Some find this term to be inaccurate or questionable as it puts a lot of the focus of trans identity on physical transition.Ĭross dresser: Someone who dresses as and presents themselves as a gender other than the one with which they typically identify. For example, cis people don’t have to worry about violence and institutionalized discrimination due to the fact they are cis.Ĭissexism: Erasing trans people and their experiences, and/or expressing hatred and bigotry toward trans people.Ĭissexual: Sometimes this term is used synonymously with cisgender, other times it functions as an opposite to transsexual in referring to someone who has done nothing to physically change gendered parts their body. "Cisgender" is preferred to terms like "biological", "genetic", or "real" male or female.Ĭisgender Privilege: The privileges cisgender people have because their gender identities match their assigned gender and because they are considered “normal”. Cisgender is the opposite of transgender/trans. The prefix ‘Cis’ is of Latin origin, meaning "on the same side as or of” therefore someone who is cisgender has a conception of their gender concept/gender identity matches the gender they were assigned at birth.
The Latin prefix cis means “on the same side of.” Cisgender is often shortened to cis. These terms have been co-opted by trans people but this needs to stop as these are intersex specific terms.Ĭisgender: Someone whose gender identity matches the gender they were assigned at birth, someone who is not trans. These terms refer to what gender intersex people are assigned at birth and reflect the specific way that intersex people are coerced into one of two limited gender categories which attempt to erase their difference. Butch can also be a gender identity to some.ĬAFAB/CAMAB: Coercively assigned female at birth and coercively assigned male at birth respectively. They can include: vaginoplasty, phalloplasty, vaginectomy, metoidoplasty, orchidectomy, scrotoplasty and others.īutch: A masculine gender expression which can be used to describe people of any gender. One who enjoys being perceived as a young male and intentionally identifies with “boy” rather than “man.”īottom surgery: Any of a variety of gender-related surgeries dealing with genitalia. A female-bodied person who expresses or presents themselves in a culturally/stereotypically masculine, particularly boyish way. Also supporting the incorrect idea that the only legitimate genders are man and woman, and ignoring all others.īoi (pronounced boy): 1. They may shift between these genders or be all of them at the same time.īinarism: Erasing, ignoring or expressing hate towards people who identify outside of the gender binary. Androgynes may define their identity in a variety of ways, feeling as if they are between man and woman or a totally separate identity.Īndrogynous: Having neither a clearly masculine or feminine appearance or blending masculine and feminine.īigender/Trigender/Pangender: People who feel they are two, three, or all genders. These terms refer to what gender you were assigned at birth (in this case male, thus you are expected to be a boy/man), and are important because many trans people use them as a way to talk about their gender identity without being pinned down to more essentialist narratives about their “sex” or what gender they “used to be”.Īndrogyne: As a gender identity it can overlap with an androgynous gender expression but not always. These terms refer to what gender you were assigned at birth (in this case female, thus you are expected to be a girl/woman), and are important because many trans people use them as a way to talk about their gender identity without being pinned down to more essentialist narratives about their “sex” or what gender they “used to be”.Īgender: Some agender people would define their identity as being neither a man nor a woman while others would define agender as not having any gender.ĪMAB/MAAB: Assigned male at birth and male assigned at birth respectively. AFAB/FAAB: Assigned female at birth and female assigned at birth respectively.
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