Posts in category: Grow your lexicon

Two-spirit (also two spirit, 2S or, occasionally, two spirited) is a modern, pan-Indian, umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to des ...

Usually represents queer or questioning. Queer is considered an umbrella term for anyone who is non-cisgender or heterosexual. Queer may be used by p ...

Pangender is a gender identity that involves experiencing many different gender identities simultaneously or one at a time with differing degrees. A ...

Someone who occasionally experiences sexual attraction but usually does not; it covers a kind of gray space between asexuality and Allosexuality (Sex ...

People whose gender identity does not fit within the male/female binary.

One who expresses gender outside traditional norms associated with masculinity or femininity. Not all gender-nonconforming people are transgender, an ...

A term used by people whose identity shifts or fluctuates. Sometimes these individuals may identify or express themselves as more masculine on some d ...

Clinically significant distress caused when a person’s assigned birth gender is not the same as the one with which they identify. This is Gender Dysp ...

Demi Sexual is used to describe someone who feels sexual attraction only to people with whom they have an emotional bond often considered to be on th ...

Someone whose gender identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth.

This word “bisexual” was first used by the German psychologist Richard Von Krafft-Ebing while referring to the gender of persons whom he believed hav ...

Before its use in the LGBQT community, bigender was an early 20th-century biological term for plants that possess both male and female reproductive p ...

The sex that is assigned to an infant at birth based on the child’s visible sex organs, including genitalia and other physical characteristics. Often ...

The adjective, Androgynous, dates from the early 17th century and is derived from the older French and English term androgyne. Androgyny is the posse ...

A person who does not identify as LGBTQ but stands with and advocates for LGBTQ people and their rights.

Agender is a term which can be literally translated as without gender. It can be seen either as a nonbinary gender identity or as a statement of not ...