Gender and Sex are 2 COMPLETELY different things.
-Sex
Your assigned gender at birth and/or the gender of your reproductive organs
-Gender
Where you feel that you personally fall on the spectrum between male and female. Commonly people identify as male or female, but some fall in the middle or move throughout the spectrum.
-Cisgender
When you identify with the gender you were assigned at birth
-Transgender
When you identify with a gender different than that you were assigned at birth
-Transsexual
When you have had Gender Reassignment Surgery (GRS) to change the sexual organs you were born with to that of a different gender.
-Male to Female (MtF)
When somebody that is assigned as a male at birth identifies as a female
1Female to Male (FtM)
When somebody that is assigned as a female at birth identifies as a male.
-Binary
The genders at each end of the gender spectrum (male and female)
-Non-Binary
An umbrella term for genders that fall somewhere in the middle of the gender spectrum and are neither strictly male or female. This can be used as a gender identification without further explanation. Sometimes the term, genderqueer, is used.
-Genderfluid
Moving between genders or having a fluctuating gender identity
-Agender
Not identifying with any gender. Sometimes referred to as being genderless or gendervoid.
-Bigender
Identifying as two genders, commonly (but not exclusively) male and female. Sometimes you feel like both genders at the same time and sometimes you fluctuate.
-Polygender
When you identify with multiple genders at once. Sometimes referred to as multigender.
-Neutrois- When you identify as agender, neither male nor female, and/or genderless
-Gender Apathetic
When you really do not identify nor care about any particular gender. You are fine passing off as whatever and you really do not have an opinion towards your own gender.
-Androgyne
This term overlaps a lot between gender identification and presentation. It can be used to describe others and as an identification. This term is used to describe people who are neither male nor female or are both male and female. Basically anyone who does not fit into a binary gender category.
-Intergender
Somebody who's gender is somewhere between male and female
-Demigender
When you feel as if you are one part a defined gender and one or more parts an undefined gender. Terms can include demigirl, demiboy, demiagender, ect.
-Greygender
Somebody with a weak gender identification of themselves
1Aporagender
Somebody with a strong gender identification of themselves that is non-binary
-Maverique
A non-binary gender that exists outside of the orthodox social bounds of gender
-Novigender
A gender that is super complex and impossible to describe in a single term
-Designated gender
A gender assigned at birth based on an individuals sex and/or what gender society percieves a person to be
-AFAB
Assigned Female At Birth
-AMAB
Assigned Male At Birth
-Gender roles
Certain behaviors an activities expected/considered acceptable of people in a particular society based upon their designated gender
-Gender Presentation
The gender you present yourself to others. This is sometimes referred to as gender expression
-Transitioning
The process of using medical means to change your sex
-Intersex
A biological difference in sex that is when people are born with genitals, gonads, and/or chromosomes that do not match up exactly with male or female. Intersex individuals can have any romantic/sexual orientation and can have any gender identification. Intersex individuals are about as common as redheads.
-Dyadic
Someone who is not intersex and when their gentinals, gonads, and chromosomes can all match into either a male or female category
-Trans Woman
Someone who is assigned as a male at birth, but identifies as a woman
-Trans Man
Someone who is assigned as a female at birth, but identifies as a man
-Trans Feminine
Someone who identifies as feminine, but identifies as neither a man nor a woman. They must also be assigned male at birth.
-Trans Masculine
Someone who identifies as masculine, but identifies as neither a man nor a woman. They must also be assigned female at birth.
-Social Dysphoria
Discomfort experienced when acting in ways socially different than your gender or being addressed in ways different to your gender
Body Dysphoria- Discomfort experienced because of the difference between gender and your sex, role, or gender expression
-Butch
A term used to describe someone who's gender expression is more masculine than feminine. This is commonly used in describing women or lesbians.
-Femme (Fem)
A term used to describe someone who's gender expression is more feminine than masculine. This is commonly used in describing women or lesbians.
-Binarism
Putting gender strictly into two categories (male and female) and refusing to acknowledge genders outside of male and female.
There is know to be hundreds of genders out there! Here are just some of the few ones we know!
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