G.
- Gaff - Undergarment used for tucking.
- G.A.H.T. - Gender Affirming Hormone Therapy
- G.A.S. - Gender Affirming/Affirmation Surgery
- Gatekeepers - 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.
- G.C.S. - Gender Confirmation/Conversion Surgery
- Gender -
- A social construct grouping people by their presentation and actions.
- (noun) A person’s internal mental experience of themself and their relationship to “male,” “female,” “androgynous,” “genderless,” and other identities. It is distinct from a person’s assigned sex, anatomy, gender presentation, pronouns, socialization, and sexual orientation. Gender can be binary (male or female) or nonbinary (anything else). Some people do not have a gender.
- (verb) 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 - Surgery that alters a person’s appearance to better reflect their gender. Also called gender confirmation surgery.
- Gender Affirming Care - An umbrella term for any combination of social, medical, and legal measures that help make someone feel happy, healthy, and safe in their gender.
- Gender Bender/Gender Bending -
- Altering or playing with gender presentation.
- In fiction, changing either a character’s gender identity, gender presentation, or both.
- Gender Binary -
- The idea that gender consists of a strict dichotomy of male and female.
- The social construct that only grants legitimacy to two genders, male and female.
- Gender Confirmation Surgery - Surgery that alters a person’s appearance to better reflect their gender. Also called gender affirmation surgery.
- Gender Critical - A transphobic ideology.
- Gender Diversity - The inclusion of many or all genders, not just male and female.
- Gender Dysphoria - (Note that while many transgender and nonbinary people experience this, not all do.)
- 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 Euphoria - When one feels happiness regarding their gender.
- Gender Essentialism - 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.
- Gender Expression - The way in which a person demonstrates their gender identity, typically through their appearance, social role, speech, body modification choices, dress, interests, mannerisms, gestures, and behavior. Also known as "gender presentation".
- Genderflexible - Another word for genderfluid.
- Genderfluid -
- 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 - Having a gender that varies in intensity or degree over time; related to but distinct from genderfluid.
- Genderfuck -
- A form of gender presentation intended to subvert or bend traditional gender roles. This can include combining various "contradictory" fashion items.
- Deliberately sending mixed messages about one's sex, usually through dress.
- Gender presentation that deliberately seeks to violate typical standards of male or female presentation.
- Gender Identity - One's own personal sense of their gender.
- Gender Identity Disorder - The now outdated phrase used for transgender experiences in the DSM-IV.
- Gender Incongruous - When one feels a discrepancy between their gender and their AGAB.
- Genderless -
- The quality of not having a gender.
- Lacking a gender or gender identity.
- Gender Neutral -
- Not specific or restricted to any particular gender.
- Not referring to male or female, but people in general. Neither feminine nor masculine, simply human
- Gender Neutral Language - 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 Non-Conforming - When one's gender expression, behavior, appearance, and/or mannerisms do not align with that of the traditional gender norms of masculinity and femininity.
- Gender Nonconformity - Acting, speaking or dressing in a manner that is not traditionally encouraged for members of one’s gender.
- Gender Norm - An arbitrary expectation or standard that is applied to people of a certain gender.
- Gender Norms - What is normally expected of men and women in regards to behavior and self-expression.
- Gender Outlaw - A person who defies traditional gender roles.
- Gender Presentation - 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.
- Genderqueer -
- A person who does not subscribe to conventional gender distinctions, but identifies with neither, both, or a combination of masculine and feminine genders.
- 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 presentation that is not strictly male or female.
- Gender Reassignment Surgery - An incorrect term for gender affirmation surgery or gender confirmation surgery. It is incorrect because the surgery does not change the recipient’s gender, but alters the body to better reflect the gender.
- Gender Refusenik - 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 - 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 - The roles that one is expected to play in society based on their gender. For example, a man is expected to be a masculine father/son/brother while a woman is expected to be a feminine mother/daugher/sister.
- Gender Spectrum - The full range of all possible genders, including male, female, androgyne, neutral, third gender, multiple genders together, no gender, and any point in between or in combination of the above.
- Gender Therapist - A therapist specializing in the discussion of gender. They are used to sort out feelings of gender, and can give a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, which is necessary in some situations in order to medically transition.
- Gender-Variant -
- Behaving or presenting one’s gender in a way that does not fit traditional models of male or female.
- An umbrella term, similar to nonbinary and genderqueer.
- Gendervoid - When one has a void where a gender would be.
- Genetic Sex - Alternative word for biological sex.
- Girl Mode - Appearing to the world as a girl or woman, regardless of true gender.
- G.L.B.T - Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender
- G.N.C. - Gender Non-Conforming
- Graygender/Greygender - A person who identifies as (at least partially) outside the gender binary and has a strong natural ambivalence about their gender identity or gender expression.
- G.R.S. - Gender Reassignment Surgery
- G.S.A. - Gay Straight Alliance
- G.S.D. - Gender & Sexual Diversity.
- G.S.M. - Gender & Sexual Minorities
- G.S.R.M. - Gender Sexual & Romantic Minorities
- Gynandroid - Synonym for androgyne
- Gynecomastia - Uncommonly large breast tissue in a man. Typically associated with some intersex variants, but can be a side effect of certain medications.
