Hollstein

Blend of Hollis + Karnstein, presumably as a play on Holstein.

Hollstein shippers didn't really understand the fact that some people didn't ship the same thing as them, and I myself received a lot of anonymous hate for not shipping them.

2016, Aimee, quoted in Shannon Morrison, "Navigating and Exploring LGBT Identity in Fandom", paper submitted to the College of Charleston

Watching two out actors portray dream duo "Hollstein" provides an extra frisson and makes Natasha and Elise's passion for positive queer representation all the more powerful.

2017 December, Roxy Bourdillon, “The Little Web Series That Did”, in Diva, page 32:

As the series' main characters, Hollstein are immensely popular and the relationship has provided the emotional rollercoaster ride for characters and viewers that might be expected from such a relationship in a complex serial narrative.

2019, Lorna Jowett, “'Most of You Are Wondering Who the Heck I Am': Carmilla (2014-2016, online) as Digital Reimagining of Le Fanu's 'Carmilla'”, in Lorna Piatti-Farnell, editor, Gothic Afterlives: Reincarnations of Horror in Film and Popular Media, page 84:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Laura Hollis and Carmilla Karnstein from the web series Carmilla.


Klance

In one extreme case, a fan threatened to leak spoilers unless Klance (the pairing of Keith and Lance) was made canon.

2018 July, Shamus Kelley, “#LanceIsBi”, in Den of Geek, page 23:

Klance have continued to rank at the top of ship and show rankings throughout 2018. Despite only having aired for little over two years, there are over 22,000 Klance fics on AO3.

2018, Diana Koehm, "Revision as Resistance: Fanfiction as an Empowering Community for Female and Queer Fans", thesis submitted to the University of Connecticut, page 37

This condition was that "Klance," the ship was^([sic]) between the characters Lance and Keith be made canon.

2020 January 31, Bridget Cagle, “Fandom frenzy: Fan 'ships' should have boundaries”, in The Journal, Southport High School, Indianapolis, page 14:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Keith and Lance from the animated series Voltron: Legendary Defender.


McShep

I think she is the listmom for the McShep list.

2004 December 4, Lisa, “Re: New Photos from The Siege”, in alt.tv.stargate-atlantis (Usenet):

Feel free to wax lyrical about McShep to me.

2005 May 30, Ankh, “Re: Dear Magda”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1 (Usenet):

[…] she likens the McShep pairing as conceived of by the community to a drug.

2009, Marla Bomersbach, "Actions That Embody Virtual Space", thesis submitted the University of Pittsburgh, page 48

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Rodney McKay and John Sheppard from the television series Stargate Atlantis.


cissupremacy

From cis- + supremacy, by analogy with white supremacy.

To fight this systemic oppression — including transphobia, cis-centrism, cis-supremacy and trans-misogyny — it is essential we support the self-determination of all people oppressed by coercive, non-consensual gender assignments.

2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, page 129:

Cisgender directors and writers cannot be the judge of what an authentic trans portrayal looks like because of their socialization in cissupremacy.

2015, Aryeh Conrad, "Towards a Truer Representation: Transphobic Casting Politics and the Cis-Gaze in Film", paper submitted to the University of Puget Sound, page 10

In that context where cissexism and cissupremacy are the oppressions in question, a cisgender woman would not count as a marginalized person.

2016, Nora Berenstain, “Epistemic Exploitation”, in Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, volume 3, number 22, page 570:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Ideology that regards cis people as superior to other people (including trans people, nonbinary people, and genderfluid people), or diminishes the rights or interests of those who are not cis.

Behavior (individual or systemic) in which cis people are privileged over other people in society (trans people, nonbinary people, genderfluid people).


cissupremacist

en-adj

cissupremacist (comparative more cissupremacist, superlative most cissupremacist)

more cissupremacist (comparative)
most cissupremacist (superlative)

The blog critic gudbuy t'jane is even more scathing in her condemnation of the video in arguing that the fact that Lady Gaga 'uses trans women and drag queens to exoticize her videos doesn't defer from the cissupremacist stance that women=vagina, and trans women are therefore not real women . . . This is transmisogyny.'

2011, Diane Railton, Paul Watson, Music Video and the Politics of Representation, page 146:

The concept originated during the cis-supremacist witch hunts which sought to systematically remove trans women from feminist organizations during the 1970s.

2012, “OWS Must Resist Cis-Supremacy and Trans-Misogyny”, in Amy Schrager Lang, Daniel Lang/Levitsky, editors, Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement, unnumbered page:

It's already hard as is for LGBTQIA+ people to navigate the heteronormative and cis-supremacist world we live in.

2015 March/April, King Chan, A Bi* Guy's Way of Queering up Bi* for our Queer World, in getoutlb, page 5

(LGBTQ, neologism) Exhibiting or relating to cissupremacy.


binormative

By doing so, it is pushing bisexuals to comply with bi assimilationist ideology and binormative behavior. For example, in a thread on an American bi mailing list concerning the campaign's press release, I noted that I, as a bi activist, did not feel […]

2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 309:

Walker represents a character who calls into question the typical modes of identifying human beings: the distinctions between individuals and groups, unity of self and fragmentation of the self, univocality and polyvocality, […] consistency and relativity, White/Black and gay/straight. Most important for our extended discussion of binormative representations, Walker's novel serves as an example of how a virtual oversignification of a single body (one character) effects a short circuit in the machinery of monosexual epistemologies[…]

2013, Dawn Atkins, Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century, Routledge, →ISBN, page 64:

(LGBTQ) Of, pertaining to or exhibiting binormativity.


binormativity

That this, achieving 'identity' through labelling and definition […] risks simply reserving existing hierarchies and re-inscribing the very power relations it seeks to undermine (Bower, 1999). Not surprisingly, 'heteronormativity' (Wilton, 1996) may be transposed into another version of normativity, in this case 'binormativity'. The third difficulty arises because accessing alternative discourses depends on changes in real conditions ...

2007, Victoria Clarke, Elizabeth Peel, Out in Psychology: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Queer Perspectives, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 236:

There exists a similar phenomenon of binormativity where by constructing a deviant bisexual other, the bisexual community is capable of upholding the dominant cultural code as well as its lesbian interpretation.

2010, K Caldwell, We exist: Intersectional in/visibility in bisexuality & disability:

Not only heteronormativity, but also homo/binormativity are beginning to be feared, as they are perceived as limiting with respect to the 'rainbow' of sexual differences which exalts unstable and changeable indeterminateness […]

2012, Laura Palazzani, Gender in Philosophy and Law, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 92:

Binormativity refers to the normalisation of a certain standard of bisexuality against which all other forms of bisexuality are measured.

2015, V Del Castillo, Regulating Bisexuality: Binormativity and Assimilation to the Homonormative Order in American Scripted Television Series:

If we do manage to escape the heteronormative crab bucket, we're in a precarious place — scuttling around on the beach on our own — so it's highly tempting to join another crab bucket, with its own sets of rules and ideologies. Hence homonormativity, and, indeed, binormativity, polynormavity, kinknormativity ... There's a certain irony in people looking over at the mainstream bucket, laughing at the crabs being pulled back in, not realizing that they're doing exactly the same thing.

2016, Meg-John Barker, Queer: A Graphic History, Icon Books, →ISBN:

(LGBTQ) The adoption of limiting (especially heterosexist-like) values, beliefs and norms into the bisexual community.


Larry Stylinson

Blend of Louis Tomlinson + Harry Styles.

In the latter, I analyze the distinctions between the media’s response to Larry Stylinson shippers and fan responses, drawing on Matt Hills’s notion of inter-fandom antagonism.

2016, Bethan Jones, “'I Will Throw You off Your Ship and You Will Drown and Die': Death Threats, Intra-Fandom Hate, and the Performance of Fangirling”, in Lucy Bennett, Paul Booth, editors, Seeing Fans: Representations of Fandom in Media and Popular Culture, page 54:

The sheer volume of Larry Stylinson erotica available online is astonishing.

2018, Kate Leaver, The Friendship Cure: Reconnecting in the Modern World, unnumbered page:

Beyond fanart and fanfiction, the Larry Stylinson "division" of the fandom became a safe space for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bissexual, transgender, and queer) fans […]

2018, Paola Brembilla, “Transmedia Music: The Values of Music as a Transmedia Asset”, in Matthew Freeman, Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, editors, The Routledge Companion to Transmedia Studies, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The real-person fiction ship of Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles of the band One Direction.


Choni

Sorry everyone, Bughead and Varchie are out; Choni is the only "Riverdale" pairing that matters.

2018, Alison Epstein, "'Riverdale' Chapter 29: The one where everyone runs for office", The Tufts Daily (Tufts University), 26 March 2018, page 6

There tends to be a lot of promotional material for Riverdale that teases "Choni" (Cheryl and Toni) content, and more often than not it will end up being a fairly brief encounter between them onscreen.

2019, Danielle Windecker, "Chilling Adventures & Dark Teen Dramas", Raspberry, Winter 2019, page 13

Even the ‘Choni’ scene, mainly contains of elements that are commonly portrayed in mainstream heterosexual sex scenes. Kissing, props and sexy undressing.

2019, Rayann Condy & Sophie Ivan, "Getting to Great: How young women in Singapore experience depictions of sex in youth television", thesis submitted to Malmö University, page 48

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Cheryl Blossom and Toni Topaz from the television series Riverdale.


WayHaught

Blend of Waverly + Haught, as a deliberate homophone of way hot.

Many fans of the show have found the courage to come out to their friends and family because of WayHaught.

2016, Nahomy Ortiz & Carolyn Rodriguez, "A Sense Of Courage", Mimp, Winter 2016, page 60

“Wynonna Earp’s” profile only grew once L.G.B.T. fans came on board in a big way. Twitter trending happened regularly during Season 2 and WayHaught fan art, fan fiction and T-shirts proliferated.

2018 July 6, Maureen Ryan, “A Cult Show’s Recipe for Success: Whiskey, Twitter and Complex Women”, in The New York Times:

But which is Katherine Barrell's favorite WayHaught moment of all time?

2018 July 11, “Wynonna Earp's Katherine Barrell Picks Her Favorite WayHaught Moments”, in The Columbus Dispatch:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Waverly Earp and Nicole Haught from the television series Wynonna Earp.


Jikook

For example, there are portmanteaus of each and every BTS member combination, with fans hoping that JiKook (Jimin and Jungkook) or V-Hope (V and J-Hope) will become a thing.

2018 September 12, Jessica Lindsay, “What does shipping mean when people aren’t talking about ships?”, in Metro, UK:

"JiKook," the pairing of Korean boy band BTS members Jeon Jeong-guk and Park Ji-min, is the fourth most popular ship despite the fact that neither pairing is together in real life.

2019, Palmer Haasch, "Community, Soul-Searching and Pleasure: The Significance of Real Person Fanfiction in BTS Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of Minnesota, page 13

(By far the most popular BTS ship is Jikook, which pairs Park Jimin and Jeon Jungkook together.)

