LGBTSS Terminology
Transgender: someone whose self-identification or expression challenges traditional notions of “male” and “female.”
Transgender people may include: transsexuals, crossdressers, drag queens and kings, gender queer, and others who cross or transgress traditional gender categories
Transsexual: Someone whose gender identity is different from their gender identity at birth. Transsexuals often undergo hormone treatments and gender reassignment surgeries to align their anatomy with their core identity, but not all desire or are able to do so.
Gender Identity: What we perceive and call ourselves, though most people develop a gender identity that matches their birth-assigned sex. Others, however, experience their gender identity as different or separate from their birth-assigned sex.
Gender Expression: Everything we do that communicates our sex/gender to others: clothing, hair styles, mannerisms, way of speaking, roles we take in interactions, etc.
Biological Sex: A system set by the medical establishment usually based on reproductive organs or number of certain chromosomes in the DNA.
Gender: The social construction of masculinity and femininity in a specific culture, involving gender assignment, gender roles, gender attribution, and gender identity.
Cisgender: Someone who has a gender identity that agrees with their societally recognized sex
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