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“Comprehensive List of LGBTQ+ Definitions”

(Source: Anti-traditional group, “It’s Called Metrosexual,” popular at colleges and universities for providing terms for the new “nonstereotyped” American culture.)

1) LGBPTTQQIIAA+: any combination of letters identity (e.g., a wearing a dress) for any attempting to represent all the identities in the one of many reasons, including relaxation, fun, and community, this near-exhaustive one (but not sexual gratification; often conflated with exhaustive) represents , , Bisexual, transsexuality Pansexual, , , Queer, 18) King: a person who consciously performs Questioning, , Intergender, Asexual, Ally “,” usually in a show or theatre 2) Advocate: a person who actively works to end setting, presenting an exaggerated form of intolerance, educate others, and support social masculine expression, oftentimes done by a equity for a group ; often confused with “transsexual” or 3) Ally: a straight person who supports queer people “transvestite” 4) : (1) a that has 19) Drag : a person who consciously performs elements of both masculinity and ; (2) “femininity,” usually in a show or theatre setting, occasionally used in place of “intersex” to describe presenting an exaggerated form of feminine a person with both and male anatomy expression, oftentimes done by a man; often 5) Androsexual/Androphilic: attracted to males, men, confused with “transsexual” or “transvestite” and/or masculinity 20) : a derogatory slang term used for lesbian 6) Asexual: a person who generally does not women; reclaimed by many lesbian women as a experience sexual attraction (or very little) to any symbol of pride and used as an in-group term group of people 21) : a derogatory slang term used for ; 7) Bigender: a person who fluctuates between reclaimed by many gay men as a symbol of pride traditionally “woman” and “man” gender-based and used as an in-group term behavior and identities, identifying with both 22) Female: a person with a specific set of sexual (and sometimes a ) anatomy (e.g., 46,XX phenotype, vagina, ovaries, 8) Binary Gender: a traditional and outdated view of uterus, , higher levels of , fine body gender, limiting possibilities to “man” and hair) pursuant to this label “woman” 23) Fluid(ity): generally with another term attached, 9) Binary : a traditional and outdated view of sex, like gender-fluid or fluid-sexuality, fluid(ity) limiting possibilities to “female” or “male” describes an identity that is a fluctuating mix of the 10) Biological sex: the physical anatomy and gendered options available (e.g., man and woman, gay and hormones one is born with, generally described as straight); not to be confused with “transitioning” male, female, or intersex, and often confused 24) FTM/MTF: a person who has undergone medical with gender treatments to change their biological sex 11) Bisexual: a person who experiences sexual, (Female To Male, or Male To Female), oftentimes romantic, physical, and/or spiritual attraction to to align it with their ; often confused people of their own gender as well as another with “trans-man”/”trans-woman” gender; often confused for and used in place of 25) Gay: a term used to describe a man who is attracted “pansexual” to men, but often used and embraced by women to 12) : a description for a person whose gender describe their same-sex relationships as well identity, gender expression, and biological sex all 26) Gender Expression: the external display of gender, align (e.g., man, masculine, and male) through a combination of dress, demeanor, social 13) Cis-man: a person who identifies as a man, presents behavior, and other factors, generally measured on himself masculinely, and has male biological a scale of masculinity and femininity sex, often referred to as simply “man” 27) Gender Identity: the internal perception of an 14) Cis-woman: a person who identifies as a woman, individual’s gender, and how they label themselves presents herself femininely, and has female 28) Genderless: a person who does not identify with biological sex, often referred to as simply “woman” any gender 15) : a person who is keeping their sexuality or 29) Genderqueer: (1) a blanket term used to describe gender identity a secret from many (or any) people, people whose gender falls outside of the gender and has yet to “come out of the closet” binary; (2) a person who identifies as both a man 16) : the process of revealing your and a woman, or as neither a man nor a sexuality or gender identity to individuals in your woman; often used in exchange with “transgender” life; often incorrectly thought to be a one-time 30) Gynesexual/Gynephilic: attracted to , event, this is a lifelong and sometimes daily women, and/or femininity process; not to be confused with “” 31) Hermaphrodite: an outdated medical term used to 17) Cross-dressing: wearing clothing that conflicts with describe someone who is intersex; not used today as the traditional gender expression of your sex and it is considered to be medically stigmatizing, and