2019 December 26, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, Michelle Jaworski, “The 10 most influential fandoms of the 2010s”, in The Daily Dot:

(fandom slang) The real-person fiction ship of Park Ji-min and Jeon Jung-kook of the K-pop boy band BTS.


aspec

For example, the aspec community developed words to define non-sexually and non-romantically driven relationships.

2017, Theresa Kenney, "Asexual Assemblages: Thinking Asexually About Sexual (Digital) Citizenship", paper submitted to McMaster University, page 33

Just like being disabled, it’s hard to explain being aspec to someone who’s never lived like I do.

2018, Sapphire Crimson Claw, “Existing And Defying Stereotypes As An A-Spec Disabled Person”, in The Asexual, volume 2, number 2, page 26:

Most of my friends know about my queerness, both being bi and being aspec, and also that I'm non-binary.

2020, K. B. Rainwater, quoted in "Have You Come Out To Your Friends About Your Orientations? Explain.", AVENues Newsletter, Spring 2020, page 15


gray asexual

Formed as an elaboration of gray-A shortly after that term's coining in 2006, more details at gray-A § Etymology.

They listened to me and didn't talk about my gender and sexuality issues when I didn't bring it up. They also never said anything rude or judged me for the alternative or feminine clothes I started to wear. (16, agender/man, grey-asexual/sensual, grey-aromantic, demisexual/sensual, demiromantic, sapiosexual/sensual, sapioromantic, lithsexual/sensual, lithromantic, quoiromantic.)

2017 February, Paul Byron, Sophia Rasmussen, Dani Wright Toussaint, Roanna Lobo, Kerry Robinson, Brett Paradise, ‘You learn from each other’: LGBTIQ Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the RAD Australia Online Director, Sydney: Western Sydney University Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, →DOI, →ISBN, page 31:


Ziam

Team Ziam and Team Larry all the way!

2013 August, Marynyriene Silvestre, “Why I Love One Direction”, in Stache, page 25:

it feels like the one direction fandom is split in smaller fandoms like the larry fandom, the elounor fandom, the ziam fandom, etcetera

2014, "paxxxxxxxxxx", quoted in Helena Löfgren, "'One Direction is not a phase like any other fandom I've been in, they're like my life' –en analys av fandom som källa till helighet", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 25

The One Direction fandom split into supporters of two primary relationships (and a whole lot of sub-relationships), "Larry Stylinson" and "Ziam" (Zayn and Liam).

2017, Millicent Lovelock, "You & I: One Direction, Fans and the Co-Construction of Identity", thesis submitted to the University of Otago, page 62

(fandom slang) The real-person fiction ship of Zayn Malik and Liam Payne of the band One Direction.


Fuffy

note(s): For FC, Piper, Elaine, B_A and everyone who asked for more Fuffy. :)

2002 November 27, cheebs!, “FIC: Returning - F/B, PG, 1/1”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):

I personally wish Joss will give us a Fuffy ending to the series...Buffy realizing it's Faith she needs to be with.

2003 January 5, Alberich, “Re: Faith may rat out Buffy”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

You guys need to read more (fem)slash. In most of the Wuffy and Fuffy fics I've read recently, Spike is either absent, or plain old pre-chip Evil!Spike.

2005 July 16, Aaron Davies, “Re: SEASON 4 FIC CHALLENGE: Looking for a good character development fic!”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Faith and Buffy Summers from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

With regard to favorite scenes, I have to say I liked the scene where Riley and Fuffy (is that what you guys call Faith-in-Buffy's-body?) slept together.

2000 April 1, mc...@hotmail.com, “Re: sorry, rose, one last Riley thread”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

Tara displayed some remarkable perceptiveness in "Who are You" realizing that Fuffy wasn't Buffy.

2000 May 24, Molly Moloney, “Re: Restless Comments”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

The only chemistry I ever noticed between Spike and Buffy was when she was Fuffy.

2003 April 16, DarkMagic, “Re: First thought on "Dirty Girls"”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):

(Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom slang) Faith while inhabiting Buffy Summers' body during their bodyswap.


M/K

Initialism from the names Mulder and Krycek.

Last March, I posted my first ever fanfic, an M/K fic to X Slash, and it got lots of loving feedback. Lots and lots of feedback.

1998 December 3, Woodinat, “Re: Feedback Experiences in general”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I am a mostly M/K fan, but I'll read just about anything that is slashy and well-written...

1998 December 24, Sosoprano, “Slash list question”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

Anyone care to pass their latest M/K slash through the English/Swedish translator, and then back again?

1999 July 8, Kipler, “Wacky Summer Translation Machine Fun (Was: Re: Fanfic in Spanish?)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Fox Mulder and Alex Krycek from the television series The X-Files.


C/P

Initialism from the names Chakotay and Paris.

I have had many people ask for a C/P story.

2001 October 16, Christine Porter, “REP: Fic: Just a Pinch of Spice {Voy} C/P”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

Many perfectly good C/P fics suddenly run into these cliches once the two are together and it's completely ruined for me!

2003 June 16, nikita79x, “Re: Cliches (was: K/S cliches)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

I actually have a longer C/P story that I wrote the first part of - must be 3 or 4 years ago (or longer) and just never finished it.

2008 January 2, Cait N., “Re: NEW VOY: Three Reasons 1/1 (C/T, m/m, Figure Eight Challenge) [PG]”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Chakotay and Tom Paris from the television series Star Trek: Voyager.


Bubbline

"The fanfiction actually began to seep into the show. The 'Bubbline' relationship between Marceline and Princess Bubblegum was never intended, but because it was a fan favourite, they're focusing on it a little bit. […]

2015, Jessica DiCicco, quoted in Kyle Butcher, "Supa DiCicco", Blank Gold Coast, April 2015, page 46

I don't think there was a singular emotion to describe the moment Bubbline became canon.

2018, Stephanie Chang, "When 'Bubbline' Became Canon", Her Culture, October/November 2018, page 69

Still, intrigued by Bubbline, I'd occasionally check in on the fandom to see what was up with their relationship.

2018, Jordan Currie, "Canon, at last!", New Wave Magazine (Ryerson University), Fall 2018, page 10

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Princess Bubblegum and Marceline of the animated television series Adventure Time.


Spirk

Note: he doesn't know about Spirk, as far as I know.

2003 February 22, ToolPackinMama, “Re: K/S is a universal constant”, in alt.tv.star-trek.tos (Usenet):

It is most commonly noted that the first famous pairing of Kirk/Spock, or Spirk, falls under the category of buddyslash.

2013, Janidean Bruner, "I 'like' slash: the demographics of Facebook slash communities", thesis submitted to the University of Louisville, page 10

Even more so, the other main reason for so much consistency in economies is the long tradition of "proper" fanfiction writing and engagement, handed down from the "Spirk" zine-writers of the 80s and 90s, to the AOL email lists and forums of early X-Files fans in the mid to late 90s, to the multi-page, interactive, and searchable archives of fanfiction sites today.

2016, Brittany Kelley, "To My Betas, Endless Chocolate Frogs!: Exploring the Intersections of Emotion, the Body, and Literacy in Online Fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Louisville, page 146

(fandom slang, rare) The ship of characters Spock and James Kirk of the Star Trek franchise.


boyslash

I prefer the Scullyslash, boyslash leaves me kind of cold.

1998 April 21, jenroses, “Re: X-Files Fan Questionnaire”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

I have come across only one scholarly paper about treksmut on the web, about a Borg boyslash zine (rather esoteric no?) […]

2000 January 6, ms. julie levin russo, “Re: Writers on Writing”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet):

Yes, it's dark, angsty boyslash, and yes, I'm as surprised as you are since this is hardly my usual XF vibe, but hey, man, give slash a chance .

2001 March 26, Caz, “xfc: NEW: Zaghruda (1/1) by CazQ (NC-17, V, A, M/K)”, in alt.tv.x-files.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) Slash fiction that focuses on romantic and/or sexual relationships between male characters.


(LGBTQ, chiefly Canada) Alternative form of LGBTQ2


LGBTQI2 (comparative more LGBTQI2, superlative most LGBTQI2)

more LGBTQI2 (comparative)
most LGBTQI2 (superlative)

(LGBTQ, chiefly Canada) Abbreviation of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (or: transsexual), questioning (or: queer), intersex, two-spirited.


trans-identified female

trans-identified female (not comparable)


trans-identified female

en-noun

trans-identified female (plural trans-identified females)

(derogatory, offensive, dysphemistic) A trans man.


bicon

Oh yes, Evelyn Hugo is a bisexual icon (a bicon, if you will), who spends most of her time with Monique not focusing on the seven husbands that the book is named for but rather her true "great love," Celia St. James.

2019 March 15, Emma Lichtenstein, “'Evelyn Hugo' is your next must read”, in The Brandeis Hoot (Brandeis University), page 14:

[Gaby] Dunn, a self-professed “bicon,” or bisexual icon, also wanted to use this novel as an opportunity to amplify queer representation, which she said popular media often leaves out of the narrative.

2019 October 2, Dana Gerber, “Former journalistic endeavors inspire alum's graphic novel”, in The Berkeley Beacon (Emerson College), page 6:

Harry has been somewhat of a bicon (bisexual icon, duh) thanks to his incessant waving of Pride flags on stage, and outright refusal to define his sexuality. Which is obviously, very much his prerogative.

2019 November 5, “Why fans think Harry Styles' new album is proof of his bisexuality”, in Cosmopolitan:

(informal) An iconic bisexual celebrity or fictional character, or a celebrity or fictional character (including if not bisexual) who is much admired by (and iconic to) bisexual people.


Pride Day

(US) June 28, declared for LGBT pride, as it is the anniversary of the Stonewall riots of 1969.


comphet

Abbreviation of compulsory heterosexuality.

abbrev

Because heterosexuality is, by and large, presented as the only acceptable sexuality to have, comp het assumes that one might choose heterosexuality by default, even if one is not strictly hetero, in order to escape such punishment.

2019 June 3, Anna Pulley, “Ask Anna: Am I really attracted to men, or just responding to heteronormativity?”, in Chicago Tribune:

Compulsory heterosexuality
compulsory heterosexuality#English


Pride Month

(US) The month of June, declared for LGBT pride in commemoration of the Stonewall riots of June 1969.


compulsory heterosexuality

In none of these books, which concern themselves with mothering, sex roles, relationships, and societal prescriptions for women, is compulsory heterosexuality ever examined as an institution powerfully affecting all these; or the idea of "preference" or "innate orientation" even indirectly questioned.

1980 Summer, Adrienne Rich, “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence”, in Signs, volume 5, number 4, →DOI, page 633:

How could I have missed this milestone of compulsory heterosexuality? Who would teach my daughter whatever girls with fathers learned on these dates and dances, like how to wait for doors to be opened or hold a fork like an unmistakable catch?

