Glossary of English gender and sex terminology: Difference between revisions

* '''boydyke'''. A person who identifies as a lesbian woman, and has a masculine gender expression.<ref name="hans" />

* '''[[cross-dreamer]]'''. Coined by cross-dreamer Jack Molay.<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}}</ref> Someone who feels sexually aroused by the thought of being a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth. They may or may not cross-dress or consider themselves transgender.<ref>Jack Molay, "Crossdreaming described." August 3, 2014. [http://www.crossdreamers.com/2014/08/crossdreaming-described.html]</ref>

* '''[[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}}</ref>

* '''[[gender expression]]'''. "The way in which a person expresses their gender identity through clothing, behavior, posture, mannerisms, speech patterns, activities and more."<ref name="Berkeley2019" />

* '''[[gender identity]]'''. "An individual’s internal sense of gender, which may or may not be the same as one’s gender assigned at birth."<ref name="Berkeley2019" /> Most people identify as the gender that they were assigned at birth. They are described as '[[cisgender]]'.

* '''[[Gender Identity Disorder]] (GID)'''. "The medical diagnosis in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostics and Statistics Manual IV (DSM4) used to describe a person who experiences significant gender dysphoria (lack of identification with one’s sex and/or gender assigned at birth)."<ref name="Berkeley2013" />

* '''[[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" />

* '''institutional oppression'''. "Arrangement of a society used to benefit one group at the expense of another through the use of language, media education, religion, economics, etc."<ref name="Berkeley2019" />

* '''internalized oppression'''. "The process by which an oppressed person comes to believe, accept, or live out the inaccurate stereotypes and misinformation about their group."<ref name="Berkeley2013" />

* '''invisible minority'''. "A group whose minority status is not always immediately visible, such as some disabled people and LGBT+IQ people. This lack of visibility may make organizing for rights difficult."<ref name="Berkeley2013" />

* '''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>

* '''[[pumping]]'''. A body modification to the phallus, which may be part of the physical transition of trans people in the female-to-male spectrum.

* '''secondary sex characteristics'''. "Physical characteristics that emerge with the onset of puberty, including but not limited to: facial and body hair growth, muscle development, voice changes, breast development, and the ability to reproduce."<ref name="hans" />

* '''sex reassignment surgery'''. "A term used by some medical professionals to refer to a group of surgical options that alter a person’s sex to match their sex identity."<ref name="Berkeley2013" />

* '''[[cissexism#Truscum|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}}</ref>> Truscum also believe that people with non-binary genders are pretenders who make true trans people look ridiculous. Because this is a reclaimed slur, people who aren't transgender shouldn't use this word, and should instead say "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.