transvesticide

In recent years, contemporary protest movements such as NiUnaMenos (NotOne[Woman]Less) have drawn attention to the country's rising number of femicides, a category that in Argentina includes transvesticides and transfemicides.

2019, C. J. W.-L. Wee, “Contemporary theatre, the contemporary, and historicity”, in Helena Grehan, Peter Eckersall, editors, The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics, unnumbered page:

At the same time, it enables higher levels of sexist violence in society, with its wake of femicides, transvesticides, transfemicides and other hate crimes.

2020, Celeste Fierro, Feminism in Debate, Reform or Revolution?, unnumbered page:

Later, the tragedy surrounding transvesticide was added to the campaign. Femicide and transvesticide show, in the most brutal way, the power relations of the current patriarchy.

2020, Ana Isabel González Montes, “Argentinean Feminist Movements: Debates from praxis”, in Diana Mulinari, Khayaat Fakier, Nora Räthzel, editors, Marxist-Feminist Theories and Struggles Today: Essential Writings on Intersectionality, Postcolonialism and Ecofeminism, page 287:

(Latin America) Alternative form of travesticide.


travesticide

From Spanish travesti (“trans woman, cross-dresser”) + -cide.

suffix

In 2018 the figure of "travesticide" (term developed by Radi and Sardá-Chandiramani 2016) was applied for the first time in Argentina during the trial for the murder of travesti activist Diana Sacayán.

2020, Moira Fradinger, Blas Radi, Moira Pérez, “Argentina, Chile, And Uruguay”, in Chuck Stewart, editor, Gender and Identity Around the World, page 197:

Speaking of violence starting from femicides and travesticides positions them as its culminating point, but it also poses a challenge: to not limit ourselves to its necropolitical accounting, the tallying of femicides and victims.

2020, Verónica Gago, Feminist International: How to Change Everything, page 56:

In criminal law, the case of the murder of the travestite and human rights activist Dana Sacayán, has been framed by the prosecution as one of a “travesticide”, that is, a hate crime against a travestite.

2021, Laura Saldivia Menajovsky, “Argentina, Trans Persons and the Development of a Human Rights Discourse”, in Isabel Cristina Jaramillo Vélez, Laura Carlson, editors, Trans Rights and Wrongs: A Comparative Study of Legal Reform Concerning Trans Persons, page 360:

(Latin America) The killing of a travesti because of her gender, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.


transfemicide

en-noun

transfemicide (countable and uncountable, plural transfemicides)

When Monica Loera was shot to death near our North Austin home on January 22, her murder became the first of the nation's twenty-seven trans* homicides and the first of Texas's four transfemicides.

2018, Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley, Beyoncé in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism, page 145:

The killing of a trans woman because of her gender identity, especially when motivated by transmisogyny.


lesbiflexible

In recent years, bisexuality has become only one of various orientations identifying with attraction to more than one gender. Eisner (2013) reviews the growing list of identities within the bi-spectrum of "under one umbrella" that include, but are not limited to: pansexual/omnisexual, polysexual, queer, fluid, heterofexible, homoflexible/lesbiflexible, and bicurious.

2017, Gerald P. Mallon, Social Work Practice with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People:

2018, Charlotte A. Archer, The Hierarchy of Rights and the Expression of Values in the LGBTQ+ Rights Movement (master's thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University), table 5, sexual orientation: Heteroflexible 2.0% 1 Homoflexible 0.0% 0 Lesbiflexible 0.0% 0

lesbiflexible: describing a woman who identifies as predominantly lesbian but is open to relationships and sexual encounters with men or gender nonconforming partners.

2021, Chloe O. Davis, The Queens' English, The LGBTQIA+ Dictionary of Lingo and Colloquial Phrases, page 196:

(LGBTQ, neologism) Primarily lesbian, but with a limited amount of attraction to men, or a limited desire to partake in romantic or sexual activity with a man.


transgenderal

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Latin sexus
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin sexuālisbor.
English sexual
English transsexualblend.
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English genderblend.
English transgenderal
Blend of transsexual + gender. Coined by American transgender activist Virginia Prince in 1969 in order to distinguish between transgender people who have undergone medical treatment to change their sex and those who have not (see first quotation).

etymon

transsexual>having a gender different from one's assigned sex

coinage

Greenberg's second common form of sexual and erotic relationship is transgenderal. Here, partners are different genders or play different gender roles, although they are not necessarily different sexes.

2000 August 31, Michael R. Kauth, True Nature: A Theory of Sexual Attraction, Springer Science+Business Media, →ISBN, page 88:

Women found advantages in taking on a man's name since it was easier for a man to publish his work than for a woman. However, women did not monopolize transgenderal pseudonymity because, interestingly, men also adopted female pseudonyms.

2002, Jared C. Calaway, “Benjamin Franklin and Transgenderal Pseudonymity”, in Constructing the Past, volume 3, number 1:

(dated, uncommon) Of a person, expressing a different gender role.


polyam

en-adj

polyam (comparative more polyam, superlative most polyam)

more polyam (comparative)
most polyam (superlative)

If someone discloses a polyam identity or relationship, the Three and Four are strong indicators that it's a good time to welcome in new partners or take the next steps forward.

2019, Cassandra Snow, Queering the Tarot, page 77:

But even with that being the case, I've never had a polyam bud presume a sexual interest on my part.

2021, Faith G. Harper, Unfuck Your Friendships: Using Science to Make and Maintain the Most Important Relationships of Your Life, unnumbered page:

Many people have mixed feelings or reluctance about being in a polyam relationship, but if they were clear that they did not want to be in this relationship, they would have broken up rather than come to couples therapy.

2021, Martha Kauppi, Polyamory: A Clinical Toolkit for Therapists (and Their Clients), page 250:


deadvoice

From dead + voice, modelled on earlier deadname.

The previous voice of a person (especially a transgender person) who has since changed their voice.


gendercrit

Trans people volunteer at community clinics and Planned Parenthood, while “gendercrits” partner with conservative groups like Alliance Defendinng^([sic]) Freedom who push anti-choice laws.

2019 May 16, Crystal Frasier (@AmazonChique), Twitter:

Baffles me how anyone can accuse gendercrits of lacking compassion. In their every action I see their compassion for other women, for children and for LGBT (yes T) people. Safeguarding is born out of compassion.

2020 September 9, SophieXY (@SophieXY44), Twitter:

Gendercrits are now putting dinosaur emoji in their bios 🦕🦖, presumably to illustrate that their views are extinct relics of the past.

2021 October 9, Wizarding News (@HPANA), Twitter:

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


boymode

Coordinate term: girlmode

I was out in semi-boymode tonight and some drunk Scottish guy walked up to me in the street and said "Aye pal, you tryna become a lassie?" I was just like "Umm I guess" super embarrassedly, and he said "ah well good on ya, don't let nae cunt tell you who you are, be yoursel"

2021 October 7, @Vamp_Page, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-05:

...just been told I look better in boymode...

2021 September 1, @babethebashful, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-07-05:

Before I came out as trans I was in boymode at work and this girl came up to me and goes "You're not fooling anyone" I was like "Huh?" she goes "You're one of them girls pretending to be a boy. I can see your tits and they're bigger than mine!" I love accidental validation!

2021 December 3, @InkMasterbator, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-12-04:

(especially in transgender slang) The state of presenting as a boy, regardless of one's actual gender identity.


Kadena

Even so, the show succeeds in establishing the Kadena connection with heartfelt love and deep respect.

2017, Melissa Lee, “The Bold Type Big Buzz”, in F-Yeah, volume 1, page 5:

During the first two seasons while the Kadena relationship develops onscreen, the pair dominated fanfiction writing.

2020, Jessica Doble, "Reading Fandom: Fandom as Reception and Creative Authority", dissertation submitted to the University of Lousiana at Lafayette, page 231

While the show has had issues when it comes to diversity […], Kadena never fails to make our gay hearts happy.

2021 July, Roxy Bourdillon, “Get The Look: The Bold Type”, in Diva, page 22:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Kat Edison and Adena El-Amin from the television series The Bold Type.


Vauseman

Note: If you don't ship 'Vauseman' by the end of the season, then I'm judging you.

2014, Jenna Benson, in "Reviews", Blitz Mag (University of New South Wales), Session 2, Week 3 + 4 (2014), page 34

However, Clexa (Clarke Griffin and Lexa) from The 100 (2014-), Vauseman (Alex Vause and Piper Chapman) from Orange is the New Black (2013-) and Karmy (Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld) in Faking It (2014-2016) are further examples.

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 6

I will delve into the ways Vauseman both upholds and subverts the expectations of a couple involved in a traditional marriage plot.

2019, Alexis Constantine, "'I wanna be your prison wife': Nice Blonde Ladies, Broken Rules, and Subversive Marriage Plots in Jenji Kohan’s Orange is the New Black", thesis submitted to Middle Tennessee State University, page 13

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Alex Vause and Piper Chapman from the television series Orange Is the New Black.


Paily

Commenters are generally supportive of the possibility of a Paige and Emily coupling, either expressing surprise or that they had been expecting this, with one commenter even expressing her love for “Paily” (Emily and Paige’s relationship name) (ABC Family, 2011).

2013, Caitlin Campisi, "Homonationalism on TV?: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Queer and Trans* Youth Representations on Mainstream Teen Television Shows", thesis submitted the University of Ottawa, page 98

They can explore female queerness by reblogging posts about ‘Paily’.