2019 April 26, Asha French, “A ‘Daddy-Daughter Date,’ Queer Single Mom-Style”, in The New York Times:

(LGBTQ, feminism) The idea that heterosexuality is often assumed and forced upon individuals regardless of their own sexual orientation by a patriarchal and heteronormative society.


tranarchist

What follows is a distillation of hours of conversation with two of these women, Justine and Zoë, founding members of the "tranarchist" affinity group that has helped jump-start a movement that has swept the nation and the world.

2011 November 9, Gina Quattrochi, “When the System Itself is the Problem”, in Gay City News, page 10:

As Justine Tunney (27), self-described "tranarchist" and founder of the main OWS website (occupywallst.org) phrased it, "I believe that the hetero-normative, cis-normative, patriarchal, state-capitalist establishment is evil and must be destroyed."

2013, Mark Bray, Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street, unnumbered page:

Some noted with bemused incuriosity that Tunney, an avowed anticapitalist “tranarchist” (transgender anarchist), was at one time a prominent and divisive fixture of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

2018, Corey Pein, Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley, unnumbered page:

(neologism) A transgender person who espouses anarchist views.


brotherboy

Senator McCarthy's plea to 'stay strong' resonates because all too often sistergirls and brotherboys suffer, not only from verbal harassment and ostracism, but also violence and sexual abuse.

2017, Stephen Kerry, Trans Dilemmas: Living in Australia’s Remote Areas and in Aboriginal Communities, unnumbered page:

This, however, is changing in some communities, with some sistergirls and brotherboys being able to negotiate participation in men's business or women's business, allowing for greater connection to country.

2019, Sonja J. Ellis, Damien W. Riggs, Elizabeth Peel, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex, and Queer Psychology: An Introduction, page 84:

For example, Jeremy, who identifies as a brotherboy (trans) and is bisexual, reveals: […]

2020, Corrinne Sullivan, “Indigenous Australian Sexualities Explored Through The Lens Of Sex Work”, in Anindita Datta, Peter Hopkins, Lynda Johnston, Elizabeth Olson, Joseli Maria Silva, editors, Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies, unnumbered page:

Australian Aboriginal
Australian Aboriginal

(Australian Aboriginal) A member of a traditional gender role in Australian Aboriginal cultures, resembling trans men.


gendervague

Someone who is gendervague cannot separate their gender identity from their neurodivergence—being autistic doesn't cause my gender identity, but it is inextricably related to how I understand and experience gender.

2016, Lydia X. Z. Brown, quoted in Finn V. Gratton, Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families (2019), page 15

[…] Julia Feliz—a gendervague, pansexual, Afro-Boricua (Puerto Rican)—created the flag design used in this image.

2019, "Acknowledgements", in Katie Steele & Julie Nicholson, Radically Listening to Transgender Children: Creating Epistemic Justice Through Critical Reflection and Resistant Imaginations, unnumbered page

Lei Wiley-Mydske is an autistic and otherwise disabled mom, […] activist, artist, and gendervague writer from the Pacific Northwest.

2021, “Contributors”, in Emily Paige Ballou, Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, Sharon daVanport, editors, Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity, page 204:

(neologism) Having a gender identity linked to one's neurodivergence (particularly autism).


mukhannath

en-noun

mukhannath (plural mukhannaths or mukhannathun)

mukhannaths (plural)
mukhannathun (plural)

(by extension, in Arab contexts) The receptive partner in homosexual activity.


boys' love

Calque of Japanese ボーイズラブ, which is wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), from English boys + love.

a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters; yaoi


g-girl

(LGBTQ slang) A genetic girl, a cis woman.


mispronoun

en-verb

mispronoun (third-person singular simple present mispronouns, present participle mispronouning, simple past and past participle mispronouned)

mispronouns (present singular third-person)
mispronouning (participle present)
mispronouned (participle past)
mispronouned (past)

At times, people mispronoun us, calling us by incorrect pronouns, or misgender us, assuming incorrect genders. Mispronouning and misgendering can be intentional or unintentional.

2014, Holiday Simmons, Fresh! White, “Our Many Selves”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 17:

If Victoria doesn't feel that she can sufficiently trust Susan to help her out when James, for example, mispronouns her, then Victoria may simply cease to eat lunch with her colleagues.

2017, Rachel McKinnon, “Allies Behaving Badly: Gaslighting as epistemic injustice”, in Ian James Kidd, José Medina, Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr., editors, The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice, page 171:

When trans people are forced to correct others after being mispronouned, they are reminding those they correct that their assumptions regarding both the individual in question and the larger system of gender are wrong.

2019, C. J. Venable, Kyle Inselman, Nick Thout, “Negotiating Fit While 'Misfit': Three Ways Trans Professionals Navigate Student Affairs”, in Brian J. Reece, Vu T. Tran, Elliott N. DeVore, Gabby Porcaro, editors, Debunking the Myth of Job Fit in Higher Education and Student Affairs, unnumbered page:

(transitive) To refer to (someone) using third-person pronouns other than their preferred gender pronouns, either unknowingly or intentionally.


cisfolk

“I want to fuck gender. What does that mean? It means taking gender, a beautiful, wonderful thing and rockin it just right. Most cisfolk, they're stuck holding hands. And that's not to say no cisfolk fuck gender, or that hand holding isn't its own amazing thing. […]”

2010 Spring, “The Queerest Art: Genderf*ck”, in OutWrite Newsmagazine, University of California, Los Angeles, page 7:

Trans* and trans each come from the abbreviation of transgender, the word that I've found resonates most with cisfolk above a certain age.

2014 October, Taylor Stocks, “Gender Lesson 201”, in The Outport, page 6:

[> A transgender person is going to a lot of trouble to insist on adopting a particular gender. Why wouldn't 'they' want to adopt the usual pronoun?]
Separate issues. Some cisfolk might also prefer 'they'.

2018 August 11, Richard Yates, “Re: non-binary gender pronoun confusion”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):


homonational

(LGBTQ) Of, pertaining to, or supporting homonationalism.


bisexy

en-adj

bisexy (comparative more bisexy, superlative most bisexy)

more bisexy (comparative)
most bisexy (superlative)

From reception, I was ushered up by some young secretary, cropped and trousered and sexy, perhaps even bisexy—who could tell? I wouldn't have put Sappho past her, […]

2000, Paul Golding, The Abomination, page 317:

Lestat's Coffee House. Yep, the name's a nod to one of the bisexy bloodsuckers in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, […]

2001, Access Guide to Gay USA, page 325:

So it would be, like, hella Julie Cooperish of us to suggest that the show is desperately trying to revive its shockingly slumpy sophomore season by sending boozy Marissa (Mischa Barton, right) into the bisexy arms of Alex (Olivia Wilde)?

2005 March 15, “O. C. Oh, puh-leeze”, in The Advocate, page 22:

(slang) Bisexual in an appealing manner; equally sexually attractive to men and women.


lesbigaytrans

lesbigaytrans (comparative more lesbigaytrans, superlative most lesbigaytrans)

more lesbigaytrans (comparative)
most lesbigaytrans (superlative)

Blend of lesbian + bisexual + gay + trans, probably modeled after lesbigay.

blend

I thought you might like to hear about how the bombing of the Otherside, a lesbian bar, in Atlanta is affecting us. It is a strange time, full of meetings with the various parts of the lesbigaytrans community.

1997, Feminist Bookstore News, volume 20, page 22:

(LGBTQ, informal) Of or relating to lesbian, bisexual, gay, and transgender/transsexual people or the LGBT community.


bicentrism

[…] characterizes three routes for the bisexual community: pansexuality, lesbigay focus, and bicentrism.

1994, James T. Sears, editor, Bound by Diversity: Essays, Prose, Photography, and Poetry, Columbia, SC: Sebastian Press, →ISBN, page 77:

Everybody that came over here and then left had essentially the same reaction: YUCK. A large part of that "yuck" was the highly evolved bisexuals who were quick at the gun with anything that didn't fit their bicentric notion of the universe. That a great deal of that bicentrism was thinly veiled homophobia didn't bother them in the least.

1996 October 7, Michael Thomas, “Re: The Curious Blinkers of Michael Thomas”, in soc.bi (Usenet):

(LGBTQ) The state or quality of being bicentric (having a bisexual bias or basis).


genderflux

While I am poly-genderflux (meaning I experience several different genders fluctuating), genderflux to others could just be some days feeling like a boy, and then other days not really having the same vibe. Essentially to me, genderflux ...

2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT+, Mango Media Inc., →ISBN:

Usually a genderflux person will identify as a man or a woman, on any given day. […]

2016, Angela N Tharp, Gender Spectrum Theory (West Haven, CT: University of New Haven)

(e.g. biflux, a genderflux identity with two specific gender aspects, or demigirl, […] )

2017, Johann S Koehle, Anti-Fat Bias as a Barrier to Transition-Related Medical Care (thesis submitted to The University of California, Santa Barbara)

“How do you describe yourself?” I asked. “Genderflux femme,” Cori said. “What's genderflux?” I asked. “Genderflux femme means I'm more and less femme. I'm fluxing ..."

2019, Ann Roberts, In the Silences, Bella Books, →ISBN:

This latter group includes, but is not limited to, those who experience not having a gender identity (agender) or as having a gender identity that is changing and shifting over time (genderfluid or genderflux).

2020 April, Guy T'Sjoen, Jon Arcelus, Annelou L.C. De Vries, Alessandra D. Fisher, Timo O. Nieder, Müjde Özer, Joz Motmans, “European Society for Sexual Medicine Position Statement “Assessment and Hormonal Management in Adolescent and Adult Trans People, With Attention for Sexual Function and Satisfaction””, in The Journal of Sexual Medicine, volume 17, number 4:

(LGBTQ, rare) Having a gender identity which fluctuates, either in intensity or between multiple genders.


aceflux

If we asked five different people who each claimed one of the aforementioned identities (asexual, graysexual, aceflux, zedsexual and someone who experiences sexual attraction but not in high amounts) to each place themselves on the same spectrum, […]
[quoting someone else] I used a bracket to show how my aceflux identity exists between experiencing little to medium amounts of attraction.

2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABCs of LGBT+, s, unnumbered page:

[…] Responses of gray-asexual, ace, asexual, acroflux, aceflux, and demisexual [people] were collapsed into the category of “asexual.”

2016, Vern Harner, Risk Factors, Unmet Needs, and Perceived Service Needs of Gender/Sexual Minority Emerging Adults in Phoenix:

In the context of emergent taxonomy, asexuality, ace, the range or spectrum of asexual sensibilities, aceflux and even aromantic identities are not produced within a binary framework that would pivot between the asexual/sexual assigned against moral/immoral or proper/improper dichotomised stereotypes.

