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* '''SOFFA'''. Short for Significant Others, Friends, Family, and Allies. This means people who aren't LGBT+, but who care about and help LGBT+ people.<ref name="UWM" /> | * '''SOFFA'''. Short for Significant Others, Friends, Family, and Allies. This means people who aren't LGBT+, but who care about and help LGBT+ people.<ref name="UWM" /> | ||
* '''SRS.''' Sex Reassignment [[Surgery]]. Generally this refers to the category of procedures colloquially called [[bottom surgery]], but might also be used for other surgeries sometimes. | * '''SRS.''' Sex Reassignment [[Surgery]]. Generally this refers to the category of procedures colloquially called [[bottom surgery]], but might also be used for other surgeries sometimes. | ||
* '''stealth'''. In the transgender community, this means that a transgender person is living so that other people see them as the gender they want to be, while keeping it a secret that they are transgender.<ref>"Passing." ''Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki.'' [https://susans.org/wiki/Passing]</ref> Transgender women and transgender can be closeted, out, or stealth. In a culture that doesn't recognize | * '''stealth'''. In the transgender community, this means that a transgender person is living so that other people see them as the gender they want to be, while keeping it a secret that they are transgender.<ref>"Passing." ''Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki.'' [https://susans.org/wiki/Passing]</ref> Transgender women and transgender can be closeted, out, or stealth. In a culture that doesn't recognize nonbinary genders, it is impossible to be a stealth nonbinary person, because that society has no nonbinary role to enter. In that situation, the only two options are to be closeted (you make sure nobody knows you're nonbinary) or out (you make sure everybody knows you're nonbinary, which isn't stealth). | ||
* '''[[stone]]'''. A certain queer sexual identity. Specific kinds include [[Butch#Stone butch|stone butch]] and stone femme. Some see these as nonbinary genders. | * '''[[stone]]'''. A certain queer sexual identity. Specific kinds include [[Butch#Stone butch|stone butch]] and stone femme. Some see these as nonbinary genders. | ||
* '''[[stud]]'''. "An African-American and/or Latina masculine lesbian."<ref name="GreenPeterson" /> | * '''[[stud]]'''. "An African-American and/or Latina masculine lesbian."<ref name="GreenPeterson" /> | ||