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* '''en homme'''. In cross-dressing communities, this means dressed as a man.
* '''en homme'''. In cross-dressing communities, this means dressed as a man.
* '''eonism'''. Term for an [[AMAB]] person dressing as a woman. Coined by sexologist Havelock Ellis, derived from the name of a historical figure, [[wikipedia:Chevalier d'Éon|Chevalier d'Éon]].<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eonism [https://web.archive.org/web/20230518101013/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eonism Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
* '''eonism'''. Term for an [[AMAB]] person dressing as a woman. Coined by sexologist Havelock Ellis, derived from the name of a historical figure, [[wikipedia:Chevalier d'Éon|Chevalier d'Éon]].<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eonism [https://web.archive.org/web/20230518101013/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eonism Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
* '''[[eunuch]]'''. A person who was assigned male at birth and had some or all of their private parts removed. Some transgender people think of themselves as eunuchs. Some think of eunuch as a nonbinary gender identity.<ref>"Eunuch." ''Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki." [https://susans.org/wiki/Eunuch]</ref>
* '''[[eunuch]]'''. A person who was assigned male at birth and had some or all of their private parts removed. Some transgender people think of themselves as eunuchs. Some think of eunuch as a nonbinary gender identity.<ref>"Eunuch." ''Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki." [https://web.archive.org/web/20221005020146/https://www.susans.org/wiki/Eunuch]</ref>
* '''exorsexism'''. A term for [[discrimination against nonbinary people]], whether intentional or not.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://exorsexistbullshit.tumblr.com/post/146314687718/whats-exorsexism-mean-sorry-i-keep-seeing-it|title=What's exorsexism mean? Sorry, I keep seeing it and I don't know|date=22 June 2016|work=Exorsexist Bullshit (blog)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523082859/https://exorsexistbullshit.tumblr.com/post/146314687718/whats-exorsexism-mean-sorry-i-keep-seeing-it|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Coined in 2016 by tumblr user vergess.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112160958/http://vergess.tumblr.com/post/143919554200/xor-gender-chart |title=XOR Gender Chart| date=5 May 2016 |archive-date=12 January 2019|url=http://vergess.tumblr.com/post/143919554200/xor-gender-chart}}</ref> Also called enbyphobia.<ref name="Archangel">{{Cite web |title=Gender Fluidity 101 |author=Archangel{{!}}December |work=The Everyday |date=17 January 2021 |access-date=6 March 2021 |url=https://theeverydaymagazine.co.uk/opinion/gender-fluidity-101 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719161724/https://theeverydaymagazine.co.uk/opinion/gender-fluidity-101 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>
* '''exorsexism'''. A term for [[discrimination against nonbinary people]], whether intentional or not.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://exorsexistbullshit.tumblr.com/post/146314687718/whats-exorsexism-mean-sorry-i-keep-seeing-it|title=What's exorsexism mean? Sorry, I keep seeing it and I don't know|date=22 June 2016|work=Exorsexist Bullshit (blog)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523082859/https://exorsexistbullshit.tumblr.com/post/146314687718/whats-exorsexism-mean-sorry-i-keep-seeing-it|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> Coined in 2016 by tumblr user vergess.<ref>{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112160958/http://vergess.tumblr.com/post/143919554200/xor-gender-chart |title=XOR Gender Chart| date=5 May 2016 |archive-date=12 January 2019|url=http://vergess.tumblr.com/post/143919554200/xor-gender-chart}}</ref> Also called enbyphobia.<ref name="Archangel">{{Cite web |title=Gender Fluidity 101 |author=Archangel{{!}}December |work=The Everyday |date=17 January 2021 |access-date=6 March 2021 |url=https://theeverydaymagazine.co.uk/opinion/gender-fluidity-101 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719161724/https://theeverydaymagazine.co.uk/opinion/gender-fluidity-101 |archive-date=19 July 2023 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>


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* '''[[genderism]]'''. "The system of belief that there are only two genders (men and women) and that gender is inherently tied to one’s sex assigned at birth. It holds cisgender people as superior to transgender people, and punishes or excludes those who don't conform to society’s expectations of gender."<ref name="Berkeley2013" /> See [[cissexism]] and [[nonbinary erasure]]. ''Note:'' when used by [[Feminism#Transgender-exclusionary feminists|TERFs]], "genderist" is a disparaging term for a person who "believes in gender ideology" (i.e. respects gender as self-identified, not based on biology).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=433662447121753&id=368260636995268&__tn__=H-R|date=21 July 2018|author=trans autistica|title=there really needs to be more information about terf tactics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719162317/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D433662447121753%26id%3D368260636995268%26__tn__%3DH-R|archive-date=19 July 2023|access-date=5 July 2020|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
* '''[[genderism]]'''. "The system of belief that there are only two genders (men and women) and that gender is inherently tied to one’s sex assigned at birth. It holds cisgender people as superior to transgender people, and punishes or excludes those who don't conform to society’s expectations of gender."<ref name="Berkeley2013" /> See [[cissexism]] and [[nonbinary erasure]]. ''Note:'' when used by [[Feminism#Transgender-exclusionary feminists|TERFs]], "genderist" is a disparaging term for a person who "believes in gender ideology" (i.e. respects gender as self-identified, not based on biology).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=433662447121753&id=368260636995268&__tn__=H-R|date=21 July 2018|author=trans autistica|title=there really needs to be more information about terf tactics|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719162317/https://www.facebook.com/login/?next=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fpermalink.php%3Fstory_fbid%3D433662447121753%26id%3D368260636995268%26__tn__%3DH-R|archive-date=19 July 2023|access-date=5 July 2020|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref>
* '''[[Gender nonconformity|gender non-conformity]] (GNC)'''. Regardless of gender identity or whether one is cisgender or transgender, resistance to conforming to a female or male gender expression.