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 74

Strategies which fanfiction authors use to create fanfiction, such as closely analysing homoerotic moments in the source text, are investigated through analysing similar trends investigated in section one and by employing the same method outlined above but are applied to Paily fics instead of the slash texts explored in section one.

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 100

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


Karmy

Fans rooting for "Karmy" – the official couple name for the two of them – may still have hope.

2014, Sophia Kaufman, "'Faking It' midseason finale forgoes subtlety", The Michigan Daily (University of Michigan), 3 December 2014, page 5A

But despite the show’s depiction of Karma as presumably straight, fans latched onto the “Karmy” pairing.

2018, Annemarie Navar-Gill, “From Strategic Retweets to Group Hangs: Writers’ Room Twitter Accounts and the Productive Ecology of TV Social Media Fans”, in Television & New Media, volume 19, number 5:

Fans were especially disappointed when Covington revealed to the Hollywood Reporter, “It was always my intention to make ‘Karmy’ happen during our final season. Karma would finally realize that her possessiveness of Amy might be a sign of deeper feelings for her best friend.”

2019, Carter Covington, quoted in Francesca Petronio, "Raised on TV: A Queer Teen's Guide to Syndicated Sexualities", thesis to The City University of New York, page 42

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Karma Ashcroft and Amy Raudenfeld from the American television series Faking It.


Naomily

In the case of Naomily however, the relationship is endorsed within the official text by the end of Series 3, and by Series 4 they are unambiguously presented and recognized as a couple.

2012 February, Deborah F. Hunn, “'The dark side of Naomily': Skins, fan texts and contested genres”, in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, volume 26, number 1, page 93:

There was no difference between the handling of Naomily and that of other couples on the show because it was a story about falling in love—the fact that the lovers happened to be a pair of schoolgirls was incidental.

2020, Ann-Marie Cook, “Just a Queer Little Love Story: Skins and the Naomily Phenomenon”, in Stefano Ramello, editor, Fascination of Queer, page 173:

The details of their romance are lovingly expanded upon, developing the Naomily narrative in multiple ways.

2020, Kate McNicholas Smith, Lesbians on Television: New Queer Visibility & The Lesbian Normal, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Naomi Campbell and Emily Fitch from the British television series Skins.


boymoder

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

From boymode + -er. By surface analysis, boy + -moder.

Coordinate term: girlmoder

(transgender slang) One who is in boymode (presenting as male regardless of gender identity).


en-noun

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism (uncountable)

From the term fully automated luxury communism, proposed by the British journalist Aaron Bastani in 2014, which suggests that automation will make work and scarcity obsolete. The Gay and Space parts were later added by activists to suggest that this utopia would also end all persecution of LGBTQ people and become more advanced than modern society.

Fully Automated Luxury Queer Space Communism

(politics, Internet slang, LGBTQ) A utopian society proposed by far-left activists where gender, wealth, and work become obsolete and everyone lives in luxury.


service top

(slang, LGBTQ) A dominant or penetrating partner in sex who applies sensation or control with their partner’s pleasure in mind, rather than their own.


SOFFA

Liasons^([sic]) are available for people of color, soffas and differently-abled.

1996 November 14, <mdixoncd@aol.com>, “True Spirit Conference”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-15:

It is the public nature of transgenderism that is an issue both for the individuals and for their SOFFAs (significant others, friends, families and allies.)

2011, Malcolm Sargeant, “Age, sexual orientation and gender identity”, in Malcolm Sargeant, editor, Age Discrimination and Diversity, →ISBN, page 113:

You don't need to go from zero to SOFFA overnight. Sadie talked about "the pressure to become a super trans ally or otherwise cut off contact with the transgender parent, […]"

2020, Heather Bryant, “Finding Community”, in My Trans Parent, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 195:

significant other
significant other#English

Initialism of significant other, family, friend, and/or ally.


peak trans

en-verb

peak trans (third-person singular simple present peak transes, present participle peak transing, simple past and past participle peak transed)

peak transes (present singular third-person)
peak transing (participle present)
peak transed (participle past)
peak transed (past)

From peak + trans. Emerged from the use of peak as an adjective meaning "at the greatest extent" or "maximum" (compare peak oil). The phrase peak trans is first attested online in this sense in 2014 and in print in 2016.

Mumsnet peak transed me

2017 December 22, Lizbeth Sophia (@XXnowalways), Twitter:

TERFs are obsessed with 'peak transing' cis people the same way MRAs are obsessed with 'red pilling' men.

2018 December 21, Prism (@ialika_lifina), Twitter:

Just peak transed my whole table at a domestic abuse training event.

2019 June 25, Autumnsdance (@Autumnsdance), Twitter:

(gender-critical) To cause one to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views.


peak trans

Please god let her [the author's daughter] peak trans be as painless as possible.

2018, "GenderCriticalDad", "'I'm Not A Hideously Bigoted Parent Who Doesn't 'Get' It'", in Transgender Children and Young People: Born in Your Own Body (eds. Heather Brunskell-Evans & Michele Moore), page 81

In a practice carried over from Reddit, members are encouraged to share their conversion stories, which they confusingly call their “peak trans” moments.

2020 December 8, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Secret Internet of TERFs”, in The Atlantic:

Gender critical feminists often talk about hitting 'peak trans'- the moment when you realize the truth about transgenderism. Here's my peak trans story.

2021, Katie Roche, 2+2=5: How The Transgender Craze is Redefining Reality, page 2:

(gender-critical) The moment when a person feels motivated to adopt gender-critical or anti-transgender views.


lavender lad

Coined by U.S. federal senator Everett Dirksen in the 1950s. From the association with femininity of the color lavender. An alliterative construct, pairing lad (“boy”) and lavender.

(historical, US, politics, sexuality, LGBTQ, slang) A homosexual male.


gay liberation

(politics) An activist movement in the late 1960s to 1980s that advocates better treatment for gay men and lesbian women.


lower surgery

en-noun

lower surgery (countable and uncountable, plural lower surgeries)

It's anyway so that the lower surgery opens the doors to those women only spaces where you must be naked.

1994 November 15, Aaro <lh85414@proffa.cc.tut.fi>, “Re: This gender thing (was Why SRS?)”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet):

Jeff's (FtM) concerns after his surgery included "keeping the dick in straight and not falling out of my underpants that annoys me, [and] having to come to come out [as trans], because is not good enough like the MtF lower surgery."

2008, Lori B. Girshick, Transgender Voices, →ISBN, page 85:

This is my story of going through lower surgery, specifically phalloplasty, and the adventures I have had with changing my genitals along the way.

2021, Finlay Games, Top to Bottom, →ISBN, page 12:

(LGBTQ, surgery) Synonym of bottom surgery


upper surgery

upper surgery (countable and uncountable, plural upper surgeries)

She [my therapist] _is_ actually willing to be flexible about guidelines, is pushing for allowing upper surgery for FtM's to be allowed on an informed consent basis, disdains DSM-IV type diagnostic categories for clients...

1997 April 25, Dale, “The Gender Clinic from Hell”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-25:

Witnessing these former butches strut around, super male. Flat chests, muscular arms; deep voices. Some had the money to get upper surgery.

2014, Red Jordan Arobateau, Difficult Journey, →ISBN, page 41:

With hormones and upper surgery (Sam also had a hysterectomy), it didn't take very long until Sam stopped looking like a female.

2018, Linda DeFruscio-Robinson, “Sam”, in Transgender Profiles, →ISBN, page unnumbered page:


chest surgery

chest surgery (countable and uncountable, plural chest surgeries)

Kevin (who's had chest surgery, and may or may not choose to have genital surgery later on).

1994 October 27, Kevin Wilson <70641.507@CompuServe.COM>, “tala's raves”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2021-11-25:

This reaction usually relates to alteration of the body through hormone therapy and chest surgery.

2007, Walter Bockting, Eli Coleman, edited by Randi Ettner, Stan Monstrey, and A. Evan Eyler, Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery, →ISBN, page 199:

Unfortunately, there is a paucity of data guiding decision making for asymptomatic, average risk transgender men who have undergone chest surgery.

2020, Tamar Reisman, edited by Marianne J. Legato, The Plasticity of Sex, →ISBN, page 202:


yassification

yassification (countable and uncountable, plural yassifications)

From yass + -ification. Attested on Twitter from August 2020 with a now-deleted reply by Twitter user @puppyoveralls.

2020 August 26, @puppyoveralls, “I’m choking on the yassification gas”, in Twitter, retrieved March 7, 2022.

Referring to itself as the “yassification” of Wordle, this take on the original puzzle game asks you to guess words which have relevance to the LGBTQIA community.

2022 February 15, Sian Bradley, “The Best Wordle Alternatives”, in Huddersfield Daily Examiner:

Earlier I outlined the way “yaas” functioned as in-group slang, and then as a meme in the form of yassification. Meme aggregate pages post this kind of content to boost their own profile, making money off ads and merchandise. Eventually, the commodification is so far reaching that it is disconnected not just from QTPOC, and not just from queerness, but disconnected from any community meaning at all. This can be seen with Yaasification shirts available on AliBaba and other mass merchandise sites.

