LGBTQA

Using the relatively new term "queer" and the acronym "LGBTQA" (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, allies) was itself a challenge to the established leadership of the community.

2005, Joseph A. Conforti, Creating Portland: history and place in northern New England:

In Chapter 7, we learned that the A in LGBTQA referred to allies—heterosexual individuals who support and identify with, and are accepted by, members of sexual minority groups.

2017, B. Evan Blaine, Kimberly J. McClure Brenchley, Understanding the Psychology of Diversity:

Take, for example, a study conducted in the United States by Riggle, Gonzalez, Rostosky, and Black (2014) which focused on young adults that are identified as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, and allies (LGBTQA).

2017, John C. Carey, Belinda Harris, Sang Min Lee, International Handbook for Policy Research on School-Based Counseling:

Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, and allies.


LGBTTQQIAAP

Although the initialism is constantly expanding and changing ‒ the longest version being LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual) coined in the spring of[…]

2015 November 1, Tim Broadwater, Design, Gamification, and Usability Affecting Social Change for LGBTQIA People, Tim Broadwater, page 4:

In recent years, additional letters have been integrated into this acronym to include those who identify as transsexual (T), queer (Q), questioning (Q), intersex (I), asexual (A), ally (A), and pansexual (P), to produce LGBTTQQIAAP,[…]

2017 April 15, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

Shifting to singular they from he or she may ruffle your grammatical feathers, and you may get lost in the number of letters found in LGBTTQQIAAP (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, and pansexual).

2021 December 13, Hedreich Nichols, Finding Your Blind Spots: Eight Guiding Principles for Overcoming Implicit Bias in Teaching, Solution Tree Press, →ISBN:

... and the initialisms coined to capture any deviation from perceived norms (e.g., LGBTTQQIAAP [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, ally, pansexual]); no wonder we are confused.

2022 May 5, R. John Aitken, The Infertility Trap: Why life choices impact your fertility and why we must act now, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 127:

(rare) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/aromantic, ally, and pansexual.


Miss Thing

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 conceited person, usually a woman or a gay man.


lesbian until graduation

en-noun

lesbian until graduation (plural lesbians until graduation)

(slang, LGBTQ) A woman of high school or college age who is experimenting with or temporarily adopting a lesbian or bisexual identity.


glass closet

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An extension of the metaphor in the closet, referring to the inhabitant's sexuality as visible but still enclosed.

Although I did not come out publicly, people just took me out of the closet or rather I could say that I'm in a glass closet.

2005, Ruth Morgan, Saskia Wieringa, Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-sex Practices in Africa, Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 261:

The glass closet, for those who inhabit it, is a space of containment that comprises the possibility for constraint and the possibility of possibility itself. Moreover, the trope of the glass closet produces the context for the creation and promulgation of the “down low” as a narrative to explain the further demonization of black sexuality, and black masculinity more acutely, in media and public health discourses.

2012, S. McGlotten, D. Davis, Black Genders and Sexualities, Springer, →ISBN, page 14:

In either case, Haynes has officially busted through the glass closet and joined the ranks of openly gay actors.

2016 May 5, E. Alex Jung, “Mazel! Colton Haynes Is Now Officially, Definitely Out of the Closet”, in Vulture:

(LGBTQ) The state of being widely known as having a certain sexual orientation or gender identity without coming out and confirming it.


butch queen

(slang, LGBTQ) A gay male who is neither overtly masculine nor overtly feminine, but displays the mannerisms of both genders.

(slang, LGBTQ) A masculine-looking drag queen.


bi-dyke

Leanne is a bi-dyke living with her dog and cats in Montreal, spending too much time on the computer and too much time at the drawing table illustrating children's books for fun and profit, instead of drawing cartoons for fun and deficit.

2004, Robert Kirby, David L. Kelly, Boy Trouble:

(LGBTQ) A bisexual woman or nonbinary person who prefers female or femme partners to male or masc partners.


bierotic

en-adj

bierotic (comparative more bierotic, superlative most bierotic)

more bierotic (comparative)
most bierotic (superlative)


transnormativity

en-noun

transnormativity (countable and uncountable, plural transnormativities)

From transnormative + -ity or trans- + normativity.

2015, Evan Vipond, Resisting Transnormativity: challenging the medicalization and regulation of trans bodies (Transformative Studies Institute)

Transnormativity is a much clearer concept than homonormativity and approaches class in ways that are solidly materialist. Transnormativity is pressure to look identical to a cis person. This involves body-shaming people who do not want to or are unable to rid their bodies of secondary sex characteristics that socially identify them as the sex they were assigned at birth.

2016, Holly Lewis, The Politics of Everybody: Feminism, Queer Theory, and Marxism at the Intersection, Zed Books Ltd., →ISBN:

For Jenner and many other transpeople, transnormativity is away to escape the societal shame directed toward trans people—a way, at last, to fit in. The problem, then, is that seeking transnormativity does very little to actually address [transphobia].

2017, Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Penguin, →ISBN, page 166:

The assumption that transgender people should, and the pressure on them to, fit a cissexist idea of what is "normal". (Compare pass.)


transnormative

en-adj

transnormative (comparative more transnormative, superlative most transnormative)

more transnormative (comparative)
most transnormative (superlative)

In this metaphor, transnormative subjects “before the law” are likely to be those in the “but for” group, closest to the floor above. A transnormative approach seeks inclusion in existing political and social arrangements, and, like its cognate, “homonormative,” describes a politics in which “'equality' becomes narrow, formal access to a few conservatizing institutions” (Duggan 2003, 65). Aren Z. Aizura describes “transnormative” as an imperative to fade “into the population ...”

2017, Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, Christine Keating, LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 37:

While Spade excoriates the medical establishment as a regulatory system deeply invested in stereotypical binary gender, he also complicates transnormative narratives of transition that are invested in the reification of hegemonic medical constructions of transition as a linear, teleological path (from male to female, or female to male). By transnormative, I mean subjects who, save for their status as trans, are otherwise highly assimilable — gendernormative, heterosexual, middle-class, ...

2017, Cyd Cipolla, Kristina Gupta, David A. Rubin, Angela Willey, Queer Feminist Science Studies: A Reader, University of Washington Press, →ISBN, page 162:

Transnormativity can be loosely defined as the notion that a "successful" trans person is a person who does not appear to be trans. A transnormative person can “pass” in larger society as their preferred gender identity—and is able to do so because he or she so successfully embodies the norms of masculinity or femininity. Yet embodying those norms requires capital—both cultural and monetary. As a result, the “most” transnormative individuals are generally those who are white, able-bodied, and upper-middle-class […]

2017, Anne Helen Petersen, Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman, Penguin, →ISBN, page 165:

Pertaining to, exhibiting, or consistent with transnormativity.


monoamorous

Attested since 1992, from monoamor(y) (which see) + -ous, possibly modelled on polyamorous.

That is, if we were monogamous/monoamorous, she would not have had a chance to explore these feelings without threatening the relationship. Our first few threesomes were very much oriented towards Janice, with less attention given to me (which turns out to be okay; as the saying goes, "I like to watch")[.]

1992 June 10, Jamais A. Cascio=, Bi/Polyamory Blend, alt.polyamory, Usenet

Being exclusively faithful to one partner; monogamous (especially as contrasted with polyamorous).


non-binariness

The quality of being non-binary, of not being binary.


bi now, gay later

A pun on the marketing phrase "buy now, pay later".

One of the most common misconceptions about bisexuality is that it's some kind of stepping-stone on the way to coming out "all the way," as gay and/or lesbian. This pernicious stereotype, sometimes referred to as “bi now, gay later,” is often used to warn straight people away from dating bi folks. […] If “bi now, gay later” is one side of an offensive, disrespectful coin, the LUG (or “lesbian until graduation”) stereotype is its counterpart.

2016, Lindsay King-Miller, Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls, Penguin, →ISBN:

"And I did that usual sort of bi now gay later thing, so I was like I'm bisexual, I'm bisexual, I like women as well. Just to make it more acceptable."

2021, Estella Ferraro, Wilful Blindness: On the Relationship of Identity, Agency and Personal, Springer Nature, page 162, quoting a man named John

(humorous, offensive) A slogan suggesting that bisexual people tend to become exclusively homosexual later in life.


cis privilege

(LGBTQ, neologism) The social advantage enjoyed by those who are cisgender or cissexual.


WLW

Gwendolyn Alden Dean wrote:
>
>No, that would be the Women-Loving-Women Power Rangers, that's a
>different group.
>
Can I be the Green WLW Power Ranger? Who do we morph into?

1996 October 18, Aurienne, Lesbian Avengers (was: Re: About me ...), in soc.women.lesbian-and-bi

Acronym of women-loving woman or women-loving women or similar phrases like woman who loves women: a homosexual or bisexual/pansexual woman.


transmisogynoir

/ˌtɹænz.mɪˈsɑd͡ʒ.ɪˌnwɑɹ/

Blend of transmisogyny + misogynoir, from trans- + misogyny + French noir (“black”); coined on the site Gradient Lair in 2014.

When Black American transgender women contend with these dynamics, they experience transmisogynoir, the interactive product of anti-Blackness, transphobia, and sexism.

2017, Kevin L. Nadal, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:

(neologism) Hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against black trans women.


no promo homo

Other states like Texas, Mississippi and Oklahoma include discussion LGBTQ+ sex but mandate talking about it in a way that stigmatizes their identities through what is often called no promo homo laws.

2022 August 30, “The sex ed most queer students never got”, in Life Kit, spoken by Lili Quiroz, via NPR:

(US) Describing laws approved by various US states that prohibit or limit the discussion of homosexuality and transgender identity in public schools.


trans womyn

From trans woman, with woman respelled womyn (see that entry).

I am a tweener dyke and more butch than femme. I know other trans womyn who are solidly butch, and others who are totally femme, and, of course, the equivalents among straight and bi womyn.

2011, Laurie Penny, Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism (John Hunt Publishing), quoting Marja Erwin

… the officer responsible for the brutal beating of trans womyn Duanna Johnson who was shot and killed in the process of suing the Memphis Police Department has been sent caskets and death threats, corporate pride events have been stormed, …

2016 (originally published 2011), "An Alleyway Tranarchist", Lubing Up The Social War, in Queer Ultraviolence: Bashback! Anthology (Fray Baroque and Tegan Eanelli, eds.)

The internal debate led to some awkward and confusing statements about who counts as womyn, such as, “Trans womyn who identify as womyn-born-womyn are welcome at Michfest.”