2018, Rob Cover, Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era, unnumbered page:

Confused? My labels weren't meant for you. They were meant for me. (Aro/aceflux bisexual, Bigender, White)

2018, Kathleen Gallagher, The Methodological Dilemma Revisited: Creative, Critical and Collaborative Approaches to Qualitative Research for a New Era, Routledge, →ISBN:

I prefer websites, but most of my friends use apps. (24, female/non-binary, bisexual/demisexual/asexual spectrum/aceflux/aromantic)

2019, Paul Byron, “'Apps are cool but generally pretty pointless': LGBTIQ+ young people's mental health app ambivalence”, in Media International Australia, volume 171, number 1, page 58:

(LGBTQ, rare) Generally asexual, but sometimes experiencing varying degrees of sexual attraction and desire.


-flux

From flux (“flowing; inconstant; variable”).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:aroflux.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:demiflux.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:triflux.

(LGBTQ, rare) Having or pertaining to a gender identity or sexual orientation which fluctuates in intensity or between multiple options.


gay death

Indeed, gay death cuts to the fear of ageing that festers somewhere in all of us.

2015 August 20, Michael Koziol, “'Gay death': They say 30 is the new 25”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(informal, somewhat derogatory) The point in time in which it is perceived that a gay man has aged beyond his attractiveness, usually around 25 or 30 years of age.


panphobe

For quotations using this term, see Citations:panphobe.

A person who experiences or exhibits panphobia.


panphobic

en-adj

panphobic (comparative more panphobic, superlative most panphobic)

more panphobic (comparative)
most panphobic (superlative)

[She] developed, soon after the menopause, melancholic symptoms, with crises of panphobic terror.

1906, The Journal of Mental Science, page 794:

In addition to frequent panic attacks and her panphobic states, which had rendered her completely indigent vocationally and socially for many years, there were periods associated with marked anxiety […]

1970, Stanley Lesse, Anxiety: Its Components, Development, and Treatment, Grune & Stratton, Incorporated:

Howard Hughes was one of the most well known phobics of all time. He was microphobic (afraid of germs), agoraphobic (afraid of open spaces and unfamiliar places), and eventually he became panphobic (afraid of everything and everyone).

2008, Karla Clark, Annie's Heaven, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 67:

In part, this is because of the suspicious and panphobic defenses these veterans utilize, defenses that make it almost impossible for them to attain self-cohesion through merger.

2013, John P. Wilson, Zev Harel, Boaz Kahana, Human Adaptation to Extreme Stress: From the Holocaust to Vietnam, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 254:

[…] and there is phenomenal interest in rendering surfaces omniphobic or panphobic, as materials with such surfaces offer many exciting applications, ranging from mundane to highly sophisticated.

2018, K. L. Mittal, Advances in Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion, John Wiley & Sons

To dispel bi/pansexuality myths, and help combat confusion and bi/panphobic prejudice, this section explores […]

2020, Corey E. Flanders, Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience, Routledge

Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting panphobia.


cross-live

en-verb

cross-live (third-person singular simple present cross-lives, present participle cross-living, simple past and past participle cross-lived)

cross-lives (present singular third-person)
cross-living (participle present)
cross-lived (participle past)
cross-lived (past)

From cross- + live. Possibly modelled after cross-dress.

For example, there apparently is a clinic in Canada that makes people crosslive for a year before giving them hormones!

1996, Geri Nettick, Beth Elliot, Mirrors: Portrait of a Lesbian Transsexual, New York, NY: Masquerade Books, →ISBN, page 332:

Although some of these subjects were lesbians inclined to cross-dress and to cross-live in order to cope with social prohibition of woman-to-woman sexual relationships, it is likely that at least some male-identified subjects who were biologically born as female had come to realize a psychological transgender male identity.

2002, Billy E. Jones, Marjorie J. Hill, editors, Mental Health Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Communities (Review of Psychiatry; 21), Washington, D.C.: American Psychiatric Publishing, →ISBN, page unknown:

[Transgenderists] will probably, although not necessarily, cross-live (see next section) and/or take part in hormonal therapies that would cause certain sex characteristic changes.

2005, Liz Winfeld, Straight Talk About Gays in the Workplace: Creating an Inclusive, Productive Environment for Everyone in Your Organization, London: Routledge, published 2013, →ISBN, page unknown:

I also don't consider Transgenderists to be a different creature from a Transsexual -- I consider the two to be two points on a spectrum. Some people can get by with crossliving, while others need to take further steps.

2009 July 22, Nicole Massey, “Re: So...”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-13:

(intransitive, LGBTQ) To live full-time in a gender role different from that associated with the sex one was assigned at birth.


no-ho

Coordinate term: no-op

hormone replacement therapy
hormone replacement therapy

(LGBTQ, of a transgender or transsexual person) Having chosen not to undergo hormone replacement therapy.


no-ho

Coordinate term: no-op

So the no-ho's & crosslivers tend to push buttons among the usually more mainstream ts's, esp at alt.support.srs which is supposed to be a support group reserved for srs-related issues (not that one can tell any more).

2005 February 13, cat-o-matic, “Re: A Rationale for SRS”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

(LGBTQ) A transgender or transsexual person who has chosen not to undergo hormone replacement therapy.


cross-liver

1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Maybe the stigma comes from being either a TV or a TS—but there is a middle ground that I've never considered...what Georgia calls a "cross-liver." Someone who takes hormones & lives their desired gender role, but who have not necessarily made a decision on having surgery.

And that doesn't invalidate or lessen the T*ness of the person. Some people believe that being afull^([sic]) time crossliver makes them somehow more than a person who dresses up on the odd Tuesday night.

1998 February 11, Katheryn D'Medici, “Re: Close Calls - Comments?”, in alt.fashion.crossdressing (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-12:

My point was that if someone got m2f SRS and continued to 'present' as a crossliver rather than as an 'f', you would have fewer objections to 'her' as a person than to someone who wished to disappear into 'cisgendered' society.

1999 July 5, Jan, “Re: Rubber ckickens and other lawn ornaments”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

So the no-ho's & crosslivers tend to push buttons among the usually more mainstream ts's, […]


gender expression

en-noun

gender expression (plural gender expressions)

A person's selection of behavior, mannerisms, interests, and appearance that are associated with gender in a particular cultural context.


Garnet

Garnet (Steven Universe)
Garnet, California
Garnet, Michigan
Garnet, Montana
Garnet, Wisconsin

census-designated place
census-designated place

Riverside County
Riverside County#English

A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.

An unincorporated community in Mackinac County, Michigan, United States.

A ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States.

Fond du Lac County
Fond du Lac County#English

An unincorporated community in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin, United States.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Ruby and Sapphire from the Steven Universe series, who combine to create the character Garnet.


gayfolk

SO's affection for cats is important, but not nearly as important as not being allergic!

1992 November 23, Joseph E. Beason, “Re: gayfolk and cats”, in soc.motss (Usenet):

The gayfolk on the Mall, from Chicago and Bridgeport, Santa Cruz and South Bend, Denver, Atlanta, and Honolulu, were of the formulaic ethnic diversity you'd expect in a forties Hollywood bomber crew (directed by George Cukor, maybe).

South Beach is still full of debauched nightlife, much of it gay or lavender-tinged. But gentrification, which so often follows gayfolk to their ghettos, nudged much of the gay population out of Miami Beach in the 1990s.

2019 June 19, Brandon Thorp, “Why Miami Is the Greatest Gay Destination in America”, in Thrillist:


straightfolk

turning down one sheet / in our little room / while down below / the straightfolk come and go / looking for stray sons after dark.

1994, Thomas O'Neil, Sex with God, page 45:

Here is a story for you, Straightfolk of Straightworld: In May 1895, the great writer Oscar Wilde was put on trial in London for the crime of sexual indecency with other men.

2015 February 26, “The hart”, in Arkansas Times:

This ancient idea that the most "universal" (or, cough, American) story is one contingent on the problems of wealthy white, cis, straightfolk is very much still alive and thriving.

2019 September 16, Joshua Young, “In the Spotlight with The Public Theater’s Emerging Writer’s Group”, in The Brooklyn Rail:

(informal) Straight (heterosexual) people.


LGBTQQIA

(LGBTQ) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transexual, queer, questioning, intersex, and allied/asexual/aromantic/agender.


homophobephobe

[I don't want to be tarred as a homophobephobe, or any kind of phobe really.]

1997 June 11, Ben Edgington, “Re: Same-sex blessing...???”, in uk.religion.christian (Usenet):

Dorothy and Mary, from your excessive reaction, you are troll/homophobephobes.

2011 May 13, Hyogoro, “Re: The code in Mona Lisa's eyes solved.”, in rec.arts.mystery (Usenet):

Of course, if one is a “phobe” for opposing a behavior, then those who call others homophobes are actually by their own standards "homophobephobes."

2014, Steve C. Halbrook, God Is Just: A Defense of the Old Testament Civil Laws, page 240:

(often sarcastic) A person who dislikes or fears homophobes.


allonormativity

Because aces differ so much, the ideologies of compulsory sexuality, sex normativity, amatonormativity, and even allonormativity will tend to operate differently upon different types of aces.

2015, Laura, "Asexual community politics and sex aversion", F-ace-ing Silence, Issue 2, January 2015, page 18

The sooner campuses acknowledge asexuality as a sexual identity, the sooner they can begin examining and addressing the ways they perpetuate allonormativity.

2019, Amanda L. Mollett, Brian Lackman, “Asexual Student Invisibility and Erasure in Higher Education: 'I Thought I Was the Only One'”, in Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher, Devika Dibya Choudhuri, Jason L. Taylor, editors, Rethinking LGBTQIA Students and Collegiate Contexts: Identity, Policies, and Campus Climate, unnumbered page:

In such a context, those who identify as asexual, inundated as is common by such norms of what we might refer to as allonormativity, are left, as blogger @theacetheist notes, with only two theses with which to incorrectly regard their existences: “I am not a sexual being, therefore I am not human,” or, alternatively, “I am human, therefore I am a sexual being.”

2019, Constance Bougie, “Pink Gauze, Cold Spirits: Asexual Criticism and Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway”, in Oshkosh Scholar, volume 14, Oshkosh: University of Wisconsin, page 99:

(neologism) The assumption that all human beings are allosexual or alloromantic, i.e. that they experience sexual attraction and/or romantic attraction to other people.


skolioromantic

From Ancient Greek σκολιός (skoliós, “curved, bent”) + romantic, modelled after skoliosexual.

der

Luckily, I don’t have to have only one label—I can identify as homosexual and skolioromantic at the same time.

2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT+, page 154:

Skolio- refers to people who are romantically (skolioromantic) or sexually (skoliosexual) attracted to people of nonbinary genders.

2017, Paul Byron et al., ‘You learn from each other’: LGBTIQ Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the RAD Australia Online Directory, Young and Well CRC, Western Sydney University, page 60:

Some authors on asexuality have attempted to create subcategories of aesthetic attractions as well. Julie Sondra Decker describes the variants of aesthetic attraction on the basis of specific traits, with sub-labels including androromantic, gyneromantic, skolioromantic or ambiromantic, pomoromantic, lithromantic (Decker, 2014, 21).

