the idea that there is only two genders (related to sex) that are male and female, and that everyone is either one or the other. Disputed by many academics in the medical, scientific and psychological fields who make a distinction between sex (of which the idea of there only being ‘two’ binary sexes is disputed too) and gender.

a description for somebody who describes their gender as being more feminine than masculine in terms of how they express their gender.

an identity used to describe individuals who consider themselves to be more feminine than masculine and may encompass a range of other identities (e.g. femme, submissive, transfeminine), but do not describe themselves as women.

an individual who wears the clothes of another gender/sex. Such individuals may not identify as transgender or nonbinary, they may consider themselves cisgender. They may, or may not, label themselves a transvestite. Crossdressers may also have separate personas and/or names for when they are cross-dressing; this may not take the form of drag either. People cross-dress for a range of […]

the behaviour that gives preferential treatment to cisgender people as opposed to transgender, nonbinary, people with intersex variations or other gender identified people.

the assumption that all individuals are cisgender, or that they are cisgender until shown otherwise. Related: heteronormativity

Somebody who is not transgender and/or nonbinary. An individual whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth; for example, a cisgender man is someone who presently identifies as being “male” or a “man”, and was also assigned male at birth. Cisgender individuals may also be hetero, homo, bi(+) or asexual; it is not necessarily related to their sexual identity.

Also known as binding.

An alternative to biological sex.