2017, Heath Fogg Davis, Beyond Trans: Does Gender Matter?, NYU Press, page 91, quoting a MichFest statement

(rare) Feminist spelling of trans woman and trans women.


lgbt

The Tirangle Project in Cape Town is a community-based project which supports the lgbt community through counselling, education and advocacy.

2005, Performing Queer: Shaping sexualities, 1994-2004, page 29:


QTPOC

Initialism of queer and/or trans person of color.


allosexuality

The condition of being allosexual (in any of its many senses).


multisexuality

For quotations using this term, see Citations:multisexuality.

The quality, state, or practice of being multisexual.


skoliosexuality

Some argue that it legitimizes the fetishization of trans people and undermines the legitimacy of transgender identities. Others, however, argue that the term accurately describes a real orientation and that skoliosexuality no more requires the fetishization of trans people than being a lesbian necessarily involves the fetishization of women.

2017, Don LePan, Laura Buzzard, Maureen Okun, How to Be Good with Words, →ISBN, page 158:


enbian

enbian (comparative more enbian, superlative most enbian)

more enbian (comparative)
most enbian (superlative)

(neologism, of a non-binary person) Preferring mostly or exclusively non-binary people as romantic or sexual partners.

(neologism, of a romantic or sexual act or relationship) Between two people who are non-binary.


enbian

(neologism) A non-binary person who is sexually or romantically attracted to other non-binary people.


intersexualize

en-verb

intersexualize (third-person singular simple present intersexualizes, present participle intersexualizing, simple past and past participle intersexualized)

intersexualizes (present singular third-person)
intersexualizing (participle present)
intersexualized (participle past)
intersexualized (past)

On the other hand, in Ambystoma maculatum, it was reported by Burns ('39) that the effect induced by the administration of the same hormone is retained only to intersexualize the female gonad.

1957, Journal of the Institute of Polytechnics, Osaka City University: Biology:

I argue that this pan-sexual potential which is materially erased in intersexualizing surgery has a homologue in ...

2016, Lena Eckert, Intersexualization: The Clinic and the Colony, →ISBN:

(rare, nonstandard) Synonym of intersex (“to make intersexual, to make intersex”)


polyfamily

Group marriage must be contrasted with polyfamilies, which is similar to group marriage but where some members may not considered themselves married to all other members.

2008, Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen, Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, page 13:

Interestingly, despite the percentages above illustrating that many polyfamilies in the Polyamory Survey had children or wanted children, only approximately 30 percent of survey respondents had told their children about their poly relationships or their desire to be in one...

2010, Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 172:

A group of people in a polyamorous relationship, who consider each other as family.


folx

Variant of folks. While the word was already gender-neutral, the suffix -x is a deliberate social signal of awareness of sexual minorities. Compare English Latinx.

I presume yoᵣ lo. will fynde to be very stronge besides the qualitie of the peticonars to be lookte vppon, whoe if they be noe other then as folx [also fox] is stilde mear mariners, it cannot promise muche of their extraordinarie performancis, as hath bin made appeare formerlye in this perticuler designe, [...]

G. T. C[lark], R. O. J. (1862 July 29) “Some Account of the Parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Lythan (continued)”, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, number xxxi, London, page 192

De kommitte told me dere wus a great gedderin ob de culored folx at Brudder Jonson's Eatin House, [...]

1857, Julius Caesar Hannibal, Black Diamonds, Or, Humor, Satire, and Sentiment, page 183:

If some do, da hypocrites, and dat don't militate 'gains de siety; for cause da some hypocrites, dat proves dat some good folx.

1879, M. Star, in The American Temperance Cyclopaedia of History (Joseph Beaumont Wakeley), page 185, ostensibly quoting one Missa Param

Eye dialect spelling of folks, representing African-American Vernacular English.


front hole

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"Do you put your penis into your partner's vagina, [or] rectum?" Or even, "Do you use the front hole or the back hole?" If you ask these questions without using body language or intimidating vocal mannerisms that betray discomfort and negative attitudes, you can get a lot of […]

1989, Larry Siegel, Milan Korcok, AIDS, the Drug and Alcohol Connection: What Health Care ..., page 58:

A.C. stated that she had not been touched by anyone in her "back hole," though she had been touched by Donald in her "front hole."

2000-2003, People of the State of Illinois v. Cookson, page 14

Front-Hole Penetration
Those of us who were assigned female at birth usually have a front hole, unless we have chosen to have it surgically removed via vaginectomy. Many of us have complicated feelings about using our front holes […]

2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 384:

“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:

(euphemistic, uncommon) The vagina (now sometimes especially of a trans man).


cock in a frock

en-noun

cock in a frock (plural cocks in frocks)

From the 1994 movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Chosen for the rhyme. See cock (“penis”).

(vulgar, slang, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman.


gender confirmation surgery

gender confirmation surgery (countable and uncountable, plural gender confirmation surgeries)

gender-affirming surgery
gender-affirming surgery#English


Princeton rub

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...but the clean young things digging it all as their birthright may rub off on you. (You know, Uncle, the Princeton Rub?)

1971, John Francis Hunter, The Gay Insider:

I have enjoyed both serial and mutual, simultaneous fellatio, anal intercourse, mutual masturbation, even, at times, the 'Princeton Rub.'

1982, Barry Gifford, Landscape with traveler: the pillow book of Francis Reeves, →ISBN, page 47:

BOOM BOOM: (To CEIL, referring to SIDNEY) What did the closet queen say? CEIL: Something about the Princeton rub.

1983, Doric Wilson, Doric Wilson's Street Theater, →ISBN:

(sexuality, LGBTQ) Sexual stimulation from rubbing one's penis against another man; homosexual frottage.


gender fluidity

[…] Two of the novels – The Water Cure by Sophie Mackintosh and Normal People by Sally Rooney – have gender and abuse included in their themes, while Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under explores gender roles and gender fluidity.

2018 August 20, Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, “Young women are smashing it at Edinburgh as the #MeToo legacy kicks”, in The Guardian:

“I now dress completely for fun,” said Mr. Dunlap, who identifies as a queer man and who serves as an actual poster boy for gender fluidity as part of this year’s Levi’s “All Pronouns All Love” Pride campaign.

2021 June 9, Guy Trebay, “The Boys in Their Summer Dresses”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(LGBTQ) The quality of being genderfluid.


compersive

—which (according to Lovelock's predictions) could be as little as just Antarctica—we will have to be very symbiotic and compersive indeed.

2010, Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, Gaia and the New Politics of Love: Notes for a Poly Planet, →ISBN:

Whether poly people as a whole have achieved the intended compersive intimacy is debatable, [...]

2015, Jillian Deri, Love's Refraction: Jealousy and Compersion in Queer Women's Polyamorous Relationships, →ISBN:

It's one thing, people say, to be compersive about a colleague's success, but it's quite another to feel happy about your partner being intimate with someone other than you. Yet, it is possible to cultivate compersion in any social situation, [...]


ROGD

Anti-trans campaigners call this 'Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria' (ROGD) but there is no such phenomenon listed in clinical research. The only evidence for ROGD has come from a poorly designed study (Littman 2018) that has been criticised by its own university […]

2019, Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 51:

Michael Bailey and Ray Blanchard have expressed some preliminary thoughts based on interviews with mothers of ROGD children and clinicians […]

2020, Charles Murray, Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class, Twelve, →ISBN:

rapid-onset gender dysphoria
rapid-onset gender dysphoria#English

(gender-critical feminism, pseudoscience) Initialism of rapid-onset gender dysphoria.


unclockable

en-adj

unclockable (comparative more unclockable, superlative most unclockable)

more unclockable (comparative)
most unclockable (superlative)

With these protracted and unclockable events, a moment or date may be given when the goal has certainly not yet been reached, and another when it certainly has ; but it is impossible to come any closer to an exact moment within that period.

Brother Anancy, like most just-arrive grabalicious samfie-man, drinking more than one spider fair share of whites, and people seeing him as he spangle staggering round the village at all sort of unclockable hours.

1973, Andrew Salkey, Anancy's Score, page 55:

For unclockable hours I plead Sloughing my heat for the elm's gilded leaves.

1976, Aspen Anthology - Issues 1-4, page xxi:

Elders en nergens elders, forever arriving, forever saying vaarwel, the nether we posit there, the coast of a landfall with unfamiliar light, with time unclockable and space uncertain and walled.

1982, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!: six stories, page 236:

At a time that cannot be measured or identified.


enbyfriend

From enby + friend, modeled after girlfriend and boyfriend.

She felt a surge of hope, of warmth, that her beautiful enbyfriend could still pull this off, even compromised by Cryos.

2017, Irene Wendy Wode, How to Train Your Mafia, page 62:

While many of the interviewees mentioned having a boyfriend, girlfriend, or enbyfriend (nonbinary significant other), we heard over and over again that romantic relationships had to be approached with caution, given their potential to interfere with life and work.

2021, Roberta Katz, Sarah Ogilvie, Jane Shaw, Gen Z, Explained: The Art of Living in a Digital Age, page 138:

A person who's on good terms with their exes is probably a better human being and a better potential boyfriend/girlfriend/enbyfriend than someone who hates all their exes.

2021, Dan Savage, Savage Love from A to Z: Advice on Sex and Relationships, Dating and Mating, Exes and Extras, page 139:

(slang, neologism) A non-binary partner in an unmarried romantic relationship.


homocapitalism

A blend of homosexual + capitalism or an affixation of homo- + capitalism.

Capitalist appropriation and assimilation of sexual diversity, especially pertaining to the gay, cisgender, western, white, and upper middle class men.

gaipitalisme

capitalist appropriation and assimilation of sexual diversity


LGBTQQIAAPP

(uncommon) Initialism of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual/agender, allied, pansexual and polyamorous/polysexual.


sexual inversion

Congenital sexual inversion—that is to say, sexual instinct turned by inborn constitutional abnormality toward persons of the same sex—is a comparatively rare phenomenon, so far as our knowledge at present extends.

1901, Henry Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion (Studies in the Psychology of Sex), Philadelphia: F. A. Davies, page 1:

(dated) Homosexuality, as regarded by a theory of the late 19th and early 20th century that saw it as an inborn reversal of gender traits.


homopatriarchy

Social subsystem in which cisgender homosexual men predominate over other LGBTI people.

homopatriarcat

dominance of homosexual males over other LGBTI people.


trans-identified male

Louise and her trans-identified male partner were considering having a baby together. Louise could not bear a child but her partner, who had not yet started transitioning, could […]

2010, Tam Sanger, Trans People’s Partnerships: Towards an Ethics of Intimacy, Springer, →ISBN, page 53:

I began taking testosterone last June […] I attended Transitions, a university-sponsored trans support group, and this year served as the first trans-identified male cochair of my university's LGBTIQQA student group, Open Doors.

