A part of gender reassignment surgery on the ‘top’ half of the body as opposed to the bottom half. That is, surgery on the breasts, such as the removal of breast tissue (“Transgender Mastectomy“), or indeed, breast implants.

A term related to transgender individuals who go through hormone therapy, essentially starting what is known as a second puberty where hormonal changes take place within the body. In medical circles, second puberty may also be used to describe the various hormonal changes that take place without hormone therapy that take place as a natural […]

As in to transition, the steps and process taken by transgender/nonbinary individuals to realise their gender identity; such as hormone therapy, puberty blockers, top surgery and/or bottom surgery to alleviate gender dysphoria; the coming out to family and friends; legal steps such as name changes and official gender recognition; use of pronouns. The transitioning process […]

The steps a trans person may take to live, and/or been seen as, the gender with which they identify. This may involve a multitude of things; such as medical intervention (such as top surgery and/or bottom surgery, hormone treatment), changing one’s name, changing one’s presentation, the usage of pronouns, and coming out; the journey one […]

an individual who possesses transphobia; an adjective that describes attitudes and behaviours that possess transphobia; negative, exclusionary, or hostile attitudes or beliefs towards transgender people.

The range of negative attitudes, intolerance and resentment of transgender individuals. Transphobia is sadly not restricted to heterosexual people, which has unfortunately been highlighted by the rise in anti-trans activists who are also lesbian, gay, bisexual or asexual; such examples may be TERFs or gender-critical feminists. Somebody who possesses transphobia would be described as transphobic.

a term originating in Indigenous North American communities in 1990, to describe people who fulfill a traditional third-gender or gender variant role in traditional societies; the “two-spirit” relates to individuals who possess the traditional masculine and feminine qualities. It should be noted, however, that not all two-spirit individuals associate themselves with the LGBTQIA+ community.

a set of gender neutral pronouns, although far less common than they/them. Nonbinary individuals may opt for the ze/zir pronouns instead of he/him or she/her. Ze sometimes appears as zie. Both are pronounced as “zee”. Zir is pronounced like “sir” but with a “z”. It is related to sie/hir, and the pronouns may be used […]

initialism for gender non-conforming.