2023, Abbie Levesque DeCamp, Queer Memes: Forms and Communities of Composition (PhD dissertation), Northeastern University, →ISBN, page 114:

(Internet slang, LGBTQ, neologism) The process of making something relevant to or suggestive of LGBTQ+ culture.


alphabet mafia

Coined by detractors in reference to initialisms like LGBTQIA+ (derogatorily called alphabet soup) and a perceived coercive attitude; compare feminazi.

(derogatory or humorous) The LGBTQIA+ community.


girlcock

/ˈɡɜː(ɹ)lˌkɒk/

/ˈɡɚ.əlˌkɑk/

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

(vulgar, transgender slang) The penis of a trans woman.


attack helicopter

attack helicopter (plural attack helicopters)

[…] but that wasn't “inclusive” enough, so now the gender listing isn't a checkbox with either “male” or “female” — it's a fill-in-the-blank where you can list anything from peanut butter to an attack helicopter as your gender. […]

2018, Mark Dice, Liberalism: Find a Cure, Mark Dice, →ISBN:

'I identify as an attack helicopter' is a regular dismissal of non-binary identities; hearing this can be a weekly occurrence. The support of other non-binary people and bibliotherapy of good non-binary sources can be a remedy to this.

2019, Sam Hope, Person-Centred Counselling for Trans and Gender Diverse People: A Practical Guide, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 59:

[…] going to be spending a fair amount of time waiting like a twit in a cosmetic store while your wife / girlfriend / cis-gender / attack helicopter reads every damn label on every damn blusher, or pillar of lipstick, or whatever it is.

2019, Andrew Mackay, The Hunger Diaries, or: How to Lose Weight Fasting and Eating Well, Chrome Valley Books:

(neologism, Internet slang, humorous, derogatory, offensive) A fictitious gender assigned or suggested in quips, used to dismiss non-binary gender identities, and sometimes also transness in general.


GBT

Initialism of gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual; less common variation of LGBT


It is particularly important to make this distinction because LGBTQ2S+ movements are often mistakenly historicized as being led by the white middle class, despite their tremendous diversity on a world scale, as well as within Canada […]

2019, Megan Walley, Incorporating Nonbinary Gender Into Inuit Archaeology: Oral Testimony and Material Inroads, unnumbered page:

The LGBTQ2S+ community engagement meetings revealed 2 key areas that triggered individuals and made them uncomfortable: sirens and law enforcement vehicles.

2020, Edmonton Pride Festival Society, quoted in Alexa DeGagne, "Pinkwashing Pride Parades: The Politics of Police in LGBTQ2S Spaces in Canada", in Turbulent Times, Transformational Possibilities?: Gender and Politics Today and Tomorrow (eds. Alexandra Dobrowolsky & Fiona MacDonald), page 273

Schools can help LGBTQ2S+ children and families by creating a safe and supportive environment for all students: one that prohibits bullying, harassment, and violence.

2020, Carole Massing, Bonnie Anderson, Carol Anderson, The Educational Assistant's Guide to Supporting Inclusion in a Diverse Society, page 10:

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


trans widow

When I began my public life as a transwidow, I knew who knew by the curious or pitying stares we got.

2012, Christine Benvenuto, Sex Changes: A Memoir of Marriage, Gender, and Moving On, unnumbered page:

Tinsel now writes about trans widows for feminist websites, and publishes their stories online under pseudonyms.

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

What the experiences of 'trans widows' of late-transitioning trans women are actually like, and what their own political needs are.

2021, Kathleen Stock, Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism, unnumbered page:

(gender-critical slang, offensive) A cis woman who feels her marriage ended or is at risk of ending due to her spouse coming out as a trans woman.

2014 February 19, “Texas Appeals Court Rules in Favor of Trans Widow”, in Florida Agenda, page 9:

Trans widow Nikki Araguz won her battle in February to have her marriage recognized to her deceased husband.

2014 May 30, Anna Waugh, “Texas marriage cases stall in state, federal courts”, in Dallas Voice, page 9:

If Helen were around, I feel she would be annoyed that I’m not able to describe myself as a real ‘trans widow’ because the term has been captured hatefully by a group who regard announcing that you are trans means you have expired.

2021 July 31, Elaine O'Neill, “I’m a real trans widow – anyone saying their newly out trans partner is ‘dead’ disgusts me”, in Metro, UK:

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see trans, widow; a widow who is transgender.


TRA

Tanzania Revenue Authority
w:Tanzania Revenue Authority

(Tanzania) Initialism of Tanzania Revenue Authority.


transsensual

en-adj

transsensual (comparative more transsensual, superlative most transsensual)

more transsensual (comparative)
most transsensual (superlative)

Probably a blend of transsexual + sensual, transgender + sensual, or similar.

TV/TS/SO - Carolina Transsensual Alliance: […] Open to all regardless of sexual orientation. No gay men unless CD. […] SOs welcome.

[1993 Winter, “Directory of Organizations & Services”, in Vivian D. Allen, editor, TV-TS Tapestry Journal, volume 66, →ISSN, page 89:

Jack was able to come to a sense of peace within himself as he and Dawn worked out an intimate and domestic life together. For others, the awareness of transsensual attraction comes long after the partnership is formed.

2004, Arlene Istar Lev, Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families, published 2007, →ISBN, page 310:

The dealer Rasmussen, who has previously rejected Gerda [Wegener]’s work, says of the paintings inspired by Lili [Elbe]: ‘These are different, I don’t know, there may be a market’.²⁷
²⁷ From his tone it may be a transsensual niche market that Rasmussen has in mind.

2016, Nicholas Chare, “Landscape into Portrait: Reflections on Lili Elbe and Trans* Aesthetics”, in Parallax, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 351, 362:

(rare) Related to (sexual) attraction to trans people.


Side X

(Christianity, LGBTQ) The position of Christians who believe that homosexuality and gay marriage are sinful and should be avoided, and that no true Christian can be homosexual.

Side A, Side B, Side X, Side Y (theological views)


Side B

(Christianity, LGBTQ) The position of Christians who believe that homosexuality is an intrinsic trait of some people, but that gay marriage is nevertheless sinful and should be avoided.


Side A

(Christianity, LGBTQ) The position of Christians who believe that homosexuality and gay marriage are blessed by God and should not be treated differently from traditional heterosexual marriage.


clobber passage

en-noun

clobber passage (plural clobber passages)

(Christianity, LGBTQ, informal) Any of a number of passages in the Bible that may be interpreted as clear condemnations of homosexuality: usually Genesis 19:1-38; Leviticus 18:22 and 20:13; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 1 Timothy 1:9-10; Jude 6-7; and Romans 1:25-27.


cisfemininity

However, the act of critiquing cisnormativity inevitably presents the critic with a limited set of alternatives: one could argue that transmasculinity is as normal and regular as cismasculinity, cisfemininity, or transfemininity; […]

2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered pages

But we do need to talk about ourselves: practicing "black trans-cis-terhood"— to use black transfeminist theorist Dora Santana's felicitous phrase—means understanding black queer cisfemininity on its own terms.

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

Shikyūkei and chitsukei epitomise these traits of new spiritual culture by locating the part of the body most intimately associated with cisfemininity, a woman's sexual and reproductive organs, as the cause and remedy for the events of her life.

2021, Ellen Mann, "'A Woman's Happiness is Decided by Her Uterus!': Post-Feminism, Neoliberalism and the Politics of the Female Body in Japanese 'Uterus-Type' and 'Vagina-Type' Spirituality", in Beyond Kawaii: Studying Japanese Femininities at Cambridge (Angelika Koch, Brigitte Steger, & Christopher Tso), page 73


cisfeminine

en-adj

cisfeminine (comparative more cisfeminine, superlative most cisfeminine)

more cisfeminine (comparative)
most cisfeminine (superlative)

At the beginning of Parachute_Silks's fem!Sherlock/fem!John story, "Categories," for example, a young female Sherlock tries to keep her university boyfriend, Sebastian, interested in her, first by pretending to fulfill traditional cisfeminine stereotypes: […]

2018, Ann K. McClellan, Sherlock's World: Fan Fiction and the Reimagining of BBC's Sherlock, page 129:

And it's in Scott's interview that the issue of transgender women not necessarily wanting to sound cisfeminine comes up.

2019, Jane Settler, Your Voice Speaks Volumes: It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It, page 171:

Drawing on NCAVP transgender homicide data, research has found that transfeminine Black and Latina individuals are at significantly higher risk for homicide than cisfeminine counterparts.

2020, Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz & Carolyn M. West, "The Intersections of Race and Immigration", in Transgender Intimate Partner Violence: A Comprehensive Introduction (Adam M. Messinger & Xavier L. Guadalupe-Diaz), page 143

Of or pertaining to female cisgender people or experiences.


cismasculinity

en-noun

cismasculinity (countable and uncountable, plural cismasculinities)

For 70 respondents (40 per cent), transmasculinity is unequivocally and qualitatively different from cismasculinity.

2016, matthew heinz, Entering Transmasculinity: The Inevitability of Discourse, unnumbered page

[…] what the production of a new, 'more disruptive' gender identity does is obscure the fact that cismasculinity and cisfemininity are themselves precarious, fluid and complicated.

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

In addition, drag performance is not limited to expressions of cismasculinity or cisfemininity.

2021, Meredith Heller, “Drag Performativity”, in Abbie E. Goldberg, Genny Beemyn, editors, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, unnumbered page:

The state or quality of being cismasculine.


cisgay

en-adj

cisgay (comparative more cisgay, superlative most cisgay)

more cisgay (comparative)
most cisgay (superlative)

Unfortunately, the film also falls into the trap of connecting a non-passing body with unavoidable consequences of violence in a scene in which [trans man] Lukas has to escape a rape attempt by one of his cis-gay colleagues.

2014, Wibke Straube, Trans Cinema and Its Exit Scapes: A Transfeminist Reading of Utiopian Sensibility and Gender Dissidence in Contemporary Film, page 127:

A nation is considered progressive insofar as its gay population has access to same-sex marriage, can serve in the military, and can adopt children – mainly the experience of white cisgay men in the United States (Puar, 2013, 337).

2017, Ralph Haddad, "Queering the Occupation: Settler-Colonial Sexualities in the Era of Homonationalism", Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research, Volume 3, Number 1, Summer 2017, pages 111-112

Thus, when I refer to phallocentrism in cisgay porn, I am being quite literal.

2017, Jian Neo Chen, “Trans Riot: Transmasculine of Colour Expressions and Embodiments in the Films of Christopher Lee”, in Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, volume 4, number 3, page 305:


femmeness

What is the appeal of femmeness since it doesn't have the obvious attractions of maleness, i.e. power and privilege, associated with it?

1989, Sheila Jeffreys, “Butch and Femme: Now and then”, in Not a Passing Phase: Reclaiming Lesbians in History 1840-1985, page 180:

Some femmes share heterosexual pasts, some pass through butchness before they arrive at femmeness, some move back and forth between boy identities and woman identities.

1998, Sally Munt, Cherry Smyth, Butch/femme: Inside Lesbian Gender, page 61:

I suggest that anyone who is queer and feels an affinity toward femmeness has a legitimate claim to it.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 113:


cisheterosexual

cisheterosexual (comparative more cisheterosexual, superlative most cisheterosexual)

more cisheterosexual (comparative)
most cisheterosexual (superlative)

A jock might be queer, but his performance of masculinity fits so comfortably within the cisheterosexual norms that he is assumed to be straight.

2019, Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze, page 162:

This is sadly common; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth experience trauma at higher rates than their cisheterosexual peers.

2020, Charlie McNabb, Queer Adolescence: Understanding the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual Youth, page 43:

In such an India, two things are of utmost priority: land and an heir (preferably a cisheterosexual, masculine male) to inherit it.

2020, Arunima Ray, “Thinking The Body, Figuring (The) Woman: Religion, caste, gender, and identity in literary representations”, in Goutam Karmakar, Nasima Islam, Sk Sagir Ali, editors, Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature: Traversing Resistance, Margins and Extremism, unnumbered page:


cishetero

cishetero (comparative more cishetero, superlative most cishetero)

more cishetero (comparative)
most cishetero (superlative)

There's also a lot of pressure to behave or conform to cishetero standards, but it's okay to be diverse, have differences in nuance.

2019, “Alyia”, in Eva A. Mendes, Meredith R. Maroney, editors, Gender Identity, Sexuality and Autism: Voices from Across the Spectrum, page 119:

This framework does not impact only cishetero men and women.

2020, Alex Iantaffi, Gender Trauma: Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma, page 112:

[…] while men can and should worship the cishetero fantasy of Playboy in which what it means to be a Man is to be effortlessly orgasmic and heterosexually dominating.

2021, Emily Anne Parker, Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body, page 64:


girlmoder

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

From girlmode + -er. By surface analysis, girl + -moder.

Coordinate term: boymoder

(transgender slang) One who is in girlmode (presenting as female regardless of gender identity).


girlmode

Coordinate term: boymode

Saw another cow-orker at a local big hoity-toity benefit gala. Just went up and tapped him on the shoulder. Of course I told two others who were with me to follow me if they wanted to see a real goodie. He was very shocked, but cool about it. :) Took him a few seconds to realize just who I was, even though he had seen me in girlmode at the office H'ween party.

2002 February 19, Annie, “Bumping into friends”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet):

I was driving home late from seeing my friends in girlmode, and got stuck in a massive traffic jam. The guy in the car next to me gets out to check the traffic and stretch. In the process he saw me and gave me that look, and kept glancing my way for a while.

2022, Anna Burns, “Gender, Traffic, and Other Such Annoyances”, in Laura Erickson-Schroth, editor, Trans Bodies, Trans Selves, 2nd edition, Oxford UP, →ISBN, page 189:

This is so relatable, but also kinda good for me sometimes? Like the one time I got catcalled in girlmode and it was actually weirdly euphoric. Ewphoria, as it were.

2023 September 25, Not-Jesus666, “Archived copy”, in Reddit, archived from the original on 2024-06-11:

(especially in transgender slang) The state of presenting as a girl or woman, regardless of one's actual gender identity.


Scorbus

Because of this, some commentators are suspicious that the appetite for a Scorbus romance was not unknown to those catering to it.

2016 August 16, Ilana Masad, “Harry Potter and the Possible Queerbaiting: why fans are mad over a lack of gay romance”, in The Guardian:

For Harry Potter fandom, the idea of a romantic relationship (or ship) between Albus/Scorpius or "Scorbus," the ship's portmanteau, is nothing new.

2018, Emily E. Roach, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Closet: Queerbaiting, Slash Shipping and The Cursed Child”, in Amanda Firestone, Leisa A. Clark, editors, Harry Potter and Convergence Culture: Essays on Fandom and the Expanding Potterverse, page 133:

For years, Scorbus fans had almost no canonical information with which to base their fan works, therefore fics varied wildly in characterisation.

2019, Beatriz Brito do Nascimento, "No heteros in this heterotopia: Harry Potter slash fanfiction as heterotopian space", dissertation submitted to the University of Porto, page 98

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Scorpius Malfoy and Albus Potter of the Harry Potter franchise.


horse's hoof

(UK, slang) A male homosexual, rhyming slang for poof.


street queen

(colloquial, dated, LGBTQ) Synonym of drag queen.


t-boy

You don't see flat T-girls. T-boys shouldn't have a v-shaped crotch.

2000 February 11, “Any females out there”, in alt.fashion.crossdressing (Usenet):

If you are a t-boy (a transgender boy) with a vagina of your own, there are many possibilities for vaginal sex; I am sure you don't need me to enlighten you on that subject.

2004, Lannie Rose, How to Change Your Sex: A Lighthearted Look at the Hardest Thing You'll Ever Do, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 45:

For the record, I've radared scores of t-girls (plus the odd t-boy) over the years.

2005, LadyLike Magazine, number 62, →ISSN, page 41, column 3:

Exogenous hormones close the growth plates earlier; so the prospective new teen T-boy, or teen T-girl should not use hormones at that point and allow their body to mature properly, but use a hormone blocker

2011, Red Jordan Arobateau, Days Before The Yoke, Lulu.com, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 133–134:

And if you happened to be a femmy T-boy, genderphobia ran rampant!

2017 May 22, Stephanie Chambers, Jane Farrow, Maureen Fitzgerald, Ed Jackson, John Lorinc, Tim McCaskell, Rebecca Sheffield, Tatum Taylor, Rahim Thawer, Any Other Way: How Toronto Got Queer, Coach House Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:


interphobic

interphobic (comparative more interphobic, superlative most interphobic)

more interphobic (comparative)
most interphobic (superlative)

[…] or the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to prevent the development of intersex foetuses, considered by some to be an example of interphobic eugenics (Orr, 2016).

2019, Jemma Tosh, The Body and Consent in Psychology, Psychiatry, and Medicine: A Therapeutic Rape Culture, unnumbered page:

As recent attacks on the transgender community have demonstrated, excluding the natural existence of sex and gender diversity supports interphobic and transphobic beliefs and policies.

2020, Hida Viloria, Maria Nieto, The Spectrum of Sex: The Science of Male, Female, and Intersex, page 127:

Conversely, homophobic, transphobic, and interphobic environments lead to violence against students and educational staff.

2021, Clifton Cortez, John Arzinos, & Christian De la Medina Soto, Equality of Opportunity for Sexual and Gender Minorities, unnumbered page

Relating to, characteristic of, or exhibiting interphobia.


SOGI

In addition, persecution from within the refugee community can make it imperative that LGBTQI Syrians hide their SOGI, which may limit their access to protection.

2018, Alex Odlum, “To Stay or to Go?: Decision-Making of LGBTQI Syrians in Mixed Migration Flows”, in Arzu Güler, Denise Venturi, Maryna Shevtsova, editors, LGBTI Asylum Seekers and Refugees from a Legal and Political Perspective: Persecution, Asylum and Integration, page 84:

There are diverse terminologies in use because individuals think about and experience their SOGI in various and diverse ways.

2019, Patrick Tomczyk, “Queer bodies and queer practices: The implications of queer theory for dramatherapy”, in Susan Hogan, editor, Arts Therapies and Gender Issues: International Perspectives on Research, page 111:

Asking patients their SOGI will enable you to provide relevant, specific, and compassionate care that is patient centered and grounded in appropriate language.

2020, Lynn S. Bickley, Bates' Guide To Physical Examination and History Taking, unnumbered page:

sexual orientation
sexual orientation#English

Initialism of sexual orientation and gender identity.


forced bi

A sexual fetish in which a heterosexual person (usually a man) is forced to perform homosexual sex acts.


third sex

The words of St. Paul in Cor. vii., of Our Lord in Mat. xix., concerning the third sex of the eunuchs, and of St. John in Apoc. xiv., […]

c. 1913, Hartmann Grisar (author), E. M. Lamond (translator), Luther (Complete) (2020 Library of Alexandria edition: →ISBN; Gutenberg)

In her book entitled Neither Man nor Woman, Serena Nanda gives a fascinating account of the hijras of India. Hijras are India's third sex.

2011, Richard Totman, The Third Sex: Kathoey: Thailand's Ladyboys, Souvenir Press Ltd, →ISBN:

A third gender, a category of people who are not male or female, or whose sexual roles, anatomy, or identities place them outside of the established male and female categories.


transmisia

From trans- + -misia, coined as an alternative to transphobia.

The problems in this country that feed white supremacy—racism, patriarchy, capitalism, colonialism, misogyny, homomisia, transmisia, Islammisia, xenomisia—are systemic.

2020 November 16, Данилов, “диклайн 2020 11”, in alt.russian.z1 (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:


homomisia

From homo- + -misia, coined as an alternative to homophobia.

Many have now expressed logomisia (dislike or hatred of a word) for the word 'homophobia', partly because the 'phobia' part suggests fear rather than hate (and also because that seems to dignify it as a psychiatric condition).
Taking a parallel from the word 'logomisia', then, one could propose 'homomisia' (or 'homophilomisia', rather unwieldy). However, like DvBrighoff's coinage 'erastophobia', it'll never catch on in the real world.

1996 May 26, Matthew Rabuzzi, “the word homophobia”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:

The argument that homophobia or homomisia was never part of the indigenous communities but was introduced by Europeans during the colonial era is an interesting assertion.

2010, Masiiwa Ragies Gunda, The Bible and Homosexuality in Zimbabwe:

[Jordin Manning:] Not everybody is gonna know that I go by they/them pronouns, but there are other people who just have an aversion, or what I have known to be called as, transmisia or homomisia (-misia means aversion,) as opposed to phobia, to not further stigmatize people who have legit phobias.

2018 Spring, Nico Mostella, “What Does It Mean to Be Black & Queer?”, in Uhuru Magazine, Kent, Ohio: Kent State University, page 11:

Any hateful content and bigotry will not be permitted. This includes trans-exclusionary content, racism, sexism, homomisia (hatred of homosexuality) or other sexualities (including asexuality), and so on.

2020 May 1, rachel...@gmail.com, “Lolehoth Community Láadan Zine”, in laadan (Usenet), retrieved 2022-01-30:


GAHT

(medicine) Abbreviation of gender-affirming hormone therapy or gender-affirming hormone treatment


birthing father

en-noun

birthing father (plural birthing fathers)

Riggs – who has served as an expert witness in a Queensland court case for a birthing father wanting to be recognised as such […] argues if someone is legally registered as a man, he should be able to claim the title “father”.

2020 October 9, “'Call me dad': Pregnant man takes birth drama to court”, in The Courier Mail:

For instance, compared with a cisgender nonbreastfeeding mother, breast cancer risk may be increased for a birthing father who feeds his infant artificial milk (due to the residual breast tissue and the lack of desire or ability to lactate), or decreased if he is able to partially lactate with the remaining mammary tissue.

2021, Melissa Bartick et al., "Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Position Statement and Guideline: Infant Feeding and Lactation-Related Language and Gender", Breastfeeding Medicine, Volume 16, Number 8 (link)

Mothers and birthing fathers usually have their postpartum checkup about six weeks after giving birth, Randall said, leaving them days or a few weeks to get care before their insurance lapses.

2021, Levi Pulkkinen, "2 Million Washingtonians Rely On A Medicaid System That’s Driving Away Doctors And Dropping New Mothers", InvestigateWest, 12 February 2021 (link)

(neologism) A trans man who has given birth to a child.


gestational father

gestational father (plural gestational fathers)

He [Cary Gabriel Costello] is the gestational father of a teenaged child, and is married to an intersex woman who was assigned male at birth—musician and technophile Aubrey Schaefer.

2016, “List of Contributors”, in Stefan Horlacher, editor, Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives, page xi:

Most of the gestational fathers I talked to had already rejected gender norms, and it was this rejection that led them to imagine becoming gestational fathers in the first place.

2019, Laura V. Heston, "Queering Kinship: LGBTQ Parents And The Creation Of Real Utopias", dissertation submitted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, page 180

He [Freddy McConnell] has publicized himself as a gestational father, for instance in a documentary film “Seahorse” (an upright-swimming fish, the male of which has a brood pouch for gestating its young).

2020 October, Bernard M. Dickens, “Transsexuality: Legal and ethical challenges”, in International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume 151, number 1, page 165:


transfolks

Gentrification often starts with the artists, revolutionaries, freaks, transfolks, and queers (what I would call my people) moving into poor neighborhoods inhabited by people of color.

2014, Inga Muscio, Autobiography of a Blue-eyed Devil:

(informal) Synonym of transfolk (“transgender people”)


theyfriend

From they + friend, modeled after girlfriend and boyfriend.

She'd never had a boyfriend or girlfriend or theyfriend, not in her entire life.

2019 May 28, Talia Hibbert, The Roommate Risk, Tantor Media, Incorporated, →ISBN:

2021 October 21, Skeeter, “Janithor is my non-binary theyfriend”, in alt.slack (Usenet):

'Do you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend or a theyfriend?'

2022 January 18, Laura Silverman, Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between, Penguin Young Readers Group, →ISBN, page 196:

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


lesbiandom

From lesbian + -dom (suffix forming nouns denoting conditions or states).

suffix

So I moved on to college and many, many more firsts, another Becky (that's right, but with a "Y" this time ), and incredibly true adventures of lesbiandom. But I'll never forget that first kiss.

2003, Karen X. Tulchinsky, editor, Hot & Bothered 4: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire, Vancouver, B.C.: Arsenal Pulp Press, →ISBN, page 60:

Skeptics might say her declared lesbiandom made her more desirable to me.

2007, Glamour, volume 105, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 130:

Even his final salvos were somewhat listless, as if he were delivering them out of obligation rather than true depth of feeling. “In ten years, I'll bet you two will have made the full transition to lesbiandom. I predict cats,” was one, […]

2015 March 10, Hanya Yanagihara, chapter 1, in A Little Life […], New York, N.Y., London: Doubleday, →ISBN, part V (The Happy Years), page 465:

The quality or state of being a lesbian.


MTFTM

[…] moreover another ex Tg [transgender] (mtf [male-to-female]) that now reverted to m [male] (MtFtM) and now is a monk, and considers himself still TG [transgender]. !!!^([sic])

1996 November 8, Helena Velena <helena@iol.it>, “Re: Transgender Nun”, in alt.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-22, message-ID <328358DF.402@iol.it>:

SRS [sex reassgnment surgery] is under attack in australia^([sic]) at the moment, Alan Finch an umm MTFTM seems to be trying to stir up trouble, […]

2004 June 4, Danielle <danika_jane@ihug.com.au>, “Re: FYI - Australia”, in alt.support.srs (Usenet), retrieved 2022-02-22, message-ID <c9rgih$a5v$1@lust.ihug.co.nz>:

Initialism of male-to-female-to-male, a male detransitioner.


FTMTF

Probably not, guess imma have to detransition now since I’m not hot enough. FtMtF.😂

2018 January 29, HaJaaay_ [username], Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-02-24:

Initialism of female-to-male-to-female, a female detransitioner.


gock

Men's dicks just don't cut it for me anymore; I need some gock.

Is there a term like bussy except for girlcock? Gock?

2021 March 13, anonymous author, 4chan, /lgbt/:

gock lovers rise up

2021 September 9, @tsunderebutt, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-20:

when you can't tell if that's a gock or a glock in her pants but either way you wanna stuff it down your throat and swallow a load

2022 January 10, @oncloud_e, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-20:

"will you teach me how to play magic 🥺" is a very transparent ploy for gock, but a very effective one

2022 February 6, @twinkofswords, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-20:

i have seen gocks you people wouldn't believe

2022 August 29, @faecuddlebug, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-12-20:

(chiefly transgender slang, vulgar) The penis of a trans woman.


gay man

"A gay man loves and desires other men, and a lesbian desires and loves other women," explains Sky Gilbert, a drag queen. "This defines the existential state of being gay."

2021, Andrew Sullivan, Out on a Limb, edition 1, page 482:

Consequently, gay men are presented with many challenges that prevent them from seeking seeking out their true identities or finding their true selves. For some, identifying as a gay man is not a clear or easy decision.

2014, Michael M. Kocet, Counseling Gay Men, Adolescents, and Boys, Taylor & Francis:

A homosexual man. (This entry is a translation hub.)

Many of these hyponyms are also used generally for any gay person

Because oral sex deprecation and anti-gay bias both have long histories among humans

many of the words for "contemptible person" come from literal terms for anyone who performs oral sex or performs anal sex; they are listed at Thesaurus:jerk


gendertrash

From gender + trash. The first known use was as the title of a transgender-interest zine published out of Toronto from 1993-1995. The first attested use as an independent word was in two 1995 magazine articles by Riki Wilchins.

From this viewpoint, transgendered bodies and genders are that outside; and it is precisely by discarding us as “gendertrash” if you will, by stigmatizing us or delegitimating us off the grid as merely “aberrant” or “deviant” or (Virginia Prince here) “defective” or “pathological,” which enables the binary grid to continue to appear as immaculate, uncontaminated, and “natural.”

1995, Riki Wilchins, "What's In A Name: The Politics of Gender Speak", Transgender Tapestry, Winter 1995, page 47

This not only serves no purpose and makes *you* look like an ugly person, it also […] lends legitimacy to the kind of thinking that leads the bigots to insist that we're *all* gendertrash.

1998 November 10, Dale Elizabeth, “Re: What Changing One's Sex Really Means....”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet):

In the most straightforward way, [Dorothy] Allison was responding to the typical question by a horrified liberal to gendertrash who likes rough trade: Honey, I got nothin' to hide.

2008, Stephanie Schroeder, “Queer Parents: An Oxymoron? Or Just Moronic?”, in Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, editor, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, unnumbered page:

(derogatory or humorous) People of gender identities or gender expressions not represented by the gender binary and/or conventional conceptions of gender.


gender incongruence

A condition in which the gender identity of a person does not align with the gender assigned at birth.


Elsanna

Ultimately, Elsanna femslash considers the repressive power of sexual taboo insofar as it can reject that power, electing instead, as Elsa's character sings in the film's coming-out scene par excellence, to "let it go."

2019, Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, “Introduction: Entering the Fringe”, in Sara K. Howe, Susan E. Cook, editors, Representing Kink: Fringe Sexuality and Textuality in Literature, Digital Narrative, and Popular Culture, page 11:

Fans of the show Supernatural have created digitally manipulated images of its two male leads, the Wincester brothers, in bed together (aka “Wincest”), and fan-fiction stemming from the popular children’s film Frozen (2013) casts the two sisters, Elsa and Anna, as lovers (aka “Elsanna”).

2019, Lara Karaian, “Relative Lust: Accidental Incest’s Affective and Legal Resonances”, in Law, Culture and the Humanities, volume 15, number 3, pages 8–9:

While other male/male fan pairings were referred to more often than elsanna, it was the first and only female/female pairing that I came across during my search.

2021, Victor Larsen, "'It Makes Me, A Minor, Uncomfortable': Media and Morality In Anti-Shippers' Policing of Online Fandom", thesis submitted to Ghent University, page 43

(fandom slang) The incestuous ship of the fictional sisters Elsa and Anna from the Frozen franchise.


neuroqueerness

For Rekers and Lovaas, the etiologies of childhood gender variance or autism were insignificant, for they believed that modifying social conditions by means of behavioral control would mask any traces of neuroqueerness.

2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:

Neuroqueer(ness) represents an array of relationships between neurology and queerness including being both neurodivergent and queer, actively choosing to embody one’s neurodivergence, or queering ones cognitive processes (Walker, 2015).

2019, Robin Roscigno, “Neuroqueerness as Fugitive Practice: Reading Against the Grain of Applied Behavioral Analysis Scholarship”, in Educational Studies: A Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, volume 55, number 4, page 406:

Neuroqueerness unsettles deficit discourses of autism and dis/ability, which reduce the storying of varied individual experiences into a single clinical narrative.

2020, Monica C. Kleekamp, “'No! Turn the Pages!': Repositioning Neuroqueer Literacies”, in Journal of Literary Research, volume 52, number 2, page 115:

(neologism) The state or quality of being neuroqueer.


cripqueer

The intent of this chapter, therefore, is to encourage awareness and pride in cripqueer sexuality; […]

2006, Santiago Solis, “Cripqueers in the Land of Make Believe”, in Birgit Richard, Christine Quail, Priya Parmar, Shirley R. Steinberg, editors, Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia, page 251:

Similarly, writing on the ways in which crip and queer identities inform one another onstage, Carrie Sandahl argues, "Cripqueer artists redefine gender and sexuality by cripping and queering both. […]

2012, Ryan Claycomb, Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage, page 80:

Here and throughout F**k the Disabled Walloch deploys a cripqueer consciousness and playful performativity in order to undermine dominant social and political relations among queers, crips and 'normals'.

2016, Todd R. Ramlow, “Queering, Cripping”, in Michael O'Rourke, Noreen Giffney, editors, The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory, page 139:


neuroqueer

en-adj

neuroqueer (comparative more neuroqueer, superlative most neuroqueer)

more neuroqueer (comparative)
most neuroqueer (superlative)

Whether discussed in clinical journals or in media accounts, ABA purports to change neural pathways, rewire neuroqueer brains, and ford synapses.

2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, page 123:

Neuroqueer perspectives challenge typical understandings of identity categories through disidentification processes. A neuroqueer project not only questions typical conceptions of gender but also pivots away from normative gender categories altogether.

2019 February, Justine E. Enger, “'The Disability Rights Community Was Never Mine': Neuroqueer Disidentification”, in Gender & Society, volume 33, number 1, page 124:

My conceptualization of neuroqueer technoscience is also strongly influenced by 3 my own experiences as a multiply neurodivergent queer femme.

2022, Jessica Sage Rauchberg, “Imagining a Neuroqueer Technoscience”, in Studies in Social Justice, volume 16, number 2, page 372:

(neologism) Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to the intersection of neurodivergence and queerness, particularly autism and LGBT identities.


autigender

autigender (comparative more autigender, superlative most autigender)

more autigender (comparative)
most autigender (superlative)

Specifically, nonbinary and autigender people were more likely to use gender-neutral terms like “kid” or “person” instead of gendered terms like “boy” or “man.”

2021, Kelly L. Coburn, "Spoken Narratives by Autistic Adults of Under-Represented Genders", dissertation submitted to Pennsylvania State University, pages 123-124

Yeah...I'm autistic and my experience of my gender is linked to my experience of autism, and so I identify as autigender.

2021, Sabrina Symington, Coming Out, Again: Transition Stories, unnumbered page:

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 autism.


queercrip

Non-devotee versions of such imagery might be easier to access for amputees involved in queercrip communities.

2012, Robert McRuer, Anna Mollow, Sex and Disability, page 353:

In showing up and becoming visible as queercrip, we intentionally shift the frame of desirability.

2020, Courtney Andree, “Sex, Love and Disability on Screen”, in Linda Mona, Russell Shuttleworth, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality, unnumbered page:

Second, by intentionally eliciting the shaming stare, Cubacub positions the queercrip body as an active agent rather than a passive object of the gaze.

2022, Timothy Oleksiak, “On Taking The Bottom's Stance, Or Not Your Typical Submissive”, in Jacqueline Rhodes, Jonathan Alexander, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Queer Rhetoric, unnumbered page:

Belonging to, characteristic of, or related to both the disabled and LGBT communities.


queercrip

While I did not know other queer crips, at least I was not alone. Eventually I began to meet and network with other like-bodied men.

2014, Bob Guter, John R. Killacky, Queer Crips: Disabled Gay Men and Their Stories, unnumbered page:

[…] as with Piepzna-Samarasinha's imagined collective of queercrips fucking themselves/ourselves, those working along the interstices of queer disability studies and crip theory are conjuring sideways relations and pleasures.

2020, Alison Kafer, “Queer Disability Studies”, in Siobhan B. Somerville, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies, page 103:

Claiming control over the process of making porn not only addresses the denial of agency queercrips so often experience but also powerfully speaks back to narratives of disposability and consumption.

2020, anonymous, quoted in Courtney Andree, "Sex, Love and Disability on Screen", in The Routledge Handbook of Disability and Sexuality (eds. Linda Mona & Russell Shuttleworth), unnumbered page

One who belongs to both the disabled and LGBT communities.


queernormativity

The day of the actual parade is very special due to the fact that for a period of time heteronormativity is not the rule of public space and "queernormativity" takes over.

2001, Meredith Risk, Paul Moore, editors, Culture of Cities: Under Construction, page 9:

As I attentively plan my upcoming wedding, I can't help but wonder, how might refusing to get married, just to remain radically queer, be understood as queernormativity – the dominant, queer non-status-quo?

2014, Hillery Glasby, “Let Me Queer My Throat: Queer Rhetorics of Negotiation: Marriage Equality and Homonormativity”, in Brian Bailie, Steve Parks, editors, Best of the Independent Journals in Rhetoric and Composition 2014, page 45:

Queer spaces often give rise to a “queernormativity” premised on an “alternative respectability” that dictates how to be the “right” kind of queer.

2020, Ellen Lamont, The Mating Game: How Gender Still Shapes How We Date, page 113:

Normalization of queer people, identities, and relationships, especially in a manner that centers or privileges some forms of queerness over others.


queernormative

queernormative (comparative more queernormative, superlative most queernormative)

more queernormative (comparative)
most queernormative (superlative)

If queernormative spaces keep people constantly on guard, fearful others will attack them for a wrong move, then those spaces will be alienating, even for those who stay within them.

2017, Jason Orne, Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago, page 233:

Apart from rediscovering/decolonising the queernormative heritage of the Indian Indigenous past, […]

2020, Kaustav Chakraborty, Queering Tribal Folktales from East and Northeast India, page ix:

Defying this, Western queer culture actively defuses from cisnormative values, yet in so doing may also fuse with their new, queernormative value constructs.

2020, Alex Stitt, ACT for Gender Identity: The Comprehensive Guide, page 202:

Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting queernormativity.


queerantagonism

Sie [Leslie Feinberg] was forced to move out and seek work as an adolescent, due to hir family's queerantagonism.

2017, Charlie McNabb, Nonbinary Gender Identities: History, Culture, Resources, page 77:

In other words, ableism is to heterosexism what disableism is to queerantagonism, and both terms convey valuable linguistic interpretation of our lived experiences.

2017, Lydia X. Z. Brown, quoted in "Intersectionality: A dialogue with Devonya N. Havis and Lydia X. Z. Brown", in Jennifer Seuro, Addressing Ableism: Philosophical Questions Via Disability Studies, page 48

The history and institutionalization of Jotería Studies is rooted in the resistance of patriarchy, heteronormativity, queerantagonism, and transantagonism by queer Latinx/a/o scholars and activists (Alvarez Jr. & Estrada, 2019).

2021, Lindsay Pérez Huber, “Testimonio As A Critical Race Feminist Methodology In Higher Education”, in Cristobal Salinas Jr, Jesus Cisneros, Nichole M. Garcia, editors, Studying Latinx/a/o Students in Higher Education: A Critical Analysis of Concepts, Theory, and Methodologies, unnumbered page:


tenderqueer

From tender + queer, as a play on genderqueer.

Carrying your comfort with you is protection for the sweetly sensitive bull. You're a tenderqueer of few words, and you always make them count.

2016, Sally Mulligan, "Turn A Look: Taurus", PQ Monthly, April/May 2016, page 21

Sad Boi extraordinaire, reproductive justice fighter and unabashed tenderqueer—Fallon Simard is a rare voice within Indigenous art.

2017, Lindsay Nixon, "Fallon Simard – Monetized, But Agential, Bodies in Ghost Worlds", Esse, Number 91, Fall 2017, page 70

Tenderqueers are especially adept at using the watery language of therapy as a means to get out of most things. They’ll ghost you for three weeks then, when you call them out on it, will reply something like, “Your negative energy is affecting my ability to heal from past life trauma.”

2020 January 24, Daisy Jones, “Introducing: The Tenderqueer, the Softboi of the Queer Community”, in Vice:

(slang, often derogatory) An LGBT+ person with a gentle, sensitive, openly emotional disposition, particularly when cultivated as an insincere or self-serving affectation.


superqueero

[…] honoring Black and Indigenous TLGBQIA+ "superqueeroes" who have made profound contributions to the entire rainbow tribe and ally community.

2018 July 21, Kin Folkz, “From Stonewall to Decades of TLGBQIA+ Activism: Superqueeroe Miss 'Mama' Major Griffin-Gracy”, in San Francisco Bay Times, page 23:

Seth wasn't Boner Boy, and Nick wasn't the rough-and-tumble oil worker, but Nick would be damned if he wasn't going to one day get that superqueero penis.

2021, TJ Klune, Flash Fire, unnumbered page:

As your style superqueero, my rainbow cape and mask are here to help!

2021, Bakhtiar Yaqub, “What to wear to Pride”, in VanPride Magazine, page 14:


hermafrodite

Compare Dutch hermafrodiet, Portuguese hermafrodita, and Spanish hermafrodita.

To me anyone presenting herself as female, is a female (TS/TV or anything else). Anyone presenting himself as male is a male (idem), anyone presenting him/herself as anything inbetween^([sic]) is considered hermafrodite/androgyn.^([sic]) It's a question of social role and a litlle^([sic]) tact, not genotype and/or fenotype.^([sic]) What would you call a XY-woman, an XX-man or a biological hermafrodite (they *do* exist)? A woman who has undergone hysterectomy or a castrated man ?

1997 May 18, Renate Meijer, “Who are we ?”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

I have only the one body, in which I feel comfortable, but by rights, I should be a hermafrodite.

2000 January 20, Taemon, “Introduction”, in soc.support.transgendered (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

> Did you know that males of C. elegans masturbate?
Do these little perverts know what they are doing or they are just responding to hormonal stimulus when they become sexually mature? Some C. elegans are hermafrodites and capable of self-fertilization. Perhaps the males don't "know" they are not hermafrodites and are simply trying to fertilize themselves.

2000 January 24, Joao Jose Marques, “GM Rice”, in sci.agriculture (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

But, definetly,^([sic]) a man is one force and woman the other one. When they are in the sexual intercouse,^([sic]) right in that moment they form, one more time , the primitive hermafrodite, with the power of creation a new life (a baby) and also the power of regenerating themselves through Sexual Magic.

2000 August 1, Luis Castillo, “Masturbation & Meditation”, in alt.magick.tantra (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

Some twenty years ago I read a SF book about 4 people (2 men, 2 women) who were abducted and dropped on another planet. After several adventures they discover that their kidnappers (hermafrodites, with faces that look like the Sphinx) again offer them a new garden of eden. The book made quite an impression on me and I would like to read it again, however I lost the book and also cannot remember the title. The dutch title was (translated in english) "Cosmic Experiment".

2002 April 1, Rogier Schaaf, “Searching...”, in uk.people.sf-fans (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-11:

(non-native speakers' English) Misspelling of hermaphrodite.


squirrel friend

en-noun

squirrel friend (plural squirrel friends)

A pun on "hiding nuts" (i.e., testicles).

god has black friends and gay friends and squirrel friends. god has sex & pardons herself. god runs naked in the rain and pees in public. god doesn't have hair or a gender.

2020, skitzy sandcastle, bubbles sandcastle, drag queen in the white house:

The news that the 13th series of the US show and the second series of the UK edition would be streaming simultaneously felt heaven-sent; a personalised, hand-delivered care package sent from RuPaul Charles to his squirrel friends during their time of need.

2021 February 11, Yomi Adegoke, “'No queen is a loser': why RuPaul's Drag Race is a tender balm in lockdown”, in The Guardian:

Four queens (or top four “squirrel friends,” as RuPaul often addresses them) entered the finale: Symone, the Faulkner County queen who moved to L.A. as a part of fashion/culture/media braintrust House of Avalon — a self-described gay street gang of Arkansans living in Los Angeles; Rose, a stunningly polished dancer, actor and singer with a smile for days; Kandy Muse, a fearless, fiery Dominican/Brooklyn doll; Gottmik, a wildly talented fashion designer, makeup artist and self-fashioned comedian who was also the first trans man to compete in “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

2021 April 23, Stephanie Smittle, “Conway native Symone wins ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’”, in Arkansas Times:

Tia Kofi and her squirrel friends reveal what went on behind the scenes and what they really think of each other!

2021, Christian Guiltenane, RuPaul’s Drag Race UK: The Official Companion:

We can’t wait for our UK squirrel friends to be able to watch along each week, with new episodes of All Stars and Untucked streaming exclusively on WOW Presents Plus.

2022 May, Sam Damshenas, “All Stars 7: Watch the trailer for Drag Race’s first ever winners’ season”, in Gay Times:

The rumors are true. After months of speculation, Squirrel Friends worldwide got confirmation regarding the next season of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars — featuring the previous winners of the reality competition series.

2022 May 2, Julia Dzurillay, “The Vivienne Says She Forged Lifelong Friendships With Her ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars 7’ Sisters”, in Showbiz Cheat Sheet:

(LGBTQ, uncommon) A friend or associate who is also a drag queen.


gender diverse

en-adj

gender diverse (comparative more gender diverse, superlative most gender diverse)

more gender diverse (comparative)
most gender diverse (superlative)

As more and more gender-diverse people come out, cisgender people begin to recognize that gender-diverse persons are their friends, neighbors, family members, and coworkers. Once they are able to put a human face on the issue,[…]

2018 December 1, Vanessa Sheridan, Transgender in the Workplace: The Complete Guide to the New Authenticity for Employers and Gender-Diverse Professionals, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 41:

Having a gender identity, role, or expression that differs from the cultural norms prescribed for one's assigned sex.

irahuhua

having a gender identity etc differing from assigned sex


cisqueer

cisqueer (comparative more cisqueer, superlative most cisqueer)

more cisqueer (comparative)
most cisqueer (superlative)

Nelson identifies as a cisqueer female and uses the Preferred Gender Pronouns (PGP) they, them and theirs.

2015, Rebecca Huff, "Gender identity at Miami", The Miami Student (Miami University, Oxford, OH), page 3

Anastasia M. Collins is a cisqueer mixed woman of color and the research and instruction librarian for children’s literature and social work at Simmons College, […]

2018, Anastasia M. Collins, "Language, Power, and Oppression in the LIS Diversity Void", Library Trends, Volume 67, Number 1, Summer 2018, page 51

[…] he is cisqueer, grew up in New York City, and is a first-generation Maltese American.

2019, Tiffany DeJaynes & Christopher Curmi-Hall, "Transforming School Hallways Through Critical Inquiry: Multimodal Literacies for Civic Engagement", Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Volume 63, Issue 3, November/December 2019


BakuDeku

Blend of Bakugou (爆豪) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Katsuki Bakugou and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


KiriDeku

Blend of Kirishima (切島) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Eijirou Kirishima and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.

List of My Hero Academia characters#Class 1-A students


ShinDeku

Blend of Shinsou (心操) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Hitoshi Shinsou and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


TodoDeku

Blend of [Shouto] Todoroki (轟) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Shouto Todoroki and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


KamiDeku

Blend of Kaminari (上鳴) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Denki Kaminari and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


IidaDeku

Blend of Iida (飯田) and Deku (でく, alternate kun'yomi reading of 出久 Izuku, homophonous with 木偶).