I had been considering several different groups for my thesis project, and at first had resisted writing about the trans-identified male community.

2010, A. Carter Sickels, What does masculinity mean to you: trans males creating identities of possibilities


trans-identified male

en-noun

trans-identified male (plural trans-identified males)

Abstract: This thesis addresses the multiple ways that trans-identified males experience gender, masculinity, and identity. In this ethnographic project, seven trans-identified males living in the Triangle of North Carolina speak about their daily experiences and share their personal narratives to reveal diverse masculine identities.


abrosexual

From Ancient Greek ἁβρός (habrós, “graceful”) + -sexual.

der

For quotations using this term, see Citations:abrosexual.

(rare) Having a changing or fluid sexual orientation, one that changes over time.


androgen insensitivity syndrome

en-noun

androgen insensitivity syndrome (uncountable)

(pathology) A condition where an individual is unresponsive to male hormones. For persons with male gonads, this is associated with higher grades on the Quigley scale.

complete androgen insensitivity syndrome


pride parade

An annual parade, held in communities in many parts of the world, celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex pride and culture and the acceptance of people belonging to sexual minorities.


gaycist

en-adj

gaycist (comparative more gaycist, superlative most gaycist)

more gaycist (comparative)
most gaycist (superlative)


gender minority

en-noun

gender minority (countable and uncountable, plural gender minorities)

In addition, the process of coming out as a gender minority may or may not be related to sexual orientation, and the concept may have vastly different meanings and applications in the gender minority (GM) community.

2016, Matthew D. Skinta, Aisling Curtin, Mindfulness and Acceptance for Gender and Sexual Minorities, New Harbinger Publications, →ISBN:

There are different types of surgeries that may be specific to the surgeon performing the surgery or related to the size of a gender minority person's chest. A double incision procedure with nipple grafts is the most common procedure ...

2017, K. Bryant Smalley, Jacob C. Warren, K. Nikki Barefoot, LGBT Health: Meeting the Needs of Gender and Sexual Minorities, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 258:

A person who is not a binary cisgender person (i.e. a transgender or non-binary person), or these people collectively. (Also used attributively.)

性別少數群體

person who are not binary cisgender person(s)


neopronoun

Only—Ashraf didn't know any Italian neopronouns. He'd left Italy when he was barely out himself, and far too upset and raw to mix with other trans people. He'd never met an Italian speaker who used neutral or neopronouns, […]

2018, Matthew J. Metzger, Life Underwater, NineStar Press, LLC, →ISBN:

However, neopronouns also come with a disadvantage: they unavoidably stand out whenever they're used because relatively few people have ever heard these words before.

2018, Lee Airton, Gender: Your Guide: A Gender-Friendly Primer on What to Know, What to Say, and What to Do in the New Gender Culture, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 103:

NEOPRONOUNS — “New” pronouns, as opposed to the more traditional he/him, she/her, and they/them. In this book I've included several neopronouns in the entry on PRONOUNS, but that list is not exhaustive. […]

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 184:

A pronoun used in place of he, she, or singular they, especially one of the modern coinages used by some non-binary people.

néopronom

pronoun used in place of he, she, or they


zirs

What about just a context of events, like "A___ is rich and has just fallen off zir horse. B____ is poor and is still mounted on zirs.

2003 August 22, R. L., “Experiment (was: A problem example, female written males...(long))”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet):

(rare, nonstandard) That which belongs to zir, the possessive case of ze.


trancestor

page 59: Lewis Reay coins the term 'trancestors' in a 2009 essay identifying (like Kolakowski) eunuchs as the biblical forerunners of today's transgender people, [...]. Of course, part of this may be pragmatic: if much of the existing work finding 'trancestors' in biblical texts has happened in a volume called The Queer Bible Commentary, then those seeking such figures will probably engage with it whether or not they consider transsexualism and transgender people to be socially queer phenomena.
page 120: This reclaiming of queer ancestors/trancestors (see below) has proven important for Wilson and others, with its assertion that homosexual people have existed at all points and times in history.

2011, Susannah Cornwall, Controversies in Queer Theology, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd, →ISBN:

Fortunately, because I did get a kick out of him, he liked me and would come over and share stories about working with Jackie Curtis, who is a personal hero of mine, and show me pictures of my trancestors in their youthful glory, when their courage, outrageousness, and heavy drug usage paved the way [...]

2014, Amy Scholder, Icon, The Feminist Press at CUNY, →ISBN:

Invoke your Trancestors of blood. Speak aloud, something like:
"Oh sweet, well and loving ones of my blood,
You who transcended the bounds of gender during your life,"

2018, Lee Harrington, Tai Fenix Kulystin, Queer Magic: Power Beyond Boundaries, Mystic Productions Press, →ISBN:

(rare) A forebear or forerunner to a trans person, or to modern transgender people in general.


Xicanx

From Xicano. The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o..

-a-o-x

(neologism) Chicano or Chicana (and of any gender).


Xicanx

(neologism) A Chicano or Chicana (of any gender).


pink money

The business generated by providing goods and services to the homosexual community.


polycule

Blend of polyamory + molecule. Coined around the 2010s.

Our polycule doubled in size when my spouse started seeing Boris, whose husband has six other partners.

The five of us started calling ourselves a "polycule" back in the fall of 2012, when our relationships and sexual lives were so thoroughly entangled with one another that we looked like several relationship atoms often sharing orbits together.

2015, Julie Fennell, “Polyculous bonds”, in Elisabeth Sheff, editor, Stories from the polycule: Real life in polyamorous families, Portland, OR: Thorntree Press, →ISBN:

While nonmonogamy doesn't always mean having multiple partners, Ezra's polycule comprises multiple sexual partners.

2018 November 16, Josephine Yurcaba, “Ezra Miller Discussed Polyamory and Past Abuse”, in Teen Vogue, archived from the original on 2019-05-28:

Unbeknownst to him, Janice had, some three weeks prior, broken up with one of her partners from a polycule in Colorado.

2018, T. J. Thomson, “The Evolution of Story: How Time and Modality Affect Visual and Verbal Narratives Quarterly”, in Visual Communication, volume 25, number 4, →DOI, page 204:

The duo and eight others comprising the financial whiz’s inner circle shared a tony penthouse in the Bahamas, a living arrangement that some, including tech mogul Elon Musk, reportedly described as a “polycule”– that is, “a connected network of people and relationships, all of whom are in some way involved emotionally, sexually, or romantically with at least one other person”.

[2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Sarah is more reserved, especially when it comes to sharing details about “tender” situations, and she’s also protective of the other members of her polycule. What one part of the polycule says about another could have huge, messy ripple effects throughout the whole group.

2024 January 16, Allison P. Davis, “What Does a Polycule Actually Look Like?”, in New York Magazine:

But among all the throuples, polycules and nesting partners, there exists another category of polyamory that still throws many for a loop: solo polyamory, or having concurrent intimate relationships while maintaining independence.

2024 August 2, Gina Cherelus, “You’re ‘Solo Poly’? So … You’re Single?”, in The New York Times:

A polyamorous group of indivuals connected by their overlapping romantic, sexual, or platonic relationships.


liberal homophobia

The intellectual Daniel Borrillo refers to liberal homophobia as that which accepts homosexuality so long as it is not discussed. This type of homophobia is represented in phrases like, 'I don't care what anyone does in private so long as they don't tell me about it'. In the professional world, this is crystallized in the recently abolished slogan of the US army: 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'.

2012, Margarita Alonso, Best Inclusion Practices: LGBT Diversity, Routledge:

After the deadly shooting attack at Barnoar, liberal homophobia surfaced along with support for the community. It took the form of a debate over coming out of the closet and "outing". Many people said that a person's sexual orientation was his own private business, and spoke out against the expectation that well-known people would come out of the closet. The debate ignored the fact that society considers only one sexual orientation a private matter. Heterosexuality is always public, and may always be talked about.

2013 June, Aeyal Gross, “Israel's liberal homophobia”, in ILGA:

To fully understand “liberal homophobia”, we must consider the centrality of the private/public distinction in liberalism along with the correlation of homosexuality/heterosexuality to this divide.

2015, Aeyal Gross, “The Politics of LGBT Rights in Israel and Beyond: Nationality, Normativity, and Queer Politics”, in Columbia Human Rights Law Review:

Another type of men’s group, or trend in critical thought on men, is often forgotten in our typologies: the “gay groups” along with their commercial and association networks. Their omission highlights the heterocentrism on the part of men studies, which can only deconstruct masculinity in its heterosexual expression. A common current form of liberal homophobia is demonstrated in accepting this sphere, even mentioning the GLBT movement, but eventually not granting gays the status of men that would enable us to include them in our deconstruction of hegemonic masculinity.

2017 January, Daniel Welzer-Lang, “Epistemology of Critical Studies on Men and Masculinity”, in Men’s Studies Press:

Acceptance of homosexuality as long as it remains a private issue.


LBT

The Office of LGBT Affairs at UM asked women students what it means to be LBT. Several shared feelings of difference, [...] Being a lesbian isn't a visible sign of difference, and I can choose to “just blend in.” [...]

2000, Bonnie Zimmerman, Lesbian Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 738:

Objectives: Using a participatory approach, our objectives were to understand community perspectives on domestic violence (DV) in lesbian, bisexual and trans (LBT) communities, [...]

2013, Jay Harcourt, Current Issues in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health, Routledge, →ISBN, page 160:


drag artist

(LGBTQ) A person who wears drag, typically for public performance.


TERFy

en-adj

TERFy (comparative TERFier, superlative TERFiest)

TERFier (comparative)
TERFiest (superlative)

Usually when I jump into the conversation it’s me defending trans* women against cis women who are acting a little bit TERF-y […]

2016, "Peter", quoted in T. J. Jourian, "'My Masculinity Is a Little Love Poem to Myself': Trans*masculine College Students’ Conceptualizations of Masculinities", dissertation submitted to Loyola University, page 238

I assumed they were straight and cis, because otherwise they would have known about TERFy women’s lands or at least about the drama of Michfest.

2018 October 18, Tori Truscheit, “The Rage of All Women”, in Slate:

After years of being shamed for their bodies, is celebrating their monthly moons and the power of their uterus inherently TERF-y?