2023, Maya Ghosh Lisbin, A-Spec: Conceptualizing asexual identity, experience and phenomenological form, Brandeis University (thesis), page 30:

Romantically attracted to transgender or non-binary and genderqueer people.


biamorous

en-adj

biamorous (comparative more biamorous, superlative most biamorous)

more biamorous (comparative)
most biamorous (superlative)

It is my belief that love, sex, and friendship are different and independent and that you can desire any combination of those with any person. It is no shock to me that you may be bisexual, but not biamorous.

1994 November 17, Wayne Bryant, “Re: Serious question”, in soc.bi (Usenet):

I tend to say "biamorous" for that sort of situation. There have certainly been times when I was monosexual but biamorous, and I'm sure there will be more of them. Sexual and amorous identity can be a very fluid thing.

2001 October 9, cynical innocent, “Re: [URL]”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):

(rare) Open to having a romantic relationship with both males and females; biromantic.


Spangel

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Spike and Angel from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.


androromantic

Coordinate term: gyneromantic

There are also romantic identities that exist outside of the gender binary and consist of: androromantic (attracted to male-identified persons), gyneromantic/gynoromantic (attracted to female-identified persons), and transromantic (attracted toward transgender persons, i.e., male-to-female or female-tomale individuals).

2016, Sarah M. Steelman, Katherine M. Hertlein, “Underexplored Identities: Attending to Asexuality in Therapeutic Contexts”, in Journal of Family Psychotherapy, volume 27, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 89:

Gabriel – androromantic¹⁷⁸ gender-queer half-Pole, half-Mexican. Grew up in Mexico City, moved to Kraków to attend university (Slavic languages).

2019 May 27, Anna Jastrzembska, From invisibility to political witch-hunt: The influence of everyday marginalization on the sense of Polish and European belonging among the LGBTQ+ minority in Poland (Master's Degree thesis), Lund University – Masters of Arts Program in European Studies, page 30:

Romantically attracted to men, male-identified persons, or masculinity.


gyneromantic

From Ancient Greek γῠνή (gunḗ, “woman”) + romantic.

Coordinate term: androromantic

Whereas most of the sample identified as heterosexual (89%), sexual minorities made up about ten percent; 3.3% identified as gay; 1.9% identified as lesbian; 4.8% identified as bisexual; one individual identified as “gyneromantic/demisexual,” while another identified as “pansexual.”

2013 Fall, Julio Montanez, At the Frontlines of the Kulturkampf: Social Policy Positions of Undergraduate Students at a Large University in the Southeastern United States (Honors (B.A.) thesis), Orlando, FL: University of Central Florida – College of Sciences, The Burnett Honors College – Honors in the Major Program in Political Science, page 89:

Romantically attracted to women, female-identified persons, or femininity.


lithromantic

From lith- (“stone”) + romantic, invoking the LGBT meaning of stone (“willing to give but not receive pleasure”), as in stone butch.

They listened to me and didn't talk about my gender and sexuality issues when I didn't bring it up. They also never said anything rude or judged me for the alternative or feminine clothes I started to wear. (16, agender/man, grey-asexual/sensual, grey-aromantic, demisexual/sensual, demiromantic, sapiosexual/sensual, sapioromantic, lithsexual/sensual, lithromantic, quoiromantic.)

2017 February, Paul Byron, Sophia Rasmussen, Dani Wright Toussaint, Roanna Lobo, Kerry Robinson, Brett Paradise, ‘You learn from each other’: LGBTIQ Young People’s Mental Health Help-seeking and the RAD Australia Online Director, Sydney: Western Sydney University Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre, →DOI, →ISBN, page 31:

His sexuality could also be interpreted as lithoromantic, akoiromantic or apromantic, considering that he does not want or need the sexual attraction he has for Valbar to be reciprocated, highlighting sub-asexual identity spectrums that don't usually find themselves represented in video games.

2018 February 16, Tom Buckland, “Forge Games' Top 5 LGBT+ Characters”, in Forge Press, University of Sheffield, page 19:

Experiencing romantic attraction without a need or desire for reciprocation.


alumnx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Latinate suffixes -us and -a. Compare Latinx, Mx.

-a-us-x

Since re-booting the Alumnx Council last fall, we've embarked on a fresh direction that we're very excited about. Through projects and initiatives aimed at you, our mission is to provide support, encourage connection, and strengthen the ties of our alumnx community.

2018 Winter/Spring, John Schwerbel, “Alumnx HQ: A Note From the Chair”, in The Pool, number 2, California Institute of the Arts, page 63:

vsc & vcfa alumnx exhibition: “It went like this: the skyline was beautiful on fire,” works by 24 alumnx created in response to contemporary political upheaval, juried by Meg Onli.

2018 May 9, “Art: New This Week”, in Seven Days, volume 23, number 34, Burlington, VT: Da Capo Publishing Inc., page 76:

This study examines the relationship between undergraduate experience and alumnx factors on perceptions of campus climate for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, and queer (LGBTQ) graduates of four-year higher education institutions in the U.S. […] Findings from the step-wise regression explained 45% of the variance in perceptions of campus climate for LGBTQ alumnx.

2018 Fall, Jason C. Garvey, Maureen A. Flint, Laura A. Sanders, “Perceptions of Campus Climate among LGBTQ Alumnx”, in Philanthropy & Education, volume 2, number 1, →DOI, page 97:

A typical process entails bringing together staff responsible for designing these interactions: admissions, new student orientation, housing, academic advising, student affairs, LGBT+ resource center (if a campus has one), registrar, health providers and health educators, development and alumnx relations, and so forth.

2020, Kristen A. Renn, “Success for LGBT College and University Students”, in Gail Crimmins, editor, Strategies for Supporting Inclusion and Diversity in the Academy: Higher Education, Aspiration and Inequality, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, →DOI, →ISBN, page 191:

(neologism, often proscribed) An alumnus or alumna (of any gender).


xenogender

From xeno- (“strange”) + gender. Coined by American Tumblr user baaphomett on June 24, 2014, at age 19 or 20, along with other gender-related terms.

coinage

(LGBTQ) A non-binary gender that is defined not in relation to male or female but by characteristics connected to a thing or concept.


TME

(LGBTQ) Abbreviation of transmisogyny-exempt.


transfem

en-adj

transfem (comparative more transfem, superlative most transfem)

more transfem (comparative)
most transfem (superlative)

Coordinate term: transmasc

Self-described transfem performer and activist The Lady B, a cast member of the show “Dear White People,” says gender-fluid identity poses daily challenges. [image caption]

2017 January 26, Tyrone Beason, “Black Like Me: It’s time for a deeper conversation about race in America”, in Pacific NW Magazine:

“People are always surprised when I tell them, but as transfem nonbinary folks, what we face is drastic,” Mx. Tobia said, explaining how on a visit to New York not long ago they listened in horror on a subway car as two strangers loudly discussed whether to set them aflame. “They were, like: ‘What is that? We should be burning that.’”

2018 September 18, Guy Trebay, “For Capitalism, Every Social Leap Forward Is a Marketing Opportunity”, in The New York Times:


transfem

Coordinate term: transmasc

The #1 leading cause of death for transfems is lack of cuddles.

2023 April 8, RobinsEggViolet, “Comment on 'I just want to fall asleep in someone's arms ;_;'”, in r/MtF, Reddit, archived from the original on 2023-04-09:

(LGBTQ, informal) A trans woman or other transfeminine person.


ex-lesbian

A woman who considers herself to be no longer lesbian, usually due to pseudoscientific conversion therapy.


unicorn hunter

en:Austrogomphus cornutus
en:Unicorn hunting

Someone who invests in startups that may become unicorns (startups whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars).


transpopulation

I am not aware of any ethnographic or historical projects whose sole focus is some aspect of a Latina/o transpopulation.

2009, Marcia Ochoa, “Latina/o Transpopulations”, in Marysol Asencio, editor, Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies, page 236:

The legislation extended certain ‘rights’ to some within the wider transpopulation to the exclusion of others.

2011, Christie Elan-Cane, “Fighting for legal and social recognition outside the gendered societal structure”, in Alice Purnell, Jed Bland, editors, Trans in the Twenty First Century: Concerning Gender Diversity, page 130:

Vaccination against hepatitis A and B is available. We do not know what percentage of the MTF transpopulation have received it and, in fact, how informed they are of its availability.

2013, Michael Shankle, The Handbook of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Public Health: A Practitioner's Guide to Service, unnumbered page:

The population of transgender people, particularly in a specific region.

It should be remarked, that as dynasties changed the transpopulation which made Babylon decline was frequently repeated; as under Seleucus, for the benefit of Seleucia, so under the Parthians for the benefit of Ctesiphon, under the Arabs for that of Baghdad.

1866, Rowland Williams, The Hebrew Prophets Translated Afresh from the Original, […] , volume 1, Williams and Norgate, →OCLC, page 297:

Transpopulation of these hemopoietic and lymphopoietic tissues back to host-type tissue was induced by the intravenous injection of spleen, but not so far by lymph node, cells isologous with the host.

1963, “8436 A/CONF.15/P/97”, in The Effects of Radiation and Radioisotopes on the Life Processes: […] , US Atomic Energy Commission, →OCLC, page 990:

The significance of this area for his state's security is seen in Philip's measures to consolidate it: perhaps now his “transpopulation” policy began, whereby Macedonians proper were encouraged to move to live in areas where previously there had been a mixed stock, and perhaps even another marriage-alliance (to Phila, of the Elimiote royal house).

2002, Joseph Roisman, Brill's Companion to Alexander the Great, page 77:

The act of altering one or more populations by the introduction of a different population or the removal of a particular subpopulation.


Calzona

And as long as they were together, Calzona (Callie + Arizona) were a model couple.

2016, Claudia Riconda, Grey’s Pride: How Grey’s Anatomy Has Changed Our Lives, unnumbered page:

As for Ramirez, she'd debut on CBS's Madam Secretary a year and a half later, and with a new look that restored the pulses of Calzona fans everywhere.

2021, Lesley Goldberg, quoted in Lynette Rice, How to Save a Life: The Inside Story of Grey's Anatomy, unnumbered page

Javi also delivered a eulogy memorializing the breakup of Calzona and their sapphic love.

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Callie Torres and Arizona Robbins from the television series Grey's Anatomy.


masculine of center

masculine of center (not generally comparable, comparative more masculine of center, superlative most masculine of center)

more masculine of center (comparative)
most masculine of center (superlative)

Coined by B. Cole in 2008. Compare left of center, right of center.

Coordinate term: feminine of center

Working-class women, non-white women, some transwomen, and butch/ masculine-of-center women are stereotypically less fragile than the “ideally” feminine woman.

