The Transgender Dictionary

Reasons

(also: acknowledgments, excuses, grounds, guises, pretexts, rationales)

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Introduction: Origins of This Dictionary

The Transgender Dictionary originated as a read-only channel on a now-deleted discord server of my own creation. I kept coming across words with meanings that I wanted to keep track of, as well as useful YouTube videos that I didn't want to lose. This alphabetized list started getting pretty detailed as more and more members of the discord server suggested more and more terms.

I tried getting more and more people to join the server to check out this list. These attempts were largely unsuccessful, and it was brought to my attention that having this information locked in a discord server made the information inaccessible to others.

After some contemplation, I made a new version of this "dictionary" that consisted of numerous Google Docs all linked to one another. I was told by someone on Discord that it was bad to force people to use Google Docs to access information. This got me thinking some more.

Using the website builder known as "carrd" I made a new version of The Transgender Dictionary. The problem with carrd is that there is a limit to the number of available assets for a website, even with premium, and I got pretty sick of paying for premium. After that, I remembered that I knew how to do basic coding in HTML, and decided to make a neocities website https://pensarecool.neocities.org/thetransgenderdictionary/homepage.

Then, I realized that it would probably be a good idea to make the website have a custom URL. The current version of this website is not free to keep up. You can support the current version of this website via patreon. Thank you.

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General Information

This page contains miscellaneous information about The Transgender Dictionary and its creator (James). This information comes in the form of various lists, anecdotes, and occasional images.

You may have noticed that the pages of this website are of varying quality. Not all pages are maintained/updated at the same pace. As I have ADHD, I tend to jump around from page to page based on whatever topic catches my interest, what I am thinking about at any given moment, how much free time I have to work on the website, etc.

Ideally, all of the pages will be as detailed, interesting, easy to read, and informative as [insert whatever is the best looking page so far] at some point. What point will that be? Who knows! As previously mentioned, this is a personal projct made by oen person. Was that previously mentioned? Who knows.

To speed things up, consider supporting me and/or sending me messages regarding things on this website that you think that I should prioritize. Whenver I have free time, I go and check those messages to see what I have to work on. This is a fun project for me, and I like to help people, but I am a busy man and do not always have the time for doing intense research.

This is a resource intended to be shared with as many people as possible to help as many people as possible. I always strive to improve the contents of this website. Please point out typos, errors, etc. I really appreciate everyone who has helped me so far. Thank you.

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My Pets

I have numerous pets. They make me happy. The following sections contain images of my pets and such. These creatures have been sorted in alphabetical order according to first name.

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Booger

Booger is currently housed in a 55 gallon aquarium alongside Gary. Booger is brothers with George. Booger was obtained from Twin Cities Axolotl. Booger is used for breeding purposes.

Photo of Booger

Image Description: Dark brown axolotl looking at camera with light yellow axolotl in background.

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Cookie currently lives in a 75 gallon aquarium alongside Gracie and Void. Cookie is used for breeding purposes.

Photo of Cookie

A light pink axolotl with pink gills, black eyes, and transparent pupils standing on a large aquarium decoration facing the camera. Blue floor tiles can be seen in the background through the aquarium glass.

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Gary

Gary is currently housed in a 55 gallon aquarium along with Booger. Gary is sibilings with Grover and Gracie. Gary is used for breeding purposes.

Photo of Gary

Image Description: Pale yellow axolotl with light pink gills floating in the corner of an aquarium. He is facing the corner and a perfect reflection of him can be seen in the surface of the water.

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George (Ambystoma mexicanum)

George is currently housed in a 55 gallon aquarium alongside Grover. George is brothers with Booger and was obtained from Twin Cities Axolotl. George is used for breeding purposes.

Photo of George.

Image Description: Black axolotl with black eyes lying on a transparent platform attatched to the side of the aquarium with his legs splayed out on either side as he faces the camera next to a plastic plant.

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Ghost

Ghost is currently housed in a 55 gallon aquarium alongside a school of tetras and a school of loaches. Ghost was acquired from PetSmart 03/22/2026.