2020, Quinn McGlade-Ferentzy, "Heterosexist Suspicion of a Queer Outsider", thesis submitted to the University of Guelph, page 46

(informal, neologism) Resembling, characteristic of, or related to trans-exclusionary feminism or those who hold such views.


TERFdom

Only do one better than Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—whose speech was sampled for that song and who was called out for TERFdom and transphobia—and move that logic beyond the sexes.

2018 July 10, Alex Zaragoza, “No time for TERFdom”, in San Diego City BEAT, page 8:

One of the things that snapped me out of it finally was a video by Natalie Wynn, aka [Youtuber] ContraPoints, titled “Gender Critical”, and she concludes that TERFdom is about the flimsiest cloak of feminist platitudes draped over disgust and hate.

2019, Philip Matthews, quoted in Tess Nichol, "TERF wars: Adopting - then abandoning - a 'cult-like' movement", Metro (Auckland), 7 November 2019

For a large number of us trans folk, Rowling's descent into the bowels of TERFdom has been distressing to watch.

2020 January, Anna Piper Scott, “JK Rowling Comes Out... As Transphobic”, in Melbourne Star Observer, page 17:

(neologism) The state or quality of holding trans-exclusionary feminist views.


SOCE

The suggestion that evangelical “ex-gay” ministries like Exodus have anything to do with health or happiness invites ... and secular LGBT-affirmative groups often characterize SOCE as a ploy of the political right to grant anti-gay agendas a ...

2013, John Fletcher, Preaching to Convert: Evangelical Outreach and Performance Activism in a Secular Age, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 263:

They apply to semiprofessional and professional practitioners who call themselves variously reparative therapists, SOCE (“sexual orientation change efforts”) therapists, ex-gay therapists, or conversion therapists, all who have one thing in ...

2014, Martin Kantor MD, Why a Gay Person Can't Be Made Un-Gay: The Truth About Reparative Therapies, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN:

However, therapists were hearing more and more horror stories about SOCE therapy from their clients.

2018, Chuck Stewart, Documents of the LGBT Movement, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN:

sexual orientation change efforts#English

(LGBTQ, pseudoscience) Initialism of sexual orientation change efforts.


clockable

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[…] Walking down the street as a clockable trans woman for the first year of my transition didn't help […]

2017, Charlie Craggs, To My Trans Sisters, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 157:

Many if not most of us strive for “it” but few trans women ever get to 100 percent passability. In my experience, there's usually something about us that makes us clockable on closer inspection. For trans women, this is often our voices.

2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 44:

As Aren Aizura asserts, “being a somebody means visibility: becoming a population, becoming a demographic, becoming (part of) a class, becoming clockable.”

2019, Mia Fletcher, Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, page 14:

(transgender slang) Of a transgender person or drag performer: able to be clocked; capable of being noticed or recognized as transgender; not passing.


gender euphoria

Even though he wasn't out as trans* to anyone yet, he felt a rush of gender euphoria when the waiter called him "sir."

The profound feeling of joy and comfort that some transgender people and others feel when their internal gender identity aligns with their external gender presentation.


metamale

(biology) Synonym of supermale (“male with XYY syndrome”)


TIF

When applied to trans men, perhaps influenced by the name Tiff.

trans-identified female
trans-identified female#English

(derogatory, offensive) Initialism of trans-identified female.


transmedicalism

The belief that medically diagnosed gender dysphoria or medical transition are essential traits of being transgender.


demigender

Demigender can be a subset of bigender of multigender, but does not have to be. [...] A demigender person may identify as demifluid or demiflux; this indicates that a part of one's identity remains stable while the other part or parts are fluid.

2016, Stephanie Brill, The Transgender Teen, →ISBN, page 359:

Demigender people often identify as non-binary.

2018, Michael Beattie, Counselling Skills for Working with Gender Diversity and Identity, →ISBN, page 267:

Examples of demigender identities include demigirl, demiboy, and demiandrogyne.

2019, Genny Beemyn, Trans People in Higher Education, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 297:

(rare) Identifying partially or mostly with one gender and at the same time with another gender.


transmedicalist

For quotations using this term, see Citations:transmedicalist.

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


transmedicalist

transmedicalist (comparative more transmedicalist, superlative most transmedicalist)

more transmedicalist (comparative)
most transmedicalist (superlative)

Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to transmedicalism.


neurogender

neurogender (comparative more neurogender, superlative most neurogender)

more neurogender (comparative)
most neurogender (superlative)

If you know someone else who is neurogender, or another gender you've never heard of, or simply autistic plus trans of any kind, believe them when they tell you who they are.

2020, endever corbin, “I'm trans and autistic, and yes (for me), they're related”, in Maxfield Sparrow, editor, Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words, page 86:

Neurogender and autigender people are often met with anger and prejudice, even by some T/GE people who view such new forms of gender identification as threatening to trans respectability.

2022, Sarah Cavar, Alexandre Baril, “Disability”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource by and for Transgender Communities, page 85:

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


demiboy

Polk also identifies as a genderqueer demiboy and uses the pronouns ze/hir (in place of he or she one would use “ze” and in place of him or her one would use “hir”).

2015, Kerri McNair, "A Broader Definition of Gender", InfUSion (University of Georgia), Volume 12, Issue 2, Spring 2015, page 52

“A member of our family is a Demiboy,” I murmur.

2017, Live Love Laugh Ranting, Come As Yourself: Volume One, →ISBN, page 62:

Jinokimijin had chosen an androgynous male form tonight: not a demiboy, which would typically blend neuter with male, but a femboy, a masculine shape with some feminine elements.

2017, L. Rowyn, The Sun Etherium: An Etherium Novel, #2, →ISBN, page 139:

(neologism) A person who identifies as partially, but not completely, male.


gender critical

en-noun

gender critical (plural gender criticals)

Word on the street is gender criticals have started using "male to trans" and "female to trans" to describe trans people...

2014 October 29, Danny Birb (@transvulcan), Twitter:

That Sedgwick's case for foundationalist gayness incorporates both the arguments and the premises avowed by Stock and the other gender criticals would likely unnerve everyone except for Reed.

2023, Grace Lavery, “The Egg and the Essay”, in Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 128:

(informal) A person who holds gender-critical beliefs.


transidentity

From trans- + identity or trans + identity.

[Joanne; male → transgender (i.e.neither male nor female) or genderqueer; 44; preoperative]
Joanne's decision to come out publicly shows that ze transformed from not accepting hir transidentity to embracing and affirming it.

2012, H. Chiang, Transgender China, Springer, →ISBN:

Her transidentity, which bridged the established dichotomy between gender identity and anatomical sex, was the result of her choice to undergo a de-construction/re-construction process of her body: new breasts, hips and thighs, hair loss, beard removal […]

2017, Paul Baker, Giuseppe Balirano, Queering Masculinities in Language and Culture, page 181:

(rare) Transness; the state of being trans, of having a gender identity which is different from the sex one was assigned at birth (i.e. having a transgender identity).


birth sex

birth sex (countable and uncountable, plural birth sexes)

The sex that someone was assigned at birth (or before via prenatal sex discernment), which may differ, as in cases of intersexuality, from their current sex assignment.


circuit party

(LGBTQ) A large dance event closely associated with LGBT culture, often extending through the night into the following day, usually with a number of affiliated events in the days leading up to and following the main event.


Filipinx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o of Filipina and Filipino, which are from Spanish filipina and Spanish filipino, both from Spanish Filipinas (“Philippines”), from Felipe II de España (“Philip II of Spain”), from Felipe (“Philip”).

-a-o-x

(US, neologism) A Filipina or Filipino (of any gender).


gender-critical

en-adj

gender-critical (comparative more gender-critical, superlative most gender-critical)

more gender-critical (comparative)
most gender-critical (superlative)

[…] in order to understand the nature of gender in society and the domination of men in most forms of social life, one needs to take a gender-critical perspective of both men and women and the interrelations between them (Evans, 1988); and, in order to bring about any enduring gender equity, men and women need, separately and collectively, to reach a gender-critical understanding and make the changes to their lives accordingly.

1995, Terry Evans, “Under Cover of Night: (Re)Gendering Mathematics and Science Education”, in Lesley H. Parker, Léonie J. Rennie, Barry J. Fraser, editors, Gender, Science and Mathematics: Shortening the Shadow, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 71:

A decade or more later, it is instructive to consider the status of both feminist and gender-critical approaches to the study of religion. As I have argued elsewhere, despite the ubiquity of gendering as a cultural practice, its significance within religion systems, and its foundational role in shaping human possibility and opportunity, gender has not been widely adopted as an essential analytical category by scholars of religion.

2004, Randi R. Warne, “New Approaches to the Study of Religion in North America”, in Peter Antes, Armin W. Geertz, Randi R. Warne, editors, New Approaches to the Study of Religion, volume 1, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 28:

Gender-critical exploration of biblical literature remains a relatively new enterprise. Building on and encompassing the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century feminist scholarship and more recent queer studies, biblically focused gender studies seeks to advance the scholarly conversation by systematically exploring the ways in which gender is constructed in the diverse texts, cultures, and readers that constitute “the world of the Bible.”

2014, Julia M. O'Brien, “Preface”, in Julia M. O'Brien, editor, Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xiii:

Critically examining the role of gender in a text, a person’s experiences, etc.

As a gender critical feminist and an attorney, I have been analyzing the legal and medical conflation of gender with sex for years.

2013 August 2, Elizabeth Hungerford, “Sex Is Not Gender”, in CounterPunch, retrieved 2022-12-06:

I don’t believe that all, or even most, ‘gender-critical’ editorials genuinely set out to make our lives harder: more that their writers don’t realise the impact they can have in the structure outlined above.

2014 August 6, Juliet Jacques, “On the ‘Dispute’ Between Radical Feminism and Trans People”, in New Statesmen, London, retrieved 2022-12-06:

This sort of mistreatment reflects the ideologies of trans-exclusionary radical feminism, popular amongst certain gender-critical lesbian groups.

2016 June 29, Polly Anna Rocha, “Pride & Prejudice”, in San Antonio Current, San Antonio, Texas: Euclid Media Group, retrieved 2022-12-06, page 32:

Selina Todd, professor of modern history at Oxford University, agrees. Recently one delegate cancelled their place at a humanities conference she was due to speak at when they saw her name on the agenda. “It was because the person was concerned that ‘transphobic’ views would be expressed. I assume that this referred to my gender-critical stance.”

2018 October 30, Anna Fazackerley, “UK Universities Struggle to Deal with ‘Toxic’ Trans Rights Row”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 2022-12-06:

Maya Forstater, a former researcher and writer for a thinktank, is likely to appeal against a ruling that her gender-critical feminist beliefs could not be protected, Chilton suggested.

2020 January 3, Damien Gayle, “After Tribunal’s Ethical Veganism Ruling, What Is a Protected Belief?”, in The Guardian, London, retrieved 2022-12-06:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

(originally UK, neologism) Espousing, characteristic of, or relating to gender-critical feminism.


acephobic

acephobic (comparative more acephobic, superlative most acephobic)

more acephobic (comparative)
most acephobic (superlative)

“Cold” and “emotionless” are simply acephobic and ignorant.

2015 July 5, George Norman, “Reclaiming celibacy”, in The Yorker, University of York, page 16:

The relationship between these two parts of me is underpinned by homophobic and acephobic assumptions.

2017 February 3, “Plus”, in Varsity, page 18:

Even those in the LGBTQ+ community can be acephobic.

2019, Samantha Billingsly, “The Gray Area: Another ignored minority”, in Sonoma State Star, 29 January - 4 February 2019, page 3:

(neologism) Characteristic of or exhibiting acephobia.


playersexual

playersexual (comparative more playersexual, superlative most playersexual)

more playersexual (comparative)
most playersexual (superlative)

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All of the marriageable characters in farming simulator Stardew Valley are "playersexual", meaning they will marry the player regardless of gender.

2016 December 29, Gita Jackson, “2016 Was A Great Year For 'Shipping Our Favourite Characters”, in Kotaku Australia:

The fact that 65 characters can be interested in a same-sex relationship within Skyrim but only with the player is indicative of the fact that these characters are not bisexual, pansexual, or some other form of plurisexual—they are playersexual.

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

DA2 provides a notable contrast with both Origins and Inquisition in that all non-DLC romanceable characters are “playersexual”; […]

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, of an NPC) Attracted to the player character, especially without regard to gender, race, etc.


transantagonism

(rare) Hostility toward transgender people.


transantagonistic

transantagonistic (comparative more transantagonistic, superlative most transantagonistic)

more transantagonistic (comparative)
most transantagonistic (superlative)

The press has often been accused of using offensive phrases and terminology when discussing trans people, including the misuse of pronouns, continuous 'deadnaming' – referring to a trans person's previous name – as well as giving a platform to transantagonistic people.

2014 August 13, “The 'transgender tipping point': how and why attitudes are changing”, in The Week UK:


cissplain

en-verb

cissplain (third-person singular simple present cissplains, present participle cissplaining, simple past and past participle cissplained)

cissplains (present singular third-person)
cissplaining (participle present)
cissplained (participle past)
cissplained (past)

Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be.

2012, Natalie Reed, "How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, "Among the New Words", American Speech, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2014), page 480

(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding.


transmisandry

From trans- + misandry, modeled on the earlier transmisogyny.

Coordinate term: transmisogyny

A Black trans-of-color critique shows that we need theories not only for thinking about how trans women of color navigate but also for racialized transmisandry, to explain the ways in which Black trans masculine persons live in a sphere of literal and discursive policing […]

2017, E. C. Krell, “Is transmisogyny killing trans women of color? Black trans feminisms and the exigencies of white femininity”, in Transgender Studies Quarterly:

Transmisogyny and transmisandry are asymmetrical types of violence. Any claim of transmisandry which is used to vilify trans women and other assigned male at birth trans people should be heavily interrogated if not simply dismissed outright.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 277:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Hatred of or contempt for trans men.


trans broken arm syndrome

There’s this thing called 'trans broken arm,' right? You know, where someone might come into the doctor with a broken arm and if you’re cis or not presenting in a way that’s confusing for people, it’s a broken arm, but if you’re presenting as trans. there’s this whole other layer of, ‘Okay, so did you get the broken arm because you’re trans?’ I know that’s kind of a ridiculous statement, but there are layers that go on top of that [identity] that…you have to navigate. (Bailey).

2016, Douglas Knutson, Julie M. Koch, Tori Arthur, T. Andrew Mitchell, and Meredith A. Martyr, "Trans broken arm": Health care stories from transgender people in rural areas, page 31:

Trans Broken Arm Syndrome appears to be most common among mental health service providers, many of whom appear to regard trans people's mental health as relevant only in terms of or in relation to transition.

2018, Ruth Pearce, Understanding Trans Health: Discourse, Power and Possibility, page 111:

It would also reduce the incidence of 'trans broken arm syndrome', where doctors attribute every ailment we have to our transition, even completely unrelated things like the flu or a broken limb.

2019, Eris Young, They/Them/Their: A Guide to Nonbinary and Genderqueer Identities, page 217:

Additionally, transgender patients navigate "trans broken arm syndrome" in medical appointments, wherein providers casually misattribute unrelated medical problems to their gender identity or aspects of their transition.

2021, Dagoberto Heredia Jr., Tyson L. Pankey, Cesar A. Gonzalez, “LGBTQ-Affirmative Behavioral Health Services in Primary Care”, in Jessica Lapinski, Kristine Diaz, editors, LGBTQ+Health: An Issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, unnumbered page:

gender confirmation surgery
gender confirmation surgery

(LGBTQ, informal) The tendency of medical providers to center transness when caring for transgender patients, typically by connecting unrelated medical conditions or symptoms to the transition process, or asking for medical information (e.g. gender confirmation surgery status) that is not relevant to the patient's complaint.


transmasc

en-adj

transmasc (comparative more transmasc, superlative most transmasc)

more transmasc (comparative)
most transmasc (superlative)

[...] the convention of masculinity through being an “alt” transmasc person (I was always explicitly non-binary) actually amounted to posturing, and ultimately allowed for more or less the same oppressions to be reinscribed, if only because I was uncritical about my position as a white [...] transmasc person.

2017, John Bloomberg-Rissman, In the House of the Hangman - Volume 8, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 4905:

[A] binder is a compression garment for your chest to flatten the chest. It's for other nonbinary or transmasc folks [...]

2018, KL Reddy-Best, D Goodin, “QueerCrip fashion in the twenty-first century: Sky Cubacub and the QueerCrip Dress Reform Movement”, in Clothing Cultures:

Quinn Eades is a queer transmasc writer and poet. Jamie & Quinn are in love. The images and poetry are from their forthcoming book, Queerdom.

2019, Tiffany Jones, Bent Street 2: Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas - 2018/2019, Clouds of Magellan, →ISBN:


transmasc

[They say things like] “I'm attracted to all genders, especially androgynous people,” or, “I am primarily interested in other transmascs.”

2016, Sara Woods, Identifying as Transgender, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 32:

And Literally No One treated me like shit when I identified as transmasc (I s2g, white transmascs seem to act victimized more than they materially are, and that's so much a part of the problem); [...]

(LGBTQ) A transmasculine person, a trans man or another person who was assigned female but whose gender identity is masculine.


rainbow family

en-noun

rainbow family (plural rainbow families)

(slang, diminutive) The LGBT+ community as a whole.


intersexphobic

en-adj

intersexphobic (comparative more intersexphobic, superlative most intersexphobic)

more intersexphobic (comparative)
most intersexphobic (superlative)

There is an urgent need to unpack the sexism underpinning these transphobic and intersexphobic views of sport; […]

2016, Heather Sykes, Christopher Smith, “Trans*, Intersex, and Cisgender Issues in Physical Education and Sport”, in Daniel B. Robinson, Lynn Randall, editors, Social Justice in Physical Education: Critical Reflections and Pedagogies for Change, Canadian Scholars’ Press, →ISBN, page 285:

Sometimes participants can say or do things that reflect or highlight their heteronormative, gender[-]normative, or intersexphobic beliefs.

2017, Terence Humphreys, “Down The Rabbit Hole: Learning New Perspectives Around Diverse Genders, Sexes, and Sexualities”, in Jeffrey Lynn Sapp, William DeJean, editors, Dear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Teacher: Letters of Advice to Help You Find Your Way, IAP, →ISBN, page 191:

Use language that is informed, positive, affirming and supportive when referring to people born with intersex variations, challenging any language that is intersexphobic and accurately educating students about the human body.

2021, Annette Brömdal, “Towards a whole-school approach for sexuality education in supporting and upholding the rights and health of students with intersex variations”, in Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, volume 21, number 5:

Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting intersexphobia.


trans-friendly

en-adjective

trans-friendly (comparative more trans-friendly, superlative most trans-friendly)

more trans-friendly (comparative)
most trans-friendly (superlative)

The trans community is also ravaged by aids; we need aids education and services that are offered in trans-friendly space.

1996, Leslie Feinberg, Transgender warriors: making history from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, page 125:

A true trans-friendly business should have a unisex restroom in addition to the traditional men's and women's rooms meant for those stuffy people who define themselves by their genitalia.

2002, Matt Kailey, Tranifesto: selected columns and other ramblings from a transgendered mind, page 38:

America isn't exactly as trans-friendly as it is gay-friendly.

2009, James E. Beasley School of Law of Temple University, Symposium: intersections of transgender lives and the law, page 453:

There are also social scenes that are traditionally more trans-friendly.

2014, Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource for the Transgender Community, page 293:


TERFism

Contemporary TERFism, or trans exclusive radical feminism, extends such arguments to deny the validity of transgender identities.

2018, Aniruddha Dutta, “Allegories of Gender: Transgender Autology versus Transracialism”, in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, volume 39, number 2, page 90:

The validation always comes after the lifelong internalization of transphobic messages we see constantly promulgated in the mainstream media, the numbing regularity of TERFism being splashed across op-ed pages and uttered by prominent feminists, […]

2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, page 239:

TERFism is clearly unpopular with Zillennials.

2019, Robby Soave, Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump, unnumbered page:

(usually derogatory) The beliefs on trans people held by TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists).


faggotize

en-verb

faggotize (third-person singular simple present faggotizes, present participle faggotizing, simple past and past participle faggotized)

faggotizes (present singular third-person)
faggotizing (participle present)
faggotized (participle past)
faggotized (past)

She was faggotizing the whole space program. That's what she was doin'.

1996, Carol Hill, The Eleven Million Mile High Dancer, W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 8:

"You are just a fat, faggotized retard like your brother," Heather says, wrinkling her nose.

2005, Melina Gerosa Bellows, Wish, New American Library, →ISBN, page 26:

The force of feminizing lies not only in the stripping away of masculinity, the faggotizing of the male body, or in the robbing of the feminine of its symbolic and reproductive centrality to national-normative sexualities;

2007, Jasbir K. Puar, Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 100:

(transitive, vulgar, derogatory) To make or depict as homosexual.