2015, Robin James, Resilience & Melancholy: Pop Music, Feminism, Neoliberalism, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:

[…] where there was a plethora of even more well-dressed masculine of center heart throbs and their writings, […]

2017 Fall, Vanessa Rochelle Lews, "Nourrir Spotlight", in Nourrir, issue 12, page 21

The Queer Resource Center announced that they will be hosting an event series for transmasculine and masculine of center communities called the T-House, […]

2020 Nov. 19 - Dec. 2, An Pham, "Charlie and the T-House Event Series", in The Guardsman (City College of San Francisco), volume 170, issue 7, page 4

(LGBTQ) Having a gender identity or presentation that is on the masculine side; masc or butch.


feminine of center

feminine of center (not generally comparable, comparative more feminine of center, superlative most feminine of center)

more feminine of center (comparative)
most feminine of center (superlative)

Modelled on the slightly earlier masculine of center (and more generally, left of center, right of center).

Coordinate term: masculine of center

This is also gendered: it is women and feminine-of-centre people who are producing these forms of activism as well as being fodder for appropriation. What started as resistance and critique by people with limited capital to participate in ...

2016, Charlotte Cooper, Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement, Intellect Books, →ISBN:

Moreover, Miss Andry was the only participant who identified feminine of center. When taking into consideration the social forces faced by a feminine of center person on a dating app like Grindr, an app oriented for men who have sex with men ...

2020, D. Nicole Farris, D'Lane R. Compton, Andrea P. Herrera, Gender, Sexuality and Race in the Digital Age, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 133:

(LGBTQ) Having a gender identity or presentation that is on the feminine side; femme.


nonbinarity

Assimilation : optionality versus nonbinarity, and natural classes

1992, Heinz J. Giegerich, English Phonology: An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 213:

The namer's power to authorize the pairing of word and thing underscores the nonbinarity of the sign even as it insures that pairing.

1992, Susan Derwin, Professor Susan Derwin, The Ambivalence of Form: Lukács, Freud, and the Novel, Johns Hopkins University Press:

"Innocence" here takes the form of a nonbinarity between binarity (day and night divided by the punctual moment of sunset) and nonbinarity (the fading light in which the moment is embedded, making the boundary negotiable).

1997, Ira Livingston, Arrow of Chaos: Romanticism and Postmodernity, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 2:

None of the norms of identification for sex need change much for someone who is clearly male or clearly female when they discover the nonbinarity of biological sex.

2007, Jorge J. E. Gracia, Race Or Ethnicity?: On Black and Latino Identity:

Nonbinarity can also enter into MV-optimal GGDDs with s>1, as demonstrated next. Though neither binarity nor equal replication is required, Theorem 3.8(i) does imply binarity when p = 0.

2015, Angela Dean, Max Morris, John Stufken, Derek Bingham, Handbook of Design and Analysis of Experiments, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 122:


non-binarity

From non-binary + -ity or non- + binarity.

Beyond Ladefoged's arguments for non-binarity (1970), I feel that the human nervous system is not constructed in a way that it could use binarity easily, either in perception or production.

Through his use of ellipsis, understatement, unspecified agency, and non-binarity, Johnson is thus attempting to bring about a change in the status of the Negro without explicitly acknowledging or processing conflict and dispossession.

1990, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Reading Black, Reading Feminist: A Critical Anthology, Plume:

As regards its particular mass and age, and probably its non-binarity, "anthropic" explanations may seem in place. The possible tendency for the Sun, as compared with similar stars, to be somewhat rich in iron relative to other elements […]

1998, Claus Fröhlich, M. Huber, S.K. Solanki, Rudolf von Steiger, Solar Composition and its Evolution — from Core to Corona: Proceedings of an Issi Workshop 26-30 January 1998, Bern, Switzerland, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 419:

On the non-binarity of the null subject parameter

2003, Josep Quer i Carbonell, Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 2001: Selected Papers from 'Going Romance,' Amsterdam, 6-8 December 2001, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 32:

Nor can we maintain the converse position that a defining property of parameters is non-binarity, as there appear to be some, most notably the directionality parameters, which by their very nature are binary.

2019, I. M. Roca, Logical Issues in Language Acquisition, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, →ISBN, page 13:

The quality of being non-binary (not binary); absence of binarity.


queer as a coot

(simile, UK, informal) Ostentatiously homosexual.


Big Mike

Calque of French Gros Michel; from gros (“big”) + Michel (“Michael”)


heteronationalism

en-noun

heteronationalism (countable and uncountable, plural heteronationalisms)

(neologism) The association of a nationalist ideology with heterosexual ideals used against LGBTI people and as an antagonism of countries where LGBTI rights have been legislated.


beat the dummy

en-verb

beat the dummy (third-person singular simple present beats the dummy, present participle beating the dummy, simple past beat the dummy, past participle beaten the dummy or beat the dummy)

beats the dummy (present singular third-person)
beating the dummy (participle present)
beat the dummy (past)
beaten the dummy (participle past)
beat the dummy (participle past)


tucute

McConnell said that because of this, people who do have gender dysphoria and wish to take those same hormones or have the surgery have less access to these resources as "tucutes" have already used some of them.

2018 December 14, Natalie Cerf, “How The Media And The LGBTQ+ Community Interact”, in Redwood Bark, Redwood High School, Larkspur, CA, page 14:

Generally, tucutes are defined by their belief that gender dysphoria isn’t necessary to be transgender.

2019, Jessica Rae Fisher, "Transgender Digital Embodiments: Questions Of The Transgender Body In The 21st Century", thesis submitted to Kennesaw State University (May 2019), page 38

I personally fall closer to the transmedicalist end of the transmed/tucute political spectrum; but, my position does not give me, or any other person in the transmed or tucute community, the right to belittle other people.

2019, Olliver Benton, "'I'm Not Afraid of My Name Anymore'", Aerial (Atherton High School, Louisville, KY), Volume 94, Issue 4, Summer 2019, page 33

(Internet slang, neologism) A person who believes that gender dysphoria is not an essential requirement for being transgender.


GLBO

Initialism of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and other.

initialism

An electronic library with news clippings, political contact information, newsletters, essays, images, hyperlinks, and every other kind of information resource of interest to the GLBO community.

(obsolete) Alternative form of LGBO (“related to sexual minorities”)


GLBO

Does Atlanta have, or is it ever planning to have, a similar undercover operation to try to cut down on violence against GLBOs?

(obsolete) Alternative form of LGBO (“a sexual minority”)


LGBTO

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, and other. Used mostly on Usenet communities such as soc.motss. Expansion of earlier LGBO to explicitly include trans identities.

I might point to Canada where limitations on free publication promoted by certain feminists have empowered the police to stage raid after raid on LGBTO bookstores.

However, the use of "non-heterosexual" and "Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Others (LGBTO)," the mixed genders of the group, and the ambiguous "motss" label, contribute toward a queer formation.

2007, David J. Phillips, Queer Online: Media Technology & Sexuality:

Established to continue the work of mindful inclusivity for all students identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and others (LGBTO). FLAVOR seeks to further the work of promoting social justice and educational activities that address wellness, community advocacy and mutual personal advancement of the LGBTO student body.

c. 2019, “Student Life & Activities”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2019-06-19:

(now rare) Being a gender or sexual minority, or relating to these classes of people.


LGBO

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other. Intended as a more inclusive alternative to the earlier LGB or GLB. Especially popular on the newsgroup soc.motss, where it was likely coined.

But Chester Street is hardly a gay bar, is it? Just because it's a disco place and there isn't anywhere else much for an LGBO person to go in Chambana?

1990 December 1, Jess Anderson, “Closeted Future Politico (was <None>)”, in soc.motss (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-11:

She started and still maintains many Internet mailing lists for the LGBO community.

1995, Katherine Arnup, Lesbian Parenting: Living with Pride & Prejudice:

I am currently making six fifteen minute programmes about LGBO life around the world called "The Pink Planet" to be broadcast on Pride FM.

1995 April 19, c:demonspoolmail, “PRIDE FM (London)”, in rec.radio.noncomm (Usenet), retrieved 2022-12-11:

...a conversation for the LGBO community: is this over-representation a Bad Thing?
(It's actually just part of the gay mafia takeover, but we keep quiet about that)

2020 November 26, @urbaneprofessor, Twitter:

For the purposes of this reporting, 'LGBO' includes adults who report identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or something else/other sexual orientation. Key findings from this year's report include the following:[…]

2022 June 7, New York State Department of Health, “In Recognition of Pride Month, State Department of Health Releases Health Disparities Report On LGBTQ+ New Yorkers”, in New York State Department of Health, retrieved 2022-12-11:

(obsolete) Being a sexual minority, or related to sexual minorities as a class of people.


LGBO

Trent Lesbian & Gay Collective […] A group for LGBO's of Peterborough, Trent Univ. & Sir Sanford Fleming College, currently considering a name change to be more inclusive to bisexual community members.

1996, Robyn Ochs, The Bisexual Resource Guide:

(obsolete) A gay person or other sexual minority.


hair fairy

Most "hair-fairies" (also referred to as "street queens") use feminine pronouns and terms of reference among themselves […]

1968, Roxanna Beryl Thayer Sweet, Political and Social Action in Homophile Organizations, page 79:

There came a time when the role of the hair fairy was no longer enough. They wanted to be more like real women, and the logical way to do this was to dress as one.

1974, Lee Rainwater, Social Problems and Public Policy: Deviance and Liberty, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 317:

Young hustlers, dealers, drug users, transvestites, effeminate “hair fairies,” and runaways (supported by progressive ministers at Glide Memorial Methodist Church) established Vanguard, a group that challenged typical notions of propriety, ...

2007, Stephan Cohen, The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: ‘An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail’, Routledge, →ISBN, page 25:

"No one deplores freaks of their set more than those involved in attempting to fade in the background. But this is America. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on whether you are a 210-pounder [woman] who enjoys waddling down Market Street or a Hair Fairy who feels that he must be a freak in order to gain attention.” CN 4.4, 5.

2012, Todd J. Ormsbee, The Meaning of Gay: Interaction, Publicity, and Community among Homosexual Men in 1960s San Francisco, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 245:

(chiefly in the plural, historical) One of a category of gay queens or proto-trans women in the 1960s and 70s who wore their hair long and teased it.


bull-dagger

(LGBTQ, slang) A masculine or butch lesbian. (See usage notes about dyke (“lesbian”).)


trans bash

en-verb

trans bash (third-person singular simple present trans bashes, present participle trans bashing, simple past and past participle trans bashed)

trans bashes (present singular third-person)
trans bashing (participle present)
trans bashed (participle past)
trans bashed (past)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-trans bash.wav

(transitive, slang) To physically or verbally assault or victimize someone due to the victim's being (or appearing to be) transgender (including non-binary).


cissplaining

-For me what matters is whether they’d stop if I asked them, or whether I’d get this outburst of cisplaining!

2012, anonymous, "Discuss: LGBT Culture", No Definition (Cambridge Students' Union), Easter 2012, page 30

I often thought that as a straight, cisgender woman, maybe activism “wasn't my place” and certainly didn't want to fall into the trap of “cisplaining,” if you get my meaning.

