neutrois.me/neutrois/ Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>

*'''presentation'''. "The totality of one’s appearance, including attire, voice, behavior, body language, etc."<ref name="hans">{{cite web|title=Gender terms.|last=Hans|first=T. Aaron|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20020614112429/http:/alisha_clarke.tripod.com/readings/gender_terms.htm|url=http://alisha_clarke.tripod.com/readings/gender_terms.htm|archive-date=14 June 2002}}</ref>

* '''truscum'''. In the 2010s, a movement of transsexuals (mostly trans men) who argue that a person is only really trans if they meet the diagnostic criteria of gender dysphoria, because they see transsexuality as only a medical condition.<ref name="Molay2010">{{Cite web |title=Transgender, Genderqueer and Transsexual Glossary |last=Molay |first=Jack |work=CrossDreamers.com |date=25 January 2010 |access-date=27 April 2020 |url= https://www.crossdreamers.com/2010/01/transgender-and-transsexual-glossary.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315023315/https://www.crossdreamers.com/2010/01/transgender-and-transsexual-glossary.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Some truscums also believe that people with nonbinary genders are pretenders who make binary trans people look ridiculous. Because this is a reclaimed slur, people who aren't transgender shouldn't use this word, and should instead say "[[transmedicalism|trans medicalist]]" or "transmed" for short. Transgender people reacting to the truscum movement decided to call themselves "tucutes". Tucutes are opposed to dividing the transgender community into "true" and "fake" trans people.

*'''[[xenogender]]'''. Coined by Baaphomett in 2014. "A gender that cannot be contained by human understandings of gender; more concerned with crafting other methods of gender categorization and hierarchy such as those relating to animals, plants, or other creatures/things."<ref>"Masterpost of genders coined by Baaphomett." 2014. ''MOGAI Archive.'' [http://mogai-archive.tumblr.com/post/91736136744/masterpost-of-genders-coined-by-baaphomett] {{dead link}}</ref> An umbrella term for many nonbinary gender identities defined in reference to very different ideas than female or male.

*[http://web.archive.org/web/20050308185631/http:/www.chaparraltree.com/raq/angels.shtml Raphael Carter, "Angel's Dictionary."]