A pale betta fish in the corner of an aquarium resting in the sand. A neon tetra and some aquatic plants can also be seen.

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Gracie

Gracie is currently housed in a 75 gallon aquarium alongside Cookie and Void. Gracie is sibilings with Gary and Grover. Gracie is used for breeding purposes.

Photo of Gracie

Pale yellow axolotl with red gills and transparent eyes standing on a transparent platform attatched to the side of the aquarium.

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Grover

Grover is currently housed in a 55 gallon aquarium along with George. Grover is sibilings with Gracie and Gary. Grover is used for breeding purposes.

Photo of Grover

Image Description: Pale yellow axolotl with light pink gills and transparent eyes standing on the floor of an aquarium with a large piece of driftwood behind him.

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Jellybean

Jellybean currently lives with his sibilings (Jerry, Pasta, & Noodle) as well as with June in a custom-built cat shed. If Jellybean has access to a roll of paper towels, he will attempt to eat it/shred it and it will be destroyed.

Photo of Jellybean

Orange cat with orange eyes standing at the top of an off-white cat tower facing the camera.

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Jerry Garcia

(More commonly known simply as "Jerry")

Jerry is currently housed in a custom built cat shed alongside his sibilings (Jellybean, Pasta, & Noodle) and June.

Photo of Jerry

Slightly blurry white cat with yellow eyes standing on his hind legs on a blue couch facing the camera.

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Junie B. Jones (the "B" stands for Beatrice)

(Or simply just "June")

June was aquired in the summer of 2022 by one of my exs. The cat is now mine because her food ended up full of maggots while in the care of said ex, as she was apparently unable to manage the simple task of caring for an animal (I had to clean that up btw it was nasty af). June currently lives in a custom built cat shed alongside her other feline companions known as Jerry, Pasta, Noodle, and Jellybean. June's favorite toy is the blue feather wand toy.

Image Description: Photo of a grey cat with green eyes staring at the camera while perched on the armrest of a blue couch. There is a rainbow-cannabis american flag hanging out in the background.

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Motorbike

(More commonly known as "Mike")

Motorbike was obtained via Craigslist during the summer of 2021. He was described as a rescue and presumed male. He was being housed in a 40 gallon aquarium with apsen substrate, which was provided alonside him. He now resides in a 4x2x2 PVC bioactive enclosure with live plants and isopods. His enclosure is watered several times per week, and he is fed approximately every 4-5 weeks.

Photo of Motorbike

Image Description: An adult normal morph ball python is curled around a transgender man sitting cross-legged on a carpeted floor. The snake is black and brown with a white underbelly, and is looking at the camera. A 40gallon tank can be seen in the background. Please note that Motorbike has a different enclosure that is larger.

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Noodle

Noodle was obtained after a random cat off the street (her name is Princess) gave birth underneath my kitchen sink at an old apartment. Noodle now lives with her sibilings (Jerry, Pasta, & Jellybean) along with June in a custom-built cat shed.

Photo of Noodle

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Pasta

Pasta lives in a custom-built cat shed alongside her sibilings (Jellybean, Jerry, & Noodle) and June.

Photo of Pasta

Image Description: Calico cat with yellow-green eyes standing on a red and black cat tower.

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Skateboard

Skateboard was obtained at a reptile expo in November of 2025 from a breeder known as "Zerkle Reptile Co." He currently lives in a 45 gallon glass enclosure. It is bioactive with sandy areas, soil areas, plants, and isopods.

Photo of Skateboard

Image Description: A small orange and brown snake faces the camera. His eye is yellow with a black verticle pupil. His face is resting on the dirt. The rest of him is draped over a succulent.

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Vespa Scooter

(Also known as "Scoots" for short.)

Vespa Scooter was obtained at a reptile expo in fall of 2023 from a breeder known as "Double Take Snakes." He was made available via raffle. He currently lives in the old 40 gallon aquarium which previously housed Motorbike, though at this point the enclosure has been made to be bioactive with plants, isopods, and the appropriate substrate.