2015, Victoria Lemay, "Allies must stand for trans teens", QNotes, 16 January 2015 - 29 January 2015, page 4

Nowhere was cisplaining more evident than in gender identity clinics.

2021, Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes: And the Unwritten History of the Trans Experience, page 230:

The act of condescendingly explaining transgender issues (as a cis person) to a trans person.


queer parade

By surface analysis, queer + parade, but in regards to South Korean usage, it is a calque of Korean 퀴어 퍼레이드 (kwieo peoreideu), which is from English queer + parade.


alterous

These attractions might include, but are not limited to: sexual, romantic, platonic, aesthetic, and alterous attractions.

2016, Ashley Mardell, The ABC's of LGBT+, Mango Media Inc., →ISBN:

These include: the (nonsexual, nonromantic) aesthetic attraction, platonic attraction, sensual attraction and alterous attraction. Together, these complexify the field of attraction per se to the point that the heterosexual matrix becomes […]

2018, Rob Cover, Emergent Identities: New Sexualities, Genders and Relationships in a Digital Era, Routledge, →ISBN:

(LGBTQ) Pertaining to or characterized by an attraction to someone which is intermediate between platonic and romantic.


kai kai

Related to kiki: either related to the sense "lesbian who is neither butch nor femme" because a butch who was sexual with another butch was considered un-butch and thus kiki, and likewise a femme sexual with another femme, and the term was then extended to a trans person who was sexual with another trans person or a drag queen who was sexual with another drag queen, or perhaps extended from the sense "gathering for gossiping, social activity".

Speaking of love, were there any hookups on RuPaul's Drag Race? A little kai kai, perhaps? (Kai Kai is a term that is used to talk about two drag queens having sexual relations.)

2010 February, Michael Steck, “Michael vs Pandora: Round 1”, in The Empty Closet, number 431, page 1:

William's parodies—including "The Vagina Song, "Chow Down," "Let's Have a Kai Kai," "Love You Like a Big Schlong" and, most recently, "Boy is a Bottom"—have proven to be prime examples of William's comedic abilities.

2013 April, Frontiers, volume 31, issue 25, "For A Good Time, Call William", page 50

But the other night with Ace marked my first kai kai, and it was in a toilet worse than that of a gay club. That's growth. Doing stuff in drag was not much different from doing stuff out of drag. All the parts work the same, and it's quite fun […]

2020, Crystal Rasmussen, Tom Rasmussen, Diary of a Drag Queen:

(LGBTQ, slang) Sexual activity or intercourse between drag queens.


Abbreviation of trans for trans. Popularized on the personals section of Craigslist in the early 2000s. Compare M4M, M4F, F4F, W4W, etc.

Gay chat rooms therefore evolved into m4m (men for men), T4T (trans for trans), bisexual chat, leather and bear, lipstick lesbian, etc. By the mid-90's, it wasn't unusual to see mm4mm groups (married men for married men) and other [even more] highly specific types of discussion groups.

2008, Kimeron N. Hardin, Loving Ourselves: The Gay and Lesbian Guide to Self-esteem, Alyson Books, page 278:

Online, t4t tends to denote an erotic orientation or practice, but in [Torrey] Peters' novella it also becomes an ethos around which a group of trans women organize themselves […]

2020, Cameron Awkward-Rich, “T4T: Toward a Crip Ethics of Trans Literary Criticism”, in Alice Hall, editor, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(transgender) Of, pertaining to, or focused on relationships between trans people.

Likewise, a lot of people who have spewed hate over trans people seemed extremely confused at the idea that trans people could date each other - newsflash, gender and sexuality are different things and T4T (“trans for trans”) couples are fairly common in the LGBTQ+ community!

2023 May 8, Erin Reed, “The Zooey Zephyr I Love, From The Woman She Just Proposed To”, in Erin In The Morning, archived from the original on 2023-06-18:

(transgender) Of a couple or relationship: between trans people.


I remember how I used to be before the contagion. Embarrassed to be seen with another trans woman, for fear that her transness would reveal my transness and we'd both get clocked. T4T is an ideal, I guess, and we fall short of it most of the time. But that's better than before. All it took was the end of the world to make that happen.

2016 August 23, Torrey Peters, Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, pages 54–55:


interphobia

Behrensen condemns the practice of targeting certain athletes and subjecting them to the indignity and humiliation of a procedure that has no bearing on athletic ability and that further violates privacy in the service of accommodating interphobia.

2017, Thomas Keith, Masculinities in Contemporary American Culture: An Intersectional Approach to the Complexities and Challenges of Male Identity, page 283:

I knew those attitudes were out there, but I'd already learned that I had to reject the racism I'd experienced as a child, and the homophobia later on, so it seemed natural to also reject the interphobia I saw directed at intersex people.

2018, August McLaughlin, Girl Boner: The Good Girl's Guide to Sexual Empowerment, unnumbered page:

Many intersex people and intersex studies scholars note how various oppressive systems—interphobia, heterosexism, phallogocentrism, queerphobia, as well as compulsory dyadism, heterosexuality, and able-bodiedness—work together to justify curative violence.

2021, Rohini Bannerjee, Karim Mukhida, From Band-Aids to Scalpels: Motherhood Experiences in/of Medicine, Demeter Press, →ISBN:

Fear, dislike, or hatred of intersexual people and/or intersexuality.


male-fail

en-verb

male-fail (third-person singular simple present male-fails, present participle male-failing, simple past and past participle male-failed)

male-fails (present singular third-person)
male-failing (participle present)
male-failed (participle past)
male-failed (past)

I just male-failed with a customer and I'm so happy!

Was blonde until last year and since going red, things changed a lot. I male-fail so much more often and people talk to me more. It’s good but weird. 💁♀

So, I guess I male-failed at work today? Sweet old lady with her grandkids, didn't bother correcting herself when she got closer... Yay for me? 😁

2019 February 21, @Gravy_Bunny, Twitter:

(intransitive, informal, transgender) Of a trans woman: to fail to pass as male; to make a successful male-to-female transition.


gayling

They will gather their own gaylings and dykelings and Miss Things at the hem of their own caftans. They'll wheel the old queen out.

2002, Alisa Solomon, Framji Minwalla, The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Gay Theater, page 253:

(LGBTQ slang) A young or immature gay (homosexual) person.


QPOC

Those identifying as QPOC frequently face racist attitudes in the White gay community. While QPOC are subtly excluded from mainstream gay imagery, more overt forms of racism persist as well.

2009, Sheila Addison, Deborah Coolhart, “Integrating Socially Segregated Identities: Queer Couples and the Question of Race”, in Mudita Rastogi, Volker Thomas, editors, Multicultural Couple Therapy, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, Inc., →ISBN:


bottom growth

Bottom growth within days, noticed my vocal cords are being funny two weeks in and voice dropped around the third month.

2014 April 18, [Unknown], “Recently started T. How long did it take you guys to start seeing and feeling changes?”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2024-02-04, comments:

Growth of the clitoris under masculinizing HRT.


transface

From trans + face (attested online since at least 2009), based on earlier blackface; compare yellowface, redface, etc.

[…] the days of transface are numbered.

2018, The New York Times Editorial Staff, Sex and Sexuality, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 79:

A particularly troubling outcome of transface is the reinforcement of biodeterministic views of gender.

2019, Jamison Green, Rhea Ashley Hoskin, Cris Mayo, sj Miller, Navigating Trans and Complex Gender Identities, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 99:

Transface also has negative consequences for trans actors because it limits their employment opportunities.

2021, Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

The practice of a cisgender person (especially one of the opposite gender) portraying a transgender person in media.


detrans

Clipping of detransition, by surface analysis, de- + trans.

Research on supporting detrans could enable a variety of interventions designed to help detrans people.

2020, Rowan Hildebrand-Chupp, “More than ‘canaries in the gender coal mine’: A transfeminist approach to research on detransition”, in The Sociological Review, volume 68, number 4, page 812:

They [detransitioners] find each other online: on Twitter, where they use the lizard emoji to signal their detrans status, […]

2021, Helen Joyce, Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality, unnumbered page:

The aim of this study is to analyze the specific needs of detransitioners from online detrans communities and discover to what extent they are being met.

2021, Elie Vandenbussche, “Detransition-Related Needs and Support: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey”, in Journal of Homosexuality:

(LGBTQ, informal) Relating to, or having undergone, detransition.


enbyphobia

From enby + -phobia, patterned on homophobia, transphobia, etc.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:enbyphobia.

(neologism) Fear, dislike, or hatred of non-binary people and/or of non-binariness.

embyphobie

Fear, dislike or hatred of non-binary people


cistem

It is this toilet cistem that served to cement the spatially constructed division between man and woman that is still present today.

2017, Nigel Patel, “Violent cistems: Trans experiences of bathroom space”, in Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity, volume 31, number 1, page 52:

I can think of no better role model for a transgender individual, particularly one looking to tackle the "cistem" of health care.

2019, Kyan Lynch, “The Trans Man and the Warrior Women”, in Transgender Health, volume 4, number 1, page 278:

Capital High’s school culture is seemingly accepting to the LGBTQIA+ population, yet it is also one saturated by a white heteropatriarchal cistem, and continued education and activism are required to combat this.

2022, Kenan Omercajic, “'Basement Boys' in the All-Gender Bathroom: Investigating Student-Inspired Trans-Activism and White Cisgenderist Barriers to Supporting Trans Students in School”, in Teacher College Record, volume 124, number 8, page 229:

(LGBTQ, social sciences, neologism) A system or societal structure that privileges cisgender people and marginalizes transgender people.


boy hole

“I don't have a vagina,” he explained, “I have a bonus hole. Other names that don't make me cringe are boy hole and front hole”.

2015, Tiffany Jones, Andrea del Pozo de Bolger, Tinashe Dune, Amy Lykins, Gail Hawkes, Female-to-Male (FtM) Transgender People’s Experiences in Australia: A National Study, Springer, →ISBN, page 112:

(uncommon, informal) The vagina of a trans man.


antigenderism

For this reason, there is also a mounting trend towards talk of 'antigenderism' (On the current shift from antifeminism to 'antigenderism', […])

2016, Brigitte Liebig, Karin Gottschall, Birgit Sauer, Gender Equality in Context: Policies and Practices in Switzerland, Barbara Budrich, →ISBN, page 250:

Historically, the current antigenderism is the latest sociohistorical expression of several waves of antifeminism since the nineteenth century, […]

2020, Heidemarie Winkel, Angelika Poferl, Multiple Gender Cultures, Sociology, and Plural Modernities: Re-reading Social Constructions of Gender across the Globe in a Decolonial Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN:

Opposition to "gender ideology" or "genderism" (a variously-defined catch-all for things like transgender rights, same-sex marriage, and feminism).


MOGAI

Further, many asexuals define their orientation as an important part of their identity, as do many other MOGAI persons.

