An individual’s preference for pronouns; e.g. their desire to be referred to as he/him, she/her, they/them, etc. To deliberately neglect to use a person’s preferred pronouns – that is, to deliberately refer to them using pronouns they do not prefer – is considered transphobic in much the same way deadnaming someone is.

A name in which a person may previously have been known. This may be particularly pertinent, but not exclusive to, transgender and nonbinary individuals who may have been born with a name different to the name they now go by. For example, a man who was assigned female at birth may have been born with […]

A subcategory of nouns that refer to a person or thing – traditionally, he/him, she/her, it/its, they/them. Traditionally, males are referred to as he/him (e.g. he hurt himself on his table), and females by she/her (e.g. she hurt herself on her table), but the discussion around preferred pronouns has meant that individuals may ask to […]

The sex assigned to an individual when born; that is, typically, male or female as it may appear on one’s birth certificate. A transgender individual is somebody who identifies their gender differently to their sex assigned at birth. By comparison, someone whose sex assigned at birth is the same as their gender (that is, their […]

An initialism for sex assigned at birth.

A trans person who is not out. That is, a trans person who is still perceived or known by others as being cisgender.

initialism for transgender/nonbinary.

initialism of transgender/non-conforming. Short hand for the various transgender and gender non-conforming identities and community.

A nonbinary and/or transgender identity in which individuals do not identify as male or female, but a third gender. Also an umbrella term for a wide-variety of gender identities. The term third gender has also been used in non-Western societies to describe individuals who fall outside of traditional gender norms, roles and expectations, and those […]