* '''[[Gender nonconformity|gender non-conformity]] (GNC)'''. Regardless of gender identity or whether one is cisgender or transgender, resistance to conforming to a female or male gender expression.
* '''genderpunk'''. Another term for [[genderfuck]].<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderpunk [https://web.archive.org/web/20221128000353/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderpunk Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
* '''genderpunk'''. Another term for [[genderfuck]].<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderpunk. [https://web.archive.org/web/20221128000353/https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/genderpunk Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BALqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT188&dq=genderpunk&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0#v=onepage&q=genderpunk&f=false |quote=I identify as a genderpunk nonbinary disabled elder transgender woman veteran rabbi. Genderpunk is synonymous with genderfuck; its usage goes back to the 1960s and 1970s. |title=Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century|editor-last=Brettschneider|editor-first=Marla |date=2024 |publisher=State University of New York Press}}</ref>
* '''gender presentation'''. All the signs of a person's gender that other people can see.<ref>"Gender presentation." ''Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki.'' [https://susans.org/wiki/Gender_presentation] [https://web.archive.org/web/20201030225551/https://susans.org/wiki/Gender_presentation Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
* '''gender presentation'''. All the signs of a person's gender that other people can see.<ref>"Gender presentation." ''Susan's Place Transgender Resource Wiki.'' [https://susans.org/wiki/Gender_presentation] [https://web.archive.org/web/20201030225551/https://susans.org/wiki/Gender_presentation Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>
[[File:Genderqueer.png|thumb|[[Genderqueer flag]] by Marilyn Roxie in 2011. Lavender, as a mix of pink and blue, is for [[androgyne|androgynes]] and [[MOGII]]. White is for [[agender]]. Dark chartreuse green (the inverse of lavender) is for [[gender]] outside the [[gender binary]].<ref>[http://genderqueerid.com/about-flag http://genderqueerid.com/about-flag] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230625010700/https://genderqueerid.com/about-flag Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>]]
[[File:Genderqueer.png|thumb|[[Genderqueer flag]] by Marilyn Roxie in 2011. Lavender, as a mix of pink and blue, is for [[androgyne|androgynes]] and [[MOGII]]. White is for [[agender]]. Dark chartreuse green (the inverse of lavender) is for [[gender]] outside the [[gender binary]].<ref>[http://genderqueerid.com/about-flag http://genderqueerid.com/about-flag] [https://web.archive.org/web/20230625010700/https://genderqueerid.com/about-flag Archived] on 17 July 2023</ref>]]
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*'''[[transfeminine]]'''. A transgender person who transitions in a feminine direction, but who doesn't necessarily identify as female. They may have a nonbinary gender identity.
*'''[[transfeminine]]'''. A transgender person who transitions in a feminine direction, but who doesn't necessarily identify as female. They may have a nonbinary gender identity.
*'''trans-feminism''', or '''transfeminism'''. The creation of this word in the late 1990s is credited to Diana Courvant and Emi Koyama.<ref>Alissa Quart, ''Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels.'' p. 36.</ref> A [[feminism|feminist]] movement that takes into account transgender experience and rights.
*'''trans-feminism''', or '''transfeminism'''. The creation of this word in the late 1990s is credited to Diana Courvant and Emi Koyama.<ref>Alissa Quart, ''Republic of Outsiders: The Power of Amateurs, Dreamers and Rebels.'' p. 36.</ref> A [[feminism|feminist]] movement that takes into account transgender experience and rights.
[[File:Trans Pride Flag.png|thumb|[[Transgender]] flag designed by trans woman Monica Helms in 1999. Stripes for male (blue), female (pink), and [[other gender|other]] or [[transition|transitioning]] (white).]]
[[File:Transgender.png|thumb|[[Transgender]] flag designed by trans woman Monica Helms in 1999. Stripes for male (blue), female (pink), and [[other gender|other]] or [[transition|transitioning]] (white).]]
*'''[[transgender]]'''. An umbrella term for those with gender identities that don't match the genders they were assigned at birth.
*'''[[transgender]]'''. An umbrella term for those with gender identities that don't match the genders they were assigned at birth.
*'''[[transition]]'''. The process that individuals typically experiencing gender dysphoria go through to reach their desired social gender role, and/or physicality. There is no one definition of transition, as the term is based on the unique requirements of each individual.
*'''[[transition]]'''. The process that individuals typically experiencing gender dysphoria go through to reach their desired social gender role, and/or physicality. There is no one definition of transition, as the term is based on the unique requirements of each individual.
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==External links==
==External links==


* [https://susans.org/wiki/Terms_and_definitions Susan's Place Transgender Resources Wiki: Terms and definitions]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20201030221306/https://susans.org/wiki/Terms_and_definitions Susan's Place Transgender Resources Wiki: Terms and definitions]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120229202924/http:/aetherlumina.com/gnp/listing.html Gender Neutral Pronoun FAQ.]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120229202924/http:/aetherlumina.com/gnp/listing.html Gender Neutral Pronoun FAQ.]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210428101535/https://jmcottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels/ J.M. Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels."]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20210428101535/https://jmcottle.com/hallelujah-its-raining-labels/ J.M. Cottle, "Hallelujah, it's raining labels."]