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More Gender

Fluidity

Being in a non-constant state (wrt gender, sexuality, etc.)

Agender/Demigender(ed)

Gender

Genderqueer

Terms related to gender

  • Genderfluid: 1) moving between genders, 2) varying in amount of gendered-ness
  • Fluidly demigendered: varying in amount of gendered-ness
  • Agender: Not having a gender, identifying with no gender or outside of gender
  • Demigender(ed): Only partially identifying with gender(s)
  • Not everyone wants the "ed" suffix; it will vary between people and contexts

Identifying outside of the gender binary or even the gender spectrum.

Bi, Tri, Multi/Poly, Pan, etc. -gender(ed)

Cisgender/Cis

Identifying as two/three/multiple/all/etc. genders.

  • Leave out the hypen: e.g., "bigender(ed)"

Identifying with one's assigned gender

Gender Expression/Presentation

Assigned Gender

Gender identity

How one performs or displays one's gender or the gender one wishes to display at the moment. Presentation may differ from identity because of safety needs or theater performance, for example.

The gender on your birth certificate and other identification (unless you've had that changed), which is tied to your assigned sex, and all the gendered expectations society dumps on you based on it.

Where you see yourself on (or off!) the gender matrix; can also include the strength of your identity with that gender.

Gender Roles

Gender Binary

Societal expectations attached to binary genders (and increasingly, to queer genders as well). Some aspects of roles are essentially harmless, others can be very bad. The issue is not so much whether an individual conforms to a gender role or not, as whether they have the freedom to choose to or not.

The societal idea that

  • there are only 2 genders,
  • those 2 genders involve certain immutable attributes,
  • gender is static, and attempts to destabilize it are bad, and
  • gender is tied to genitals

Not every binarist believes quite all these things; however, all believe at least the first statement, and most the last.

Transgender/Trans*

Genderedness

The state of not fitting into one's assigned gender

Gender vs. Sex

How much gender an individual identifies as having; how much a thing or activity is associated with a gender or genders.

"Gender is in your head, sex is between your legs"

Sex

Gender Identity

A person's physical makeup, including genitals, gonads, chromosomes, and hormones

How a person sees themself in relation to masculinity, femininity, and/ or androgyny

  • This is a super-basic definition and doesn't really begin to cover it

Sex

Terms related to sex

Sex does not equal Gender!!!

Intersex

The state of having genitals, gonads, sex-related hormones, or secondary sexual characteristics significantly outside the societal norms of solely "male" or "female."

Gonads

Genitals

Most types of intersex conditions are essentially harmless; some only affect fertility; only one, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, can be seriously physically harmful, due to hormonal effects on metabolism.

What you pee out of

Organs that produce hormones and gametes (cells with 1/2 the normal number of genes, can combine with other people's gametes to make babies)

Despite this, intersex people with genital abnormalities often face "corrective" surgeries as infants or small children in order to coercively fit them into binary norms. Such surgeries can cause severe complications, including chronic infections and sexual dysfunction. In addition, the child's gender identity may not match their assigned sex. Because of this, infant "corrective" surgeries are often seen as a human rights abuse and have been banned in some countries.

Hormones

Secondary sexual characteristics

Assigned Sex

In the context of sex (there are non-sexual hormones), chemicals that affect the development of genitals, gonads, and secondary sexual characteristics (along with some other things).

Physical details like breasts, beards, hormone levels, skin texture, voice pitch, height, etc. Societally, these are often used to "read" gender in a binarist sex-tied system, though few if any of these traits are exclusive to or necessary for being medically any sex.

What the doctor decided to put on your birth certificate.

  • If you were intersex and surgically altered without consent to fit the binary, this is called "coercively assigned sex."
  • A/DM/FAB means "Assigned/Designated Male/Female at Birth"
  • CAM/FAB means "Coercively Assigned Male/Female at Birth"
  • These are technical terms; you can decide whether you want to use/have them used for yourself or not.

Gender & Sexuality Terms

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