Photo of Vespa Scooter

Image Description: A sub-adult hypo/ghost morph ball python taking a sip of water out of a 3D printed red water dish. The snake is grey with yellow patterns. In front of him, there is some live moss. Behind him, his body emerges from a grey hide, and there is a cork bark round in the background.

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Void

Void is currently housed in a 75 gallon aquarium alongside Cookie and Gracie. Void is used for breeding purposes.

Photo of Void

Image description: A large black aquatic salamander standing on a large plastic plant in the corner of an aquarium. Her left feet are against the corner of the glass.

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My stance on generative A.I.

In theory, artificial intelligence is a cool thing. In movies and tv shows, it is great. Generative A.I. and modern day chatbots posess no intelligence. They consist of stolen words and images that have been distorted and twisted into something repulsive. Engaging with A.I. chatbots will make your mental health and ability to interact with other people worse.

Companies who use generative A.I. in place of real actors and creativity are disgusting. If you cannot be bothered to put in the effort to advertise or create something, why should anyone engage in your product.

Students who use generative A.I., so-called A.I. search engines, chatbots, etc. are lazy. You are not learning anything. You are not bettering yourself. You are not benefiting from doing this.

Anyone using chatbots in place of attempting to talk to genuine human beings is simply a sad sight to see. However, I must acknowledge that these things are designed to be addictive and should be treated as such. It is poison for your brain.

A.I. generated "art" is not art. Do not treat it as such. If you are genuinely creative and have something to contribute, go do it. I would much rather look at "bad" art that was created by a person than an artificially generated image that says nothing and means nothing because it was conjured up via scraps of talent stolen from genuine artists.

If you feed any part of The Transgender Dictionary into any sort of A.I. slop machine, I have no respect for you. You suck!

Modern day generative A.I. does not posess any intelligence. They are designed to rob their users of intelligence. They are designed to make people lazier and stupider and stop thinking too hard about things.

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My Stance on Scrolling

On the one hand, pretty much the entire internet is built around scrolling. Even The Transgender Dictionary can be primarily navigated via scrolling (though I do try to break it up a bit with clickable/tapable hyperlinks here and there). Everyone scrolls these days in some way or another, and there are endless opportunities to do it.

Social media traps people into a strange, hypnotic state where you stare at the screen, endlessly scrolling with minimal enjoyment.

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List of Reasons

This is a list of reasons why I decided to make this website. These list of reasons are not in any particular order, but are numbered to keep track of the total number of reasons. This list will be updated over time, much as will be the rest of this website. Edits can be seen on internet archive.

  1. To keep track of all these new acronyms that people keep coming up with.

  2. To compile my research.

  3. To feel important.

  4. To keep track of important and/or interesting links that I come across.

  5. To be able to provide specific links to people during conversations to explain something that I have had to explain to someone more than one time in similar, repetitive conversations.

  6. To be more efficient in the comments on r/FTM.

  7. To encourage cisgender people to read up and learn about transgender topics in a simple, easy-to-digest way that does not require those cisgender people to ask a million invasive questions to random transgender people who probably don't even have the answers to half of those questions, because obviously, not every transgender person has this much knowledge on this many different topics (I suppose at this point, you could consider me to be a statistical outlier).

  8. To bring awareness of more obscure transgender topics.

  9. To create as comprehensive and interesting of a resource that I would have wanted to stumble across when I was a scared child who didn't know what was wrong with me and wanted to desperately find out what the right words were to describe my experiences were.

  10. To force myself to research topics relating to transgender women that I would not have previously researched.

  11. To make a list of every dead trans person that I learn about, to make sure that I never forget their names.

  12. To bring awareness to transgender people.

  13. To promote other useful resources to those who need them, and encourage everyone to research things as much as possible before forming conclusions.

  14. To make as much information as possible be easily accessible, even if a page isn't entierly done yet, and I still need to do more research (this way, at least someone who doesn't know anything can know a little bit, and be aware that something even exists before the page is as in-depth as possible.

  15. I wanted to make a brightly colored website.

  16. So that I can feel like I've done soemthing useful.

  17. To preserve information that may be lost.

  18. To help out anyone trying to figure out where to start when it comes to learning more about the wonder that is the transgender community.

  19. I made this website because I am autistic and really like dictionaries.

  20. To unite the community to focus on being productive and helping one another.

  21. As an excuse to learn more about topics that I would not have otherwise had a personal reason to learn about.

  22. To make a table including the pronoun set it/its, because whenever I tell people that my pronouns are it/its, they get confused and think that this pronoun set is actually "it/it's" which is incorrect.

  23. To make a table including the pronoun set xe/xem, because it is easier than constantly having to explain how those pronouns are used.

  24. I also use he/him pronouns.

  25. I am also genderqueer.

  26. To be able to help out any scared or confused trans kids who feel like they are alone.

  27. To encourage anyone who is scared of self-discovery to become who they were always meant to be and live as their true selves.

  28. To provide a resource for those who are tempted to say "its not my job to educate you." You are correct that it is not your job to educate others, but that's unhelpful for clueless people with questions.

  29. To provided basic definitions for when they are needed during petty discourse and similar arguments.

  30. People are always making list of trans-related resources on social media and such. I figured that putting them all in one place would make things easier.

  31. Seriously though, there are so many useful lists of trans-related resources out there that end up lost of time because they are on some random social media website or whatever. I want to put as many of those in one place to be useful to whoever needs them.

  32. To maybe make a bit of extra money through donations. (I mean, considering how much time I have spent on this website, I feel like I deserve it.)

  33. To help dispel common misconceptions regarding transgender people.

  34. To help attempt to standardize some of the language used in the transgender community.

  35. To bring awareness to more obscure terminology.

  36. To try and make some money (scroll down to ways you can support).

  37. To try and encourage people to read from more than one source on the same topic. Just, in general.

  38. The world is becoming increasingly hostile to trans people for absolutely no reason. The same common arguments based in misinformation keep being repeated over and over as poor excuses to harm other people. It's horrible. Something needs to change. There needs to be more readily accessible information for basic concepts that keep getting mangled by bigots.

  39. To try and convince my great aunt that being transgender is not a bad thing and that it should be respected as a well-documented concept with no particular morality attached.

  40. Trying to make a website that is as accessible and easy to navigate as I can.

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Ancestry

Below is my Ancestry DNA results. Do not question me on matters regarding race. I will not discuss them. I will allow those who are more qualified to speak on such topics to do so. I will discuss gender and sexuality related topics (mostly gender, its more interesting to me), but I will not discuss racial issues. I will, however, link other perspectives on topics wherever relevant.

Edit: Got a notification that apparently my results are now more specific?

https://www.bbb.org/us/ut/lehi/profile/genealogy/ancestrycom-1166-2003190

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Why I Chose Not To Have Nipples

On February 7, 2022, I had a double incision mastectomy without nipple grafts. This means that I do not have nipples or breasts. Below is a list of miscellaneous reasons why I chose this. These reasons are not ranked in any particular order, simply in whatever order I can recall said reasons. These reasons are not all of the same level of personal importance.

  1. More aerodynamic.

  2. Didn't like them anyway.

  3. More space for tattoos (if I ever manage to afford it). While I currently have no tattoos, I have several ideas for tattoos in the chest area. Potentially buttons where the nipples "should" be. Maybe googly eyes. Or something.

  4. Analyzing people's reactions.

  5. To test censorship. Typically, nipples are what get censored on things such as social media. If I have none, what is there to be offended by?

  6. #FreeTheNipple

  7. It looks cool.

  8. Faster healing time after surgery (was not deliberate but found this out after surgery).

  9. Look like an anime boy lol.

  10. Trauma.

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These links are not affiliated with The Transgender Dictionary, however, I do think that they are useful and that you should consider checking them out.

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This whole website was made by one guy. Xe maintains this website in his spare time. If you'd like to help him (and by him I mean me) out, there are various ways to do that below!!!

Ways to contact me about things.

Things you can buy.

Monetary donations appreciated. Think of it like supporting Wikipedia, but instead of Wikipedia its one guy who made a website to try and help people.

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See also the pages for: coming out, homepage, double incision.

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