also misleading as it means a person who is 100% 44) : the type of sexual, romantic, male and female, a biological impossibility for physical, and/or spiritual attraction one feels for humans others, often labeled based on the gender 32) : behavior that grants preferential relationship between the person and the people they treatment to heterosexual people, reinforces the idea are attracted to; often mistakenly referred to as that is somehow better or more “sexual preference” “right” than queerness, or ignores/doesn’t address 45) Sexual Preference: (1) generally when this term is queerness as existing used, it is being mistakenly interchanged with 33) Heterosexual: a medical definition for a person who “sexual orientation,” creating an illusion that one is attracted to someone with the other gender (or, has a choice (or “preference”) in who they are literally, biological sex) than they have; often attracted to; (2) the types of sexual intercourse, referred to as “straight” stimulation, and gratification one likes to receive 34) : fear, anger, intolerance, resentment, and participate in or discomfort with queer people, often focused 46) Skoliosexual: attracted to genderqueer and inwardly as one begins to question their own transsexual people and expressions (people who sexuality aren’t identified as cisgender) 35) Homosexual: a medical definition for a person who 47) Straight: a man or woman who is attracted to people is attracted to someone with the same gender (or, of the other binary gender than themselves; often literally, biological sex) they have, this is referred to as “heterosexual” considered an offensive/stigmatizing term by many 48) Third Gender: (1) a person who does not identify members of the queer community; often used with the traditional genders of “man” or “woman,” incorrectly in place of “lesbian” or “gay” but identifies with another gender; (2) the gender 36) Hypersex(ual/-ity): a sexual attraction with intensity category available in societies that recognize three bordering on insatiability or addiction; recently or more genders dismissed as a non-medical condition by the 49) Transgender: a blanket term used to describe all American Psychiatric Association when it was people who are not cisgender; occasionally used as proposed to be included in the Diagnostic and “transgendered” but the “ed” is misleading, as it Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version 5. implies something happened to the person to make 37) Intersex: a person with a set of sexual anatomy that them transgender, which is not the case doesn’t fit within the labels of female or male (e.g., 50) Transitioning: a term used to describe the process 47,XXY phenotype, uterus, and penis) of moving from one sex/gender to another, 38) Male: a person with a specific set of sexual sometimes this is done by hormone or surgical anatomy (e.g., 46,XY phenotype, penis, testis, treatments higher levels of , coarse body hair, 51) Transsexual: a person whose gender identity is the facial hair) pursuant to this label binary opposite of their biological sex, who may 39) Outing [someone]: when someone reveals another undergo medical treatments to change their person’s sexuality or gender identity to an biological sex, oftentimes to align it with their individual or group, often without the person’s gender identity, or they may live their lives as the consent or approval; not to be confused with opposite sex; often confused with “trans- “coming out” man”/”trans-woman” 40) Pansexual: a person who experiences 52) Transvestite: a person who dresses as the binary sexual, romantic, physical, and/or spiritual opposite gender expression (“cross-dresses”) for attraction for members of all gender any one of many reasons, including relaxation, fun, identities/expressions and sexual gratification; often called a “cross- 41) Queer: (1) historically, this was a derogatory slang dresser,” and often confused with “transsexual” term used to identify LGBTQ+ people; (2) a term 53) Trans-man: a person who was assigned a female that has been embraced and reclaimed by the sex at birth, but identifies as a man; often confused LGBTQ+ community as a symbol of pride, with “transsexual man” or “FTM” representing all individuals who fall out of the 54) Trans-woman: a person who was assigned a male gender and sexuality “norms” sex at birth, but identifies as a woman; often 42) Questioning: the process of exploring one’s own confused with “transsexual woman” or “MTF” sexual orientation, investigating influences that may 55) Two-Spirit: a term traditionally used by Native come from their family, religious upbringing, and American people to recognize individuals who internal motivations possess qualities or fulfill roles of both genders 43) (SGL): a phrase coined by the African American/Black queer communities used as an alternative for “gay” and “lesbian” by people who may see those as terms of the White queer community

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