also known as the gender binary or binary sex; it is 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. Heavily disputed.

also known as the gender binary or sex binary; it is 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. Heavily disputed.

Attitudes and beliefs that seek to other transgender individuals from spaces, social institutions and discussions, and the deliberate attempt to withdraw or limit the rights of transgender people. Although often disputed by those who possess them, such attitudes and beliefs are transphobic. The term has come into public consciousness due to TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists), […]

a culturally specific term in Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lexicon to refer to transgender, nonbinary and other gender diverse individuals who have a ‘female‘ spirit and take on female roles within the community.

a culturally specific term in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lexicon to refer to transgender, nonbinary and other gender diverse individuals who have a ‘male‘ spirit and take on male roles within the community.

a catch-all, umbrella term for those who are not cisgender; that is, those who are transgender, nonbinary and/or gender non-conforming.

the wide variety of characteristics, predominantly physical, but also behavioural, which provide indicators of one’s biological sex. Endosex individuals have sex characteristics typical of either males or females, whereas intersex individuals (that is, people with intersex variations) may have any number of sex characteristics which may not be identifiable as “typical” for males and females, […]

simply put, consent is the act of giving permission, voluntarily, to the proposals or desires of another human being. A primary example of consent is the permission given between two or more individuals to engage in physically intimate behaviour with each other. Without consent, such acts are rape. Both legally, and morally, consent can be […]

a description used by individuals on the nonbinary and transgender gender spectrum to describe individuals that do not identify as female exclusively, but describes a certain alignment towards female identity. An example may be an agender person that identifies as female-aligned because they were assigned female at birth; or a nonbinary person whose identity is […]