Mestizx

The gender-neutral suffix -x replaces the gendered Spanish suffixes -a and -o.

-a-o-x

(neologism) Mestizo or Mestiza (and of any gender).


Mestizx

(neologism) A Mestizo or Mestiza (of any gender).


gender-critical feminism

sex they were assigned at birth
birth sex

A branch of feminism that regards sex as a binary and unchangeable biological characteristic, rejects the concept of gender identity, and generally views transgender people as belonging to the sex they were assigned at birth.


xirself

head

xirself (the third person singular, gender-neutral, personal pronoun, the reflexive form of xe, feminine herself, masculine himself, neuter itself, plural themselves)

en-pron

xe (reflexive-of)
herself (feminine)
himself (masculine)
itself (neuter)
themselves (plural)


Kylux

(Examples: how people feel about Reylo, how people perceive Kylux, etc.)

2016, "Dark Side of the Mind", quoted in Kimberly Leerkes, "Fandom As A Remixing Culture", thesis submitted to the University of Amsterdam, page 87

In May 2016, a month after TFA was available for legal download and purchase on DVD, Kylux was already the most popular pairing in the fandom with over two thousand stories; […]

2017 December, Cait Coker, Karen Viars, “Welcoming the Dark Side?: Exploring Whitelash and Actual Space Nazis in TFA Fanfiction”, in NANO: New American Notes Online, volume 12:

On the other hand, a handful of my Mutuals ship Kylux […]

2018, Indira J. C. Neill, "Tumblr as Platform Architecture, User Experience, and Interaction Artifacts", dissertation submitted to the University of Illinois at Chicago, page 102

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kylo Ren and Armitage Hux from Star Wars.


Stormpilot

Stephanie didn't immediately latch onto Stormpilot after her first viewing of The Force Awakens, but now sees the developing relationship as playing on classic romantic beats.

2016 February, “Stormpilot: The Breakout Couple Of 2015”, in Colorblock Magazine, page 13:

The popularity of Stormpilot as a slash pairing is grounded in canonical signifiers, as Andrew Wheeler (2016) writes: […]

2017, Anastasia Salter, Bridget Blodgett, Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media: Sexism, Trolling, And Identity Politics, page 199:

The ambiguity act doesn't work as well for Boyega and Isaac, but The Rise of Skywalker appears to offer Stormpilot shippers (and you know who you are) no definitive reason to jump ship.

2019, André Hereford, “Forceful Finale”, in Metro Weekly, 16 December - 26 December 2019, page 39:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Finn and Poe Dameron from Star Wars.


Clexa

This year, in the truly perfect hour of television that was 3.03, Clexa progressed from adversaries to unbreakable partners.

2016 March 9, Vidya Srinivasan, “Reshop, Heda”, in The Tufts Daily, Tufts University, page 6:

Many fan videos in the Clexa fandom put the emphasis on the relationship between the two characters, aggregating scenes from different episodes.

2018, Mélanie Bourdaa, “A Strong Social Bond: Discussion, Debates and Friendship”, in Paul Booth, editor, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 394:

Two distinct communities coalesce around fans of Clexa and fans of Bellarke.

2019, Erin Kenny, “'Ship Wars' and the OTP: Narrating Desire, Literate Agency, and Emerging Sexualities in Fanfiction of The 100”, in Ingrid E. Castro, Jessica Clark, editors, Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction: Travel, Technology, Time, page 195:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Clarke Griffin and Lexa from the television series The 100.


Initialism from the names Janeway and Seven.

In that sense, Seven transcends femininity herself (and J/7 transcends lesbian slash) because feminine sentimentality is insufficient.

1998 February 11, Emily Salzfass, “Re: Pokes at Antnests”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

I've just started a new Web site (still under construction) for J/7 fanfic and have posted my new story "Sensations" on there.

1999 May 17, Tenderware, “New Janeway/Seven Site!”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

Tigermoth wrote some really hot, interesting J/7 stories, and I hope that she continues to do so, and perhaps branches out into some longer pieces!

2006 March 30, Rocky, “ASC AWARDS Comment Digest # 71 VOY Stories”, in alt.startrek.creative (Usenet):

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kathryn Janeway and Seven of Nine from the television series Star Trek: Voyager.


Mystrade

The latter include Lestrade (as played by Graves) appreciation and fanfic sites [URLS redacted], a significant strand of (self-evidently, fanon/non-canon) ‘Mystrade’ slash activity, in which Lestrade is imagined to be in a romantic/sexual relationship, or even civil partnership, with Mycroft Holmes (played by Sherlock’s co-creator, Mark Gatiss) […]

2011 November, Claire Monk, “Heritage Film Audiences 2.0: Period Film Audiences and Online Fan Cultures”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 7, number 2, page 474:

It seems natural in the context of fandom that Mystrade and Wincest are important generic categories, or that Kirk and Spock is an entirely different fictional animal from Kirk/Spock.

2013, Anne Jamison, Fic: Why Fanfiction Is Taking Over the World, page 361:

[…] whereas SailorChibi's Walking Together is labelled an 'AU' featuring 'Johnlock & mentions of Mystrade'.

2016, Maria Lindgren Leavenworth, “Paratextual Navigation as a Research Method: Fan Fiction Archives and Reader Instructions”, in Gabriele Griffin, editor, Research Methods for Reading Digital Data in the Digital Humanities, page 62:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Mycroft Holmes and Greg Lestrade from the television series Sherlock.


Thorki

This book is not a work of fan fiction, nor a book of spells. There are no runes for casting nor Thorki weddings to attend.

2015, Pepi Valderrama, Geek Anthropology of Loki's Army, page 7:

The images of Thorki […] represent a range of implied possibilities between the characters--from romantic longings to more explicit imagery.

2015, Matthew Alan Cicci, "Turning The Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, And The Transformation Of The 'Comic Book' Superhero", dissertation submitted to Wayne State University, page 91

Some fans of the couple of Thorki are from a Marvel fan circle, which also belongs to the Western culture fan circles; however, some Asian culture fans will also be interested due to the fact that Thorki reflected a seme-uke couple pattern of a muscular and straightforward seme and a tsundere cunning uke.

2019, Nishang Li, "'Rotten Culture': From Japan to China", thesis submitted to the University of Victoria, pages 51-52

(fandom slang) The incestuous ship of adoptive brothers Thor and Loki from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Stony

The "Stony" fandom takes the comic remediation ship or genderswap and removes it from its aesthetic relationship by placing it within a new remediated work.

2013 July, Poe Johnson, “Cultural Memory as Fandom Ideology in the Remediated World”, in The Phoenix Papers, volume 1, number 2, page 51:

It tugged at my heartstrings with Steve's memories, as well as giving me so many Stony feels.

2013 July, “Fandoms Assemble 2013 Fanfic Awards”, in Fandoms Assemble, page 21:

The largest ships in the MCU are “Stucky” (Steve Rogers AKA Captain America and Bucky Barnes AKA the Winter Soldier) and “Stony” (Steve Rogers and Tony Stark AKA Iron Man).

2016, Olivia Riley, "Queerness and Emotion in Fanfiction", thesis submitted to the University of Minnesota, page 10

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Steve Rogers (Captain America) and Tony Stark (Iron Man) from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


Wolfstar

From wolf + star: Remus Lupin is a werewolf; and Sirius Black is named after the dog star Sirius (Sirius Black is an animagus who turns into a dog).

Remus’ lycanthropy almost always features in Wolfstar fics precisely because it is his lycanthropy that brands his sexuality as disallowable.

2016, Jaquelin Elliott, “Becoming The Monster: Queer Monstrosity and the Reclamation of the Werewolf in Slash Fandom”, in Revenant, number 2, page 99:

The continued enthusiasm demonstrated here alludes to the power SBP has within HP fandom: as Emmie describes it, SBP is “the cornerstone of the Wolfstar fandom” (“Shoebox Project”).

2018, Kasandra Arthur, "We Are Having All Kinds of Fun: Fluidity in Shoebox Project", thesis submitted to the University of Waterloo, page 142

Silveredglass, a reader and writer who primarily ships Drarry and Remus Lupin/Sirius Black or 'Wolfstar', found Harry Potter fandom through Tumblr.

2018, Emily E. Roach, “Polyjuice and Potterheads: The Changing Face of Fandom from LiveJournal to Tumblr”, in Fan Phenomena: Harry Potter, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Remus Lupin and Sirius Black of the Harry Potter series.


Merthur

The bromance between Merthur remains intact, and it was great to see Merlin get his own back by slapping the king.

2012, Jodie Tyley, “Merlin Series Five: Volume One”, in SciFiNow, number 74, page 73:

Thousands of Merlin/Arthur stories were uploaded to www.fanfiction.net, in addition to other fan sites dedicated to 'Merthur', as the pairing became known.

2015, Philippa Semper, “'Camelot must come before all else': Fantasy and Family in the BBC Merlin”, in Gail Ashton, editor, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, page 123:

Given some viewers' objections to the presence of Gwen on Merlin, it is perhaps unsurprising that the most popular "ship" (fandom term for relationship) in the fandom is Merther—the undeniable connection between the young wizard and the monarch he serves so devotedly.

2019, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, page 96:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Merlin and Arthur Pendragon from the television series Merlin.


a-spec

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From a- (from asexual and aromantic) + spec, a clipping of spectrum.

“Aspecs [those on the asexual spectrum]^([sic]) can have relationships with anyone. We’re not limited to being exclusively with other aspecs…. There always needs to be communication and establishing boundaries regardless of the relationship. […]” – M

2022 April 15, Timaree Schmit, “Reader question: Asexual dating”, in Philadelphia Weekly:

This is why events like the Indigenous Aces panel and articles by a-specs from marginalised backgrounds are so important within the larger conversation around a-spec issues.

2023, Eris Young, Ace Voices: What it Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 29:

A person on the asexual spectrum and/or aromantic spectrum.


Grindeldore

The day after the release of Deathly Hallows, the community Grindeldore appeared on Livejournal.com. Dedicated to "[f]anworks and discussion on Grindelwald/Dumbledore," the community became a locus for fanfiction, fan art, and fan essays ("meta") on the relationship.

2008, Catherine Tosenberger, "'Oh my God, the Fanfiction!': Dumbledore's Outing and the Online Harry Potter Fandom", Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 2, Summer 2008, page 201:

After all, it was immediately after the seventh book release at Prophecy, a fan convention in Toronto, that I first encountered the idea of a "Grindeldore" pairing.

