There are many words and phrases in the transgender, intersex and genderqueer communities that can be confusing to outsiders; or even to community members who are not yet fully familiar with all the terminology. This page collates all the available definitions T-Vox has.
If there is a definition that should be here (or a definition that has changed since our page on it was added), please contact us and we will update our resources.
The definitions we have are, in alphabetical order:
- Admirer
- Androgyny
- Atypical gender identities
- Atypical gender role
- Autogynephilia
- Bacchá
- Bedsit Land
- Bigender
- Bisexuality
- Body dysmorphic disorder
- Borderline personality disorder
- Bottom Surgery / Lower Surgery
- Butch
- Butch and femme
- Castration anxiety
- Chaser
- Chimera (animal)
- Cisgender
- Cross-dressing
- De la Chapelle syndrome
- Deep venous thrombosis
- Depilation
- Drag (clothing)
- Drag king
- Drag queen
- En femme
- Epiphysis
- Estradiol
- Estriol
- Enuch
- Evening people
- Fa’afafine
- Fakaleiti
- Falsetto
- FTM
- Galactorrhea
- Galli
- Gay
- Gender
- Gender and sexuality studies
- Gender bender
- Gender binary
- Gender identity disorder
- Gender role
- Gender studies
- Genderfuck
- Genderqueer
- Genetics and sexual orientation
- Genotype
- Glans penis
- Gonadotropin
- Gynemimetophilia
- Gynophilia
- Hermaphrodite
- Heteronormativity
- Heterosexuality
- Hijra (India)
- Hirsutism
- Homosexuality
- Homosexuality and transgender
- Hyperprolactinaemia
- Hypospadias
- Intersexuality
- Intonation
- Karyotype
- Kathoey
- Klinefelter’s syndrome
- Labiaplasty
- LGBT
- LGBTI
- Luteinizing hormone
- Lyonization
- Makeup
- Mayer-Rokitansky syndrome
- Menopause
- Metrosexual
- Micropenis
- Minoxidil
- Mosaic (genetics)
- MTF
- Multiple System
- Pangender
- Pansexual
- Paraphilia
- Penis
- Penis banding
- Persistent mullerian duct syndrome
- Phenotype
- Polycythemia
- Progestagen
- Progesterone
- Progestin-induced virilisation
- Prolactin
- Prolactinoma
- Pseudohermaphroditism
- Psychiatry
- Pulmonary embolism
- Queer
- Queer studies
- Queer theory
- Questioning
- Real life experience
- Secondary sex characteristics
- Sex
- Sex-determination system
- Sexual differentiation
- Sexual identity
- Sexual orientation
- Sexuality
- Sexuality and gender identity-based cultures
- Shemale
- Skoptic syndrome
- Sleep apnea
- SOFFA
- SRY
- Stealth
- Stud
- Swyer syndrome
- Takatapui
- Third gender
- Tomboy
- Trannychaser
- Trans men
- Trans women
- Transfeminism
- Transgender
- Transgenderism
- Transition
- Transphobia
- Transsexuality
- Transvestic fetishism
- Transvestism
- Triple-X syndrome
- Turner syndrome
- Two-spirit
- Unisexual
- Virtual boy
- Virtual girl
- Waxing
- Winkte
- X chromosome
- Xanith
- XYY
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