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What is Transgender?
a person whose sense of personal identity and gender does not correspond with their birth sex.
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What is FTM?
is an acronym to describe a trans man
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What is MTF?
is an acronym to describe a trans woman
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What is Binary?
having only two parts composed with it, such as female and make
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What is GAAB?
the acronym to describe what your birth sex is.
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What is Sex?
which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions.
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What is T?
a short form for the hormone testosterone.
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What is E?
the short form of the hormone estrogen
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What is They?
a gender neutral pronoun
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What is a Dead Name?
a name you no longer go by.
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What is Pronouns?
a word used to replace a person in a sentence.
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What is a Hysto?
slang for a surgical operation to remove all or part of the uterus.
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What is Breast Forms?
silicone or plastic breasts that are used to create the illusion of breasts
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What is Gender Non Conforming?
a person whose behavior or appearance does not conform to prevailing cultural and social expectations about what is appropriate to their gender.
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What is Gender Dysphoria?
psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one's sex assigned at birth and one's gender identity.
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What is Cisgender?
person whose sense of personal identity and gender corresponds with their birth sex.
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What is Binding?
to have something that is pressed against the chest to flatten it
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What is a Gaff?
a piece of fabric, usually augmented by an elastic such as a rubber band, that is designed to hide the male genital bulge.
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What is an Enby?
a slang term to describe a non-binary person
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What is a Transsexual?
a term that was used instead transgender from 1949-1971. it is now seen as derogatory.
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What is Gender?
when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of identities that do not correspond to established ideas of male and female.
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What is Packing?
to have a phallic shaped object in the underwear to create an illusion of a penis
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What is TERF?
a feminist who excludes the rights of transgender women from their advocacy of women's rights.
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What is a Neopronoun?
pronouns that use words, emojis or symbols. they are seen as mockery of the trans and non-binary community. they can be used by trans people but they are not respected as they are invalid in a legal stance.
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What is Martha P Johnson?
the most well known transgender activist in the world. she threw the first brick at stone wall.
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