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.

a medical term used to refer to the chromosomal, hormonal and/or anatomical characteristics used to classify and designate a sex of an individual – typically male or female.

the act of flattening one’s breasts using a binder. The act of breast-binding is typically done by trans men, as well as androgynous or nonbinary people (as well as Drag Kings) in order to make the breasts less prominent and/or in order to look less feminine. This may be in order to combat dysphoria.