2010, Joel Meredith, “Our Business: Why I'm Glad J. K. Rowling Outed Albus Dumbledore”, in Sharon K. Goetz, editor, Terminus: Collected Papers on Harry Potter, 7-11 August 2008, page 137:

The circle on the front poster of the calendar binds Grindeldore together.

2018 September, S. P. Sipal, “Did Dumbledore And Grindelwald Make An Unbreakable Vow As Teens?”, in The Rowling Library Magazine, number 21, page 24:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore of the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts franchises.


transfic

en-noun

transfic (countable and uncountable, plural transfics)

Transfics do not ignore, negate, or push these transgender materialities to the margins; they explicitly foreground them as narratives and, in doing so, highlight the complexities of living as transgender in a cisgender-biased world.

2014, Malory Beazley, "Out of the Cupboards and Into the Streets!: Harry Potter Genderfuck Fan Fiction and Fan Activism", thesis submitted to Concordia University, page 56

In this chapter, I’ve proposed three broad sub-genres to the genderbending genre – trans fics, transformation fics, and cisgender fics – in addition to questioning some of the key assumptions built into the very lexicon that dominates the genre.

2017, Elliot Aaron Director, "Something Queer In His Make-Up: Genderbending, Omegaverses, And Fandom's Discontents", dissertation submitted to Bowling Green State University, page 126

In other words, trans characters in Sherlock transfics tend to portray non-normative but unchanged genders in that the characters continue to be read (and identify) as their canonical gender (or something close to it).

2018, Jonathan A. Rose, “'Sherlock Is Actually A Girl's Name': Challenging Gender Normativity Through Sherlock Fanfiction”, in Genre En Séries: Cinéma, Télévision, Médias, number 7, page 116:

(fandom slang, countable) A fanfic which focuses on a transgender character, especially one in which a canonically cisgender character is portrayed as trans.


binegative

As the binegative myths suggest, there are specific experiences unique to bisexuality and bisexual individuals. While bisexuals may experience forms of homonegativity, they also are […]

2018, Vikki Krane, Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Sport: Queer Inquiries, Routledge, →ISBN:

Practitioners may need to help bisexual clients to recognize their typical response patterns to strong emotions, anticipate and manage triggers, […] Practitioners might similarly employ stress inoculation strategies wherein clients visualize binegative situations—such as being subtly invalidated […]

2019, John E. Pachankis, Steven A. Safren, Handbook of Evidence-Based Mental Health Practice with Sexual and Gender Minorities, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 157:

The epistemic erasure of bisexuality manages to uphold binegative attitudes and beliefs, which in turn can unwittingly be internalised by bisexual ...

2020, Emiel Maliepaard, Renate Baumgartner, Bisexuality in Europe: Sexual Citizenship, Romantic Relationships, and Bi+ Identities, Routledge, →ISBN:


Faberry

In fact, Faberry are the second most represented couple on the meme, however they still only represent 8.6% of all filled stories [Appendix 1].

2013 May, Hannah Ellison, “Submissives, Nekos and Futanaris: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Glee Kink Meme”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 10, number 1, page 115:

In doing so, the writers fail to create a suitable counterpart to Rachel Berry and the productive example the “Faberry” relationship could have provided is thwarted in favor of drama over boyfriends and tiaras.

2014, Kasey Butcher, “Gold Stars and Slushies: The High Cost for Overachieving Girls”, in Michelle Parke, editor, Queer in the Choir Room: Essays on Gender and Sexuality in Glee, page 195:

The way in which the Faberry fandom has taken what few obvious scenes of friendship the show has given them, and also reinterpreted other scenes between Faberry, displays just how important this couple has become to the fandom.

2015, Alexandra Louise Elizabeth Simpson, "Shipping The Margin To The Centre: Excavating Tumblr; Filling In The Self", thesis submitted to Texas A&M University, page 40

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Quinn Fabray and Rachel Berry from the television series Glee.


Swan Queen

Swan + Queen, a combination of Emma Swan's surname and Regina Mills' title as the Evil Queen, likely chosen to reference the character in the ballet Swan Lake.

Swan Queen fans argue that the show runners of OUAT use subtextual codes within canonical storylines in an effort to queerbait the show’s queer audience members.

2017, Shannon A. Suddeth, "(Dis)Enchanted: (Re)constructing Love and Creating Community in the Once Upon a Time Queer Fandom", thesis submitted to the University of South Florida, page iii

[…] for OUaT, the “Swan Queen” ship, pairing protagonist Emma Swan and evil queen Regina Mills, is one of the most dominant on Tumblr.

2018, Pauline Greenhill, “Cinematic”, in Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, Lauren Bosc, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, unnumbered page:

While not all queer female OUAT fans are SQ shippers, and other femslash ships do exist within the fandom, the Swan Queen fandom is the largest and most vocal femslash fandom (and possibly ship fandom in general) within the broader OUAT fandom and is the fandom SUAS is written about and for.

2019, Colleen E. Johnson, "Femslash Fanfiction as a Reparative Practice of Critique", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 8

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Emma Swan and Regina Mills from the television series Once Upon a Time.


aro-ace

From aro (clipping of aromantic) + ace (clipping of asexual).

af

clipping of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">aromantic</i>

clipping of <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">asexual</i>

Stidham considers herself an "aroace," or an aromantic asexual.

2016 October 19, Megan Swett, “Celebrating Queertober and the LGBT+ community”, in The Journal, Springfield: University of Illinois, page 1 & 3:

“Oh no you fucking won't, if I don't want said virtue. You'll make yourself scarce, like a good sex-repulsed aroace.”

2019, Aidan Wayne, Play It Again, unnumbered page:

Walking through the world as an aro-ace, I experience a sense of isolation in my own feelings, or lack thereof, towards sex.

2019 August, Grace Christiansen, “Deadman's Hand”, in Debate, page 15:

(slang, neologism) A person who is aromantic and asexual.


autochorissexuality

Coined by Anthony Bogaert in 2012, from auto- + χωρίς (khōrís, “without”) + sexuality, for a rough meaning of "without-self-sexuality."

It is possible that some of our asexual participants are displaying paraphilic interest (including analloeroticism or autochorissexuality), although this should be investigated further in future research.

2017, Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto, Boris B. Gorzalka, “Sexual Fantasy and Masturbation Among Asexual Individuals: An In-Depth Exploration”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 46, number 1:

Building on Bogaert’s (2012) notion of autochorissexuality, Morag Yule and her colleagues propose a further dimension: subjectivity/non-subjective.

2017, Paul L. Vasey, “Introduction to the Special Section: The Puzzle of Sexual Orientation: What Is It and How Does It Work?”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 46:

I’m sure as a researcher you are aware of autochorissexuality, that is, the lack of oneself in one’s fantasies.

2019, "Olivia", quoted in Thom Winter-Gray & Nikki Hayfield, "'Can I be a kinky ace?': How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes", Psychology & Sexuality

(neologism) A sexual orientation characterized by a disconnect between the self and sexual arousal or fantasies, e.g. having sexual fantasies that do not involve oneself, or experiencing arousal without an active desire for partnered sexual activity.


autochorissexual

en-adj

autochorissexual (comparative more autochorissexual, superlative most autochorissexual)

more autochorissexual (comparative)
most autochorissexual (superlative)

Coined by Anthony Bogaert in 2012, from auto- + χωρίς (khōrís, “without”) + -sexual, for a rough meaning of "without-self-sexual."

It is possible that some asexual individuals will also be autochorissexual in that they are not sexually attracted to anyone or anything, but may nonetheless require explicit stimuli to facilitate masturbation to orgasm.

2014 August, Morag A. Yule, Lori A. Brotto, Boris B. Gorzalka, “Sexual fantasy and masturbation among asexual individuals”, in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality, volume 23, number 2, page 93:

The fact that some asexuals masturbate, but separate this activity from images of themselves as sexual and from sexual fantasies, supports the notion that some asexuals might be autochorissexual (Bogaert, 2012).

2015, Parul Modi, "Do men and women with asexual identities show low category specificity in their patterns of sexual attraction and attention to male and female swimsuit models?", thesis submitted to California State University, Fullerton

For autochorissexual participants, kinks and fetishes were understood as part of an individual’s unique desires and fantasies, which were either undesirable – or impossible – to experience in real-life.

2019, Thom Winter-Gray, Nikki Hayfield, “'Can I be a kinky ace?': How asexual people negotiate their experiences of kinks and fetishes”, in Psychology & Sexuality:

(neologism, offensive) Experiencing sexual arousal or fantasies disconnected from oneself and/or without an active desire for partnered sexual activity.


autochorissexualism

Coined by Anthony Bogaert in 2012, from auto- + χωρίς (khōrís, “without”) + sexualism, for a rough meaning of "without-self-sexuality."

To test more formally some of these ideas on autochorissexualism and automonosexualism, more research needs to be done on the sexual fantasies of masturbating asexuals.

2015, Anthony F. Bogaert, Understanding Asexuality, page 120:

The qualitative data provided little support to the idea some asexual individuals in the ABDL community may display autochorissexualism.

2018, Brian D. Zamboni, Grace Madero, “Exploring asexuality within an adult baby/diaper lover community”, in Psychology & Sexuality, volume 9, number 2:

Whilst this response linked to autochorissexualism, Olivia described going further than being ‘identity-less’ and instead shifting their identity freely within a fantasy by playing a variety of roles.


cisdude

The Pride parade in particular is heavily weighted toward cisdudes.

2015, Christina Cauterucci, “Swallow Your Pride”, in Washington City Paper, 5 June - 11 June 2015, page 14:

I’m a 25-year-old fat, brown, queer cisdude.

2015, "queerandpresentdanger", quoted in Kelsey Schultz, "Fat activism and collective accountability: from virtual community to embodied coalition", thesis submitted to DePaul University, page 55

In Brighton, a lot of gigs are billed as ‘queer’, I think because we are known as a queer town or something? But like, you turn up and the bands are all cisdudes.

2017, Michelle, quoted in Megan Sharp, "Women in Punk Creating Queer Identity Spaces: Strategies of Resistance Revisited", thesis submitted the University of Newcastle, page 141


zedsexual

zedsexual (comparative more zedsexual, superlative most zedsexual)

more zedsexual (comparative)
most zedsexual (superlative)

From zed + -sexual as a play on asexual, since the sexuality falls on the other side of the sexual spectrum from asexuality, as the letters "A" and "Z" are on opposite ends of the alphabet.

Most significantly, it was a time before zedsexual people started (en masse) appropriating ace educational materials and mainstream ace discourse to perpetrate and/or justify anti-ace sexual coercion and rape […]

2015, "Omnes et Nihil", "Situating This Zine & The Ace Sex Wars", F-ace-ing Silence, Issue 3, June 2015, page 5

But what about people who don't feel completely asexual or zedsexual?

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

Both asexual and zedsexual (non-asexual) people tend to experience different attractions on a spectrum of intensity, from none ever to all the attraction all the time, with many different nuanced levels in between.

2019, Jo Teut, "Integrating Asexuality: A is for Asexual in LGBTQIA+", New Directions for Community Colleges, Winter 2019, page 96

(neologism) Not asexual; experiencing sexual attraction to others.


cisguy

"This is not about sex!" I snapped. "I mean, yes, I was interested in being with a cisguy after my surgery, but–"

2014, Katie Rain Hill, Ariel Schrag, Rethinking Normal: A Memoir in Transition, page 235:

The humorous guide, which is full of illustrations (cartoons, photos, diagrams), is written for a young, fashion-conscious FTM audience that seeks to pass among cisguys.

2016, Matthew Heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page:

[…] the most known or visible representation is typically a White cisguy.

2020, Amanda, quoted in Néstor Noyola, Mónica Sánchez, & Esteban V. Cardemil, "Minority stress and coping among sexual diverse Latinxs", Journal of Latinx Psychology, Volume 8, Number 1 (2020)


cisgirl

Crossdresser, drag queen, transwoman or cisgirl laying it on thick, nobody had the guts to ask.

2017, K. C. Alexander, Nanoshock, unnumbered page:

Simply to say this novel clearly illustrates that transgirls issues face the same issues of cisgirls, and then some.

2018, Mary Ann Harlan, The Girl-Positive Library: Inspiring Confidence, Creativity, and Curiosity in Young Women, page 68:

The notion of “puberty” in this context reduced various kinds of maturation that cisgirls typically experience down to a single threshold event, menarche.

2019, Ashwini Tambe, Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws, unnumbered page:


cisboy

Indeed, the heavy and active involvement of (cis)women soldiers in the torture of prisoners stands in clear contradiction to not only the U.S. military's self-image as the quintessential masculine institution that turns cisboys into cismen, but also seems to falsify feminist scholarship on the foundational role of militarized masculinity in military operations […]

2016, Nadja Al-Ali, Nicola Pratt, “Positionalities, intersectionalities, and transnational feminism in researching women in post-invasion Iraq”, in Annick T. R. Wibben, editor, Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics, page 93:

Of course, cisboys and trans girls may also want and obtain these items (and clearly, many do), but representing them as specifically girls' toys overdetermines their location.

2018, Claudia Schwabe, “Pedagogy”, in Pauline Greenhill, Jill Terry Rudy, Naomi Hamer, Lauren Bosc, editors, The Routledge Companion to Media and Fairy-Tale Cultures, unnumbered page:

We had a bunch of cis-girls and cis-boys in the unit.

2019, Rudy Akbarian, quoted in Jorge Paniagua, "Devoted To His Country, Dismissed by Trump", The Pride, 8 February - 21 February 2019, page 5


Adoribull

"Adoribull" Homosexuality

2016, Kim Johansen Østby, "From Embracing Eternity to Riding the Bull: Representations of Homosexuality and Gender in the Video Game Series Mass Effect and Dragon Age", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 319

Firstly, the game only hints at the Adoribull relationship and does not provide more than a dozen dialogue lines, which enables fan writers to develop this relationship freely and divert from the original storyline.

2018 April, Gaspard Pelurson, “Mustaches, Blood Magic and Interspecies Sex: Navigating the Non-Heterosexuality of Dorian Pavus”, in Game Studies, volume 18, number 1, unnumbered page:

I personally, love Adoribull as a ship. I think it is one built entirely on mutual attraction and want, that develops into a proper romance.

2019, "Aslinncosplay", quoted in Olga Svedin, "Fans som bråkar: Fans reaktioner på representationer av queerhet i dataspelet Dragon Age: Inquisition", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 38

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Dorian Pavus and the Iron Bull from the video game Dragon Age: Inquisition.


Rizzles

Quite a few pop culture pieces about the show discuss “Rizzles,” a name the fan base created for a hypothetical Rizzoli-Isles pairing.

2016, Lucia Scott, "They Won't: Analyzing Queerbaiting and Compulsory Heterosexuality in Popular Television", thesis submitted to Baylor University, page 25

R&I producers have commented that they did not intend to depict sexual tension between Jane and Maura, and stated or strongly implied that the pairing would never become romantic, but they have also revealed an intent to encourage the hopes of Jane/Maura (or "Rizzles") fans.

2017, Eve Ng, “Between text, paratext, and context: Queerbaiting and the contemporary media landscape”, in Transformative Works and Cultures, volume 24:

Finally I want to contribute to both academic fields by analyzing three fan videos created by fans from the Rizzles fandom.

2019, Liselot Jacobs, "The Power of Representation: Rethinking Sexuality and Challenging Heteronormativity in Rizzoli & Isles Fan Videos", thesis submitted to Utrecht University, page 5

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles from the television series Rizzoli & Isles.


Kurtofsky

By drilling down further, the results reveal that half of those are Klaine stories and a third are Kurtofsky (the pairing of Kurt with his bully turned secret admirer)

2013 May, Hannah Ellison, “Submissives, Nekos and Futanaris: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the Glee Kink Meme”, in Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, volume 10, number 1, page 117:

On the fan fiction site, participants began writing “Kurtofsky” (Kurt/Dave pairing) romances in response to this plot twist, which I read avidly to see the participant reaction to this unexpected pairing.

2017, Mandy Rita Stewart, "Digital Literacies And 'glee': The Role Of Fan Fiction Virtual Writing And Social Commentary In Response To Bullying Themes With Adolescent Writers", dissertation submitted to Wayne State University, page 1

Besides discussing the series and rooting for specific, slang-labelled twosomes (such as the heterosexual duo nicknamed "Finchel", Finn and Rachel, or the same-sex couple of "Kurtofsky", Kurt and Karofsky), fans have contributed to the diffusion and re-mediation of the show so much that the Glee phenomenon has been defined as "a user-generated musical epidemic" (Zaccone 2009; online, my translation).

2015, Alice Casarini, “Chorus Lines–Translating Musical Television Series in the Age of Participatory Culture: The Case of Glee”, in Jorge Díaz Cintas, Josélia Neves, editors, Audiovisual Translation: Taking Stock, page 216:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kurt Hummel and Dave Karofsky from the television series Glee.


demigirl

Me: male-bodied demigirl with big black headphones and pink bow-headband in front of you on the bus to Ballard.

2015, anonymous, "I Saw U", The Stranger, Volume 24, Number 25, 18 February 2015 - 24 February 2015, page 51

Among the students planning to attend Lavender Graduation is senior Julia Heath, who identifies as an asexual non-binary demigirl.

2018 April 26, Rachel Fechter, “Lavender Graduation Ceremony to offer inclusive space for LGBTQ students”, in The Index, Truman State University, page 7:

Hamlet identifies as a demigirl, although the term is used here by her best friend, Rachel Yorick, […]

2019, Ariane M. Balizet, Shakespeare and Girls’ Studies, unnumbered page:

(neologism) A person who identifies as partially, but not completely, female.


Cophine

But Manson offers these words of encouragement for fans of Cosima/Delphine: "There's always hope for 'Cophine.' "

2015 May 9, Marisa Roffman, “'Orphan Black' Creators on Justin Chatwin's 'Dark' Character, Potential Clone Reunion”, in The Hollywood Reporter:

Fans of the show were closely watching for plot developments on the Cophine front […]

2016 June 17, Bethonie Butler, “The 'Orphan Black' finale gave fans a major reunion, but what comes next?”, in The Washington Post:

For instance, my OTP is Cophine—Cosima and Delphine from Orphan Black. This means my fannish identity and online fandom involves reading Cophine-centric fanfiction, watching or making Cophine fanvids, creating angsty or hopeful playlists on 8tracks, buying t-shirts and tote bags on Redbubble, liveblogging new episodes, forming group chats to discuss the show, and, as an academic fan, I even write research papers about Orphan Black and Cophine.

2016, Bethany A. Scettrini, "Fan Responses to Orphan Black and The 100 via Blogs, Fan Fiction, and Ship Wars", thesis submitted to Baylor University, page 50

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Cosima Niehaus and Delphine Cormier from the television series Orphan Black.


Emison

Adherence to canon is crucial for non-AU (alternate universe) fictions, but Emison shippers invert canonical events to draw attention to the textual margins wherein Emison arguably exists.

2016, William Patrick Bingham, "Queer Fan Practices Online: Digital Fan Production as a Negotiation of LGBT Representation in Pretty Little Liars", thesis submitted to the University of East Anglia, page 121

“The Glove That Rocks the Cradle” was a bittersweet episode for Pretty Little Liars fans as “Emison” shippers got their greatest wish and Aria (Lucy Hale) began to buckle under the A.D. pressure.

2017 May 31, “Pretty Little Liars: Two Liars Get Together as One Falls Apart”, in The Ledger:

Popular fan-fic writer JennasSunglasses writes extensively, as do many others, about Emison: the lesbian relationship between Emily and Alison.

2017 June 29, Anna Cafolla, “#PLLGameOver: Farewell Pretty Little Liars, the most fancentric TV show yet”, in The Guardian:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Emily Fields and Alison DiLaurentis from the television series Pretty Little Liars.


Tibette

The assertion of Tibette as a couple could be read as a norm of the group, against which all other couples and pairings were judged.

2009 December, Becky Walker, “Imagining the future of lesbian community: The case of online lesbian communities and the issue of trans”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 23, number 6, page 933:

So what happens now? Well we obviously all wear out our DVDs and obsessively watch all the tributes on Youtube^([sic]) to Tibette and Sharman.

2010, Danielle Carter, “The L Word”, in Official Guide to London Pride 2010, page 55:

Bette is OMG! I love her ... I'm straight and somehow she manages to turn me on ... and Tibette is the ultimate great couple on The L Word! Go Tibette!

2015, anonymous, quoted in Sarah Cefai, "Love's Lesbian Refrain of Feeling: 'Bette and Tina' and the Subversion of Heterosexual Affect", Rhizomes: Cultural Studies In Emerging Knowledge, Issue 28 (2015)

(fandom slang) The relationship between the characters Tina Kennard and Bette Porter from the television series The L Word.