2021, Worldwide Perspectives on Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals, ABC-CLIO:

Initialism of marginalized orientations, gender alignments, and intersex.


bury your gays

(fandom slang) A fiction trope where gay characters tend to die or generally meet some bad end.


cister

Support all your sisters, not just your cisters!

So let the show begin, black femme cisters, unleash your pinks and let the show begin!

2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Ezili's Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, unnumbered page:

I feel like sometimes, in our need to prove our worth we forget to tell our "cisters" how much they matter to us.

2018, Ariadni Tzounakou, “From Woman to Woman”, in Fliqped Magazine, number 11, page 23:

As I write, I see and hear the many sister (not cister) friends and colleagues and comrades who have been a part of this conversation.

2021, Zillah Eisenstein, Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution, page 21:

(LGBTQ, neologism) A cisgender woman, especially one that is part of a community that includes trans women.


transmed

Interestingly, both transmeds and anti-transmeds use medical discourses to legitimate their claims, despite anti-transmeds claiming to be against the medicalization of trans identities.

2020, Hanna Jacobsen, "Who Counts as Trans?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Tumblr Posts", thesis submitted to the University of Victoria

Someone gave the example of a trans person with many social media followers who is a transmed and said: […]

2020, Taika Augustaitis, "Online Transgender Health Information Seeking:Facilitators, Barriers, and Future Directions", thesis submitted to the University of Michigan School of Information, page 10

They also deserve to have all of this on their own terms, without the legitimacy of their transness being interrogated, over and over, by transmeds and TERFs.

2021, Sasha Carney, “Enid Blyton, Mumsnet, and Transmasculine Childhood”, in Broad Recognition, Yale University, page 40:

A person who believes that medically-diagnosed gender dysphoria or medical transition are essential traits of being transgender.


transbutch

From trans- + butch (“a masculine lesbian”).

In this video, Lee and Hurwitz construct a finely calibrated landscape of a transmasculinity made up of heterosexual FTMs, queer-identified FTMs, gay male FTMs, transfags, and transbutches, although none of these terms is mutually exclusive.

2003, Arturo J. Aldama, Violence and the Body: Race, Gender, and the State, page 290:

Transbutches embody a third space (with others) between the uncritical celebration of “womanhood” and its rejection entirely.

2014, Jen Manion, "Transbutch", Transgender Studies Quarterly, Volume 2, Numbers 1-2, May 2014

I know so many transbutches who remain in the dark and I wanted to let them know it's ok to be themselves.

2020, J. J. Petit, “Shifting the Borders: My Transbutch Herstory”, in The Ignatian, volume 32, page 70:

An AFAB person whose gender identity or gender expression is intermediate between butch and transmasculine.


binegativity

Among the most pertinent findings: explicit binegativity was somewhat prevalent within the sample, overall implicit attitudes reflected a bias toward heterosexuals and against bisexuals, men evidenced greater levels of explicit bi-negativity than women and no support was obtained for a model of cognitive consistency, which aims to articulate the various conditions in which implicit and explicit attitudes are intercorrelated.

2010, Todd G Morrison, Ronan Harrington, Daragh T. McDermott, “Bi Now, Gay Later: Implicit and Explicit Binegativity Among Irish University Students”, in Journal of Bisexuality, volume 10,2010, number 3:

Negativity towards bisexual people; biphobia.


queerantine

en-noun

queerantine (countable and uncountable, plural queerantines)

Or, as another user put it in a post that invited members to a WhatsApp chat: “JOIN US IN QUEERANTINE. Self isolation need not be so lonely.”

2020 March 18, Penelope Green, “‘Join us in queerantine’: a dating app builds a community”, in New York Times (online):

This is my winged eleganza best costume for today! #goforthegold #billyporterfashionchallenge #theebillyporter #diydiva #queerantine #quarantinebutmakeitfashion

2020 March 27, Celia Fernandez, quoting Tony Elder (@forgotten_fabric), “Billy Porter asked fans to recreate his Met Gala look, and they delivered”, in Insider, archived from the original on 2020-06-29:

Olly has been hosting weekly Queerantine parties since March. Having started out via Instagram Live, the Saturday club nights have now transferred over to Zoom.

2020 June 14, Adam Maidment, “Queerantine parties bring Gay Village into living rooms”, in Manchester Evening News, Glasgow, page 10:

The present study aims to address this need through analysing data from the Queerantine study (a portmanteau of queer and quarantine), a web-based survey that assesses how LGBTQ+ adults are experiencing the coronavirus pandemic. In the present paper, we examine extent to which respondents to the Queerantine survey experienced forms of sexuality or gender-based discrimination, including harassment and exclusion, during the coronavirus pandemic.

2021 June 25, Kneale, Dylan, and Laia Bécares, “Discrimination as a predictor of poor mental health among LGBTQ+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: cross-sectional analysis of the online Queerantine study”, in BMJ Open, volume 11, →DOI, page 3:

(humorous) A quarantine experienced by one or more queer (sexually unconventional) people during the COVID-19 pandemic.


gender presentation

gender presentation (usually uncountable, plural gender presentations)

gender expression
gender expression#English

(chiefly LGBTQ) Synonym of gender expression


birth-assigned

For those unacquainted with trans people, it might seem that in the past decade there has been a huge rise in children expressing issues with their birth-assigned gender.

August 24 2021, Shon Faye, “‘I feel like it’s quite shaky acceptance’: trans kids and the fight for inclusion”, in The Guardian:


shitoris

Can you reach my shitoris with your tongue, Chuck?

(slang, LGBTQ) Prostate gland in the context of sexual stimulation.


gaycel

One of the most actively repudiated members of Incel forums are Femcels as well as Incels from the LGBTQ community, commonly referred to as “Gaycels” who are actively met with great hostility, shut out, and blocked from Incel forums.

2019, Farshad Labbaf, “United By Rage, Self-Loathing, And Male Supremacy: The Rise of the Incel Community”, in INvoke: Gender, Colonization, and Violence, volume 5, page 19:

He feels depressed, disconnected from the gay community, and ostracised by his fellow incels, who respond to his nihilistic posts with the argument that ‘gaycels’ are always ‘volcels’ (voluntarily celibate), a rationale which stems from the untrue stereotype that gay guys can always get laid.

2020 February 19, Jake Hall, “Investigating the insidious rise of the gay incel”, in Dazed:

Jewsel does both in the same comment: “Well, you are severe gaycel, or an extreme mentalcel. Just go to therapy and stop being this loli creepy guy and you would escape inceldom easily.”

2020, "Jewsel", quoted in Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 25


pinkpill

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From pink + pill, after the pattern of red pill, and because of the association of pink with femininity.

(incel slang) A notional pill taken by those who have adopted a belief that as unattractive men they would be more attractive as trans women.


Catradora

I'm firmly on team Catradora, I mean, are they blind to each other or something?

2019, Erik Schubach, The Pike: New Beginnings, unnumbered page:

From Charlize Theron kicking *ss in The Old Guard to the final season of She Ra and The Princess^([sic]) of Power finally giving us Catradora.

2020 August, Jamal Grootboom, “Cursed”, in TV Magazine, South Africa, page 19:

While many comparisons have now been made between “Korrasami” and “Catradora,” in light of the critical success of She-Ra's final season and its open depiction of Catra and Adora's love, […]

2021, Lauren Chochinov, “'What's Going On with You Two?': Queerness, Fandom, and Adaptation in The Legend of Korra Franchise”, in Reginald Wiebe, editor, Polyptych: Adaptation, Television, and Comics, page 131:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Catra and Adora (She-Ra) from the animated series She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.


playersexuality

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Multiple posters from the collected content acknowledged that many of the explicitly queer opportunities in the games are actually cases of “playersexuality” (Cole, 2016).

2019, Sam Stockton, "Dating Ga(y)mes: Queer Performance in Farming Simulation Roleplay Games", thesis submitted to the University of Calgary, page 47

It can be argued that explicit representations of bisexuality, pansexuality, and other multiple-gender-attracted people are erased from games that use 'playersexuality' as a mechanic.

2020, Alayna Cole, Dakoda Barker, Games as Texts: A Practical Application of Textual Analysis to Games, unnumbered page:

In some ways, playersexuality simplifies romance for both players and developers; […]

2020, Alexandra M. Lucas, “Innovative Origins, Playersexuality, & Complex Inquisition: The Evolution of Relationship Mechanics in Dragon Age”, in Lindsay D. Grace, editor, Love and Electronic Affection: A Design Primer, page 183:

(video games) The state of an NPC being attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.


(LGBTQ, chiefly Canada) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or sometimes questioning), two-spirited etc..


cyberqueer

Cyberqueer perspectives enable exploration of the relationship between technology and sexuality based on a theoretical paradigm […]

2013, Gillian Youngs, Digital World: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights:

She identifies several types of cyberqueer spaces: chat rooms, websites, and newsgroups with a specific focus on the LGBTQ community, […]

2018, Ricardo E. Zulueta, Queer Art Camp Superstar, page 49:

(LGBTQ) Relating to queer people interacting in cyberspace or on the Internet.


gender reallocation surgery

gender reallocation surgery (plural gender reallocation surgeries)

Oh, yes, Zippy. I run about helter-skelter all the day long accusing people of having gender-reallocation surgery. You sure got my nuber.

2004 November 9, trout, “Son to university”, in 24hoursupport.helpdesk (Usenet), retrieved 2021-09-22:

This contradiction [between biological gender and social gender] can be resolved in various ways […] by gender reallocation surgery; by psycho-therapy, […]

2009, Anthony Synnott, Re-Thinking Men: Heroes, Villains and Victims, published 2016, →ISBN, page 85:

The film’s final act is Einar’s bodily transformation with gender reallocation surgery.

2016 July 30, Navyo, “The Danish Girl”, in Osho News, archived from the original on 2020-12-03:

sex reassignment surgery
sex reassignment surgery#English


eonist

A person who exhibits or engages in eonism.


transfeminicide

transfeminicide (countable and uncountable, plural transfeminicides)

The great number of transfeminicides (assassinations of transgender people) and assassinations of homosexual people are truly alarming.

2019, Ángel F. Méndez Montoya, “¡Sin maricones no hay revoluciones! (Without Queering, There's No Revolutioneering!): Mexico's Queer Subversions of Public Space and the Decolonization of Marriage Heteronormativity”, in Raimundo Barreto, Roberto Sirvent, editors, Decolonial Christianities: Latinx and Latin American Perspectives, page 213:

Saying cuir in Mexico today is to name thousands of murdered and disappeared victims of feminicides and transfeminicides.

2019, Simone Pereira de Sá, “Cartographies of Brazlian popular and 'peripheral' music on YouTube”, in Fernando Resende, Mehita Iqani, editors, Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Current, unnumbered page:

In January 2021, Revista étnica reported that "2020 closed with a total of 60 direct and indirect femicides, of which 17 are considered intimate killings, 6 transfeminicides, and 26 cases that are being investigated or remain without information. […]

2021, Rocío Zambrana, Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico, unnumbered page: