Gatekeepers - (n.) - People who have the power to progress or halt a trans person’s journey of transition. These can include doctors, government officials, employers, family members, and more.
(v.) - To treat someone as if they are of a particular gender. This takes many forms, the most common of which are pronouns.
Gender Affirmation Surgery - (n.) - Surgery that alters a person’s appearance to better reflect their gender. Also called gender confirmation surgery.
Gender Affirming Care - (n.) - An umbrella term for any combination of social, medical, and legal measures that help make someone feel happy, healthy, and safe in their gender.
This term describes someone who doesn’t strongly identify with any gender or with any gender labels.
Some gender apathetic people also use terms that indicate their relationship with the sex or gender assigned to them at birth - such as cis apathetic or trans apathetic - while others don’t.
Generally, people who are gender apathetic display an attitude of flexibility, openness, and “not caring” about how gender identity or presentation is perceived and labeled by others.
When one feels distress regarding the difference between their internal sense of gender, and their outward sense of gender, their body, or the way that others see them.
A feeling of discomfort, stress, confusion or negativity that is caused by a mismatch between one’s assigned sex and one’s actual gender. Can be either body dysphoria or social dysphoria, or both.
The phrase used for transgender experiences in the DSM-V.
Gender Essentialism - (n.) - The belief that there are intrinsic and unchangeable differences between genders, and that these differences manifest as anatomy, chromosomes, behavior, socialization and/or gender roles. A key component of transphobia.
Gendered Experience - (n.) - Referring to the distinct ways in which an individual experiences life, challenges, and societal expectations based on zirgender identity.
Gender Experience - (n.) - Referring to the combination of one'sgender, desired/current presentation, dysphoria, and other expression.
Gender Expansive - (adj.) - An umbrella term that’s used to refer to people who subvert or don’t conform to society’s dominant view of gender. This could include trans people, nonbinary people, people who are gender non-conforming, and more.
Gender Expression - (n.) - The way in which a person demonstrates theirgender identity, typically through their appearance, social role, speech, body modification choices, dress, interests, mannerisms, gestures, and behavior. Similar to gender presentation.
A gender which is not fixed; instead changing between different genders.
Having a gender that is changeable. Genderfluid people may shift between multiple genders over time, or feel gender in different ways over time.
Genderflux - (adj.) - Having a gender that varies in intensity or degree over time; related to but distinct from genderfluid.
Genderfree - (adj.) - Free from gender. Can be applied to people/objects/anything that is not associated with a particular gender. See also gender neutral.
The social hierarchy of gender. Generally speaking, society places men above women.
The way in which this affects people will vary depending on factors such as location, whether or not someone is cisgender or transgender (and if they are transgender, how well they pass), if someone is gnc, and race.
Gender Identity - (n.) - One's own personal sense of their gender.
Gender Identity Disorder - (n.) - The now outdated phrase used for transgender experiences in the DSM-IV.
Gender Incongruous - (adj.) - When one feels a discrepancy between theirgender and their AGAB.
Gender Marker - (n.) - A single capital letter found on identification cards, birth certificates, and passports. This letter is used to indicate one's legal gender.
Gender Neutrality - (n.) - The quality of not being associated with a particular or distinct gender.
Gender Neutral Language - (n.) - The use of nouns, titles and pronouns in such a way as to avoid specifying gender. This is useful for making environments and discussions more accessible to trans and nonbinary people.
Gender Presentation - (adj.) - The way that a person’s gender superficially appears to onlookers, which may be affected by anatomy, clothing, makeup, hairstyle, speech patterns and body language. May also include a person’s stated desire to be treated as a certain gender and referred to with certain pronouns.
A person who does not subscribe to conventional gender distinctions, but identifies with neither, both, or a combination of masculine and femininegenders.
An umbrella term that includes all gender identities other than strictly male or strictly female. Covers the same set of people as “nonbinary,” but it has different social and political connotations, and is more strongly associated with “queering gender” and the queer political movement.
Gender Refusenik - (adj.) - A term for people who are denied SRS, whether due to lack of funds or psychological paternalism. All gender refuseniks are non-ops.
Gender Role - (n.) - A set of expectations, standards, and cultural pressures associated with a particular gender. People may freely choose to follow or disregard gender roles. Conformity to gender roles does not reflect a person’s actual gender; cis people who violate gender roles do not become trans, nor do trans people need to follow traditional gender roles in order for their genders to be valid.
Gender Roles - (n.) - The roles that one is expected to play in society based on theirgender. For example, a man is expected to be a masculine father/son/brother while a woman is expected to be a feminine mother/daughter/sister.
Gynecomastia - (n.) - Uncommonly large breast tissue in a man. Typically associated with some intersex variants, but can be a side effect of certain medications.