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Tenya Iida and Izuku "Deku" Midoriya from the My Hero Academia series.


xgender

I am a straight white male XGender Dresser seeking understanding Female of any race or age!

1995 March 7, Larry Hasha, “Male XDresser ISO Female!”, in alt.personals (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

I request your opinions about matching bi-sexual orientation and bi-genderable expression. One, from the subject being bi-bi (experiencies?) and from the bi-bi-friend (testimonies?).
Since x-gender is addmitedly independent of sexual orientation, I just wonder if us/they can find more openness into the bi-community.

1996 September 13, Rubén Om-line, “X-gender & bi's”, in soc.bi (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

I said X usually represents the unknown,key word usually- not always.example Malcom X. Also the most basic algebra-middle school level- starts representing unknown with x. In the case of xmitter, it is short for trans, that is another common use of X, replacing trans, cross or across. example RR Xing, Xatlantic flight, Xgender, I have seen all of these used and more.

2004 February 12, bob11, “CHRISTIANS: Vote Republican November 2, 2004!”, in misc.invest.stocks (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

Starting F on M website and looking for asses to train. She loves watching her strap-on plunge into a tight hole. Seeking men, women, couples, xgender more than welcome.

2007 October 10, blackblow...@gmail.com, “317 / Indy / Strap-on Party”, in alt.personals.bondage.gay (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-18:

Abbreviation of transgender or crossgender.


Lumity

Lumity isn't the only queer couple confirmed in the lastest episode!

2021 August 3, Mey Rude, “Disney's The Owl House Just Made Lumity's Relationship Official”, in Out:

The most popular and well-known aspect of this in The Owl House is Lumity, or the bond between Luz and Amity.

2021 September 10, Emma Tong, “Review of the second season of The Owl House”, in The Stute, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, page 10:

Fans wait eagerly for the next episode excited to see more Lumity and to see how the story will progress despite the shortened season.

2022, Tiffany Wells, "The Gay Agenda: Being Accepted in Children's Media", thesis submitted to Georgia Southern University, page 36

(fandom slang) The ship of characters Luz Noceda and Amity Blight from the animated television series The Owl House.


Davydov procedure

en-noun

Davydov procedure (plural Davydov procedures)

Named after Russian gynecologist S. N. Davydov, who popularized the procedure in the 1960s.

named-after

(surgery) A form of vaginoplasty in which the patient's peritoneum is used to construct a neovagina or to lengthen an abnormally short vagina.


circuit queen

(LGBTQ) A gay man who frequents circuit parties.


recipromantic

en-adj

recipromantic (comparative more recipromantic, superlative most recipromantic)

more recipromantic (comparative)
most recipromantic (superlative)

(Example: If you are recipromantic, you might form crushes on people whom you discover have a crush on you.)

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

In terms of attraction, Hyourin is asexual, idemromantic, and recipromantic.

2016, Christine Feraday, "For Lack of a Better Word: Neo-Identities in Non-Cisgender, Non-Straight Communities on Tumblr", thesis submitted to Ryerson University, page 54

Lily who is white, gray-ace, recipromantic, and nonbinary said “[in the] classes I have [it] doesn’t normally come up, ‘cause it’s all science. I just try to stay on topic to get the work done.”

2018, Elijah G. Stucki, "Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 114

(neologism) Experiencing romantic attraction only to people known to reciprocate one's feelings.


WTFromantic

WTFromantic (comparative more WTFromantic, superlative most WTFromantic)

more WTFromantic (comparative)
most WTFromantic (superlative)

Lee, who is white, asexual, wtfromantic, agender, and has disabilities said that “resilience [is]...showing love for yourself.”

2018, Elijah G. Stucki, "Compulsory Sexuality and Amatonormativity in Higher Education: A Photovoice Study with Asexual and Aromantic Students", thesis submitted to Oregon State University, page 128

Others yet find it core to their identities to provide thick description around what it means to experience platonic attraction (or, in some cases, queerplatonic or wtf'''romantic attractions).

2018, M. Remi Yergeau, Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness, unnumbered page:

For example, Ayelet (18, gray-a, biromantic and WTFromantic) says she sees no difference between the two, aside from the expectation for exclusivity in romance.

2020, Gaia Steinberg, "The Relational Matrix: Sexuality, Romance and Coupledom in the Lives of Asexual Individuals", thesis submitted to The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, page 47

(vulgar, humorous, neologism) Unable to distinguish romantic attraction from platonic attraction in oneself.


quoiromantic

quoiromantic (comparative more quoiromantic, superlative most quoiromantic)

more quoiromantic (comparative)
most quoiromantic (superlative)

Learned borrowing from French quoi (“what”) + romantic. Coined as a non-vulgar synonym of WTFromantic.

lbor

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

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

For a while, I thought I might be quoiromantic because of the frustration and confusion I felt about how subjective romantic attraction is.

2018, Christina Lang, Intimacy and Desire Through the Lens of an Aro-Ace Woman of Color, Bates College, page 69:

These participants identified on the asexual spectrum, including identities such as asexual (Miranda), demisexual (Desi), and quoiromantic (Jackie).

2018 May 30 – June 30, Ryan A. Miller, “Toward Intersectional Identity Perspectives on Disability and LGBTQ Identities in Higher Education”, in Journal of College Student Development, volume 59, number 3:

(rare, neologism) Unable to distinguish romantic attraction from platonic attraction in oneself.


QTBIPOC

Initialism of queer or/and trans black, indigenous, or/and (other) person/people of color.


rainbow washing

In reference to the rainbow flag, and from terms like whitewashing and pinkwashing.

In a world where gay politics are becoming more visible transnationally and globally, rainbow washing serves to paint a picture of a false reality […]

2016, Abbie E. Goldberg, The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies, page 759:

I'd like to also include rainbow washing. This type of marketing gymnastics occurs every Pride month when corporations unveil new rainbow promotions, decorations, and products for their brand.

2022, Britt Hawthorne, Raising Antiracist Children: A Practical Parenting Guide, page 155:

(LGBTQ) The practice of a company presenting itself as gay-friendly to improve its brand image.


Progress Pride flag

en-noun

Progress Pride flag (plural Progress Pride flags)

LGBT advocates in San Francisco would like to see the Progress Pride flag hoisted on the giant flagpole above the Castro Muni Station.

2020, Matthew S. Bajko & John Ferrannini, "Push afloat to see cities fly diverse Pride flags", Bay Area Reporter, 25 June 2020 - 1 July 2020, page 14

And in another first, we all stood in the early evening sun under the Progress Pride flag, with its incorporated trans flag, having been raised just that morning thanks to gay city officials.

2022, Melody Maia Monet, "Trans of Thought", Watermark (Orlando, FL), 24 June 2021 - 7 July 2021, page 18

Delta is flying the Progress Pride ﬂag in front of City Hall for the month of June in solidarity with our LGBTQ2S+ community and continues to be an ally every day.

2022 June 2, “Supporting Delta Pride!”, in Delta Optimist, BC: Delta, page A4:

(LGBTQ) A variant of the rainbow flag consisting of the original six horizontal bars with the addition of a large chevron to the hoist featuring three stripes of white, pink, and blue on the inside (the colors of the transgender pride flag) and two stripes of brown and black on the outside (representing POC members of the LGBT community.)


pride flag

Later that week, a group of smiling Czechs appeared on the cover of the Prague Post, with one of the supporters waving a pride flag over his head.

1999, David Andrusia, Frommer's Gay & Lesbian Europe, page 18:

Eve thought her church should fly a pride flag, the rainbow flag that has been a symbol of gay pride for decades.

2008, Sarah Sentilles, A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit, page 203:

Premier Brad Wall confirmed on Saturday that the pride flag would fly at the [Saskatchewan] legislature in a show of solidarity with LGBT activists in Russia.

2014 February 10, Marco Vigliotti, “Province shows its Olympic pride”, in Metro Saskatoon, page 1:

(LGBTQ) The original rainbow flag or variants of it.

"It will be such an honor to ride with Woody [Glen] through the streets of Boston — wearing tiaras, of course — with the 45-foot bi pride ﬂag and dozens of bi community members behind us,” [Ellyn] Ruthstrom says.

2016, Faith Cheltenham, "The Case for Bisexuals at Pride", Mirror, Summer 2015, page 26

The Trans Equality Society of Alberta (TESA) celebrated Alberta's first-ever formal raising of a trans pride flag at the Alberta Legislature […]

2016, Trent Wilkie, "Trans Flag Raised At Leg", in "News Roundup", Vue Weekly, 24 November 2016 - 30 November 2016, page 5

During the halftime show, students carried eight different pride flags onto the field, representing the asexual, transgender, nonbinary, intersex, gay, lesbian, bisexual and pansexual communities […]

2019 September 25, Amy Qin, “Mob Lets Pride Fly In Baylor Show”, in The Rice Thresher, Rice University, Houston, TX, page 1:

(LGBTQ) Any flag intended to represent a specific subset of the LGBT+ community.


TGD

For quotations using this term, see Citations:TGD.

Acronym of transgender and/or gender diverse.


AGAB

The signup form on their website did not have a non-binary option, so I had to select my AGAB instead.

(LGBTQ) Initialism of assigned gender at birth.


undocuqueer

Unzueta’s scheduled testimony showed that from early-on in undocumented immigrant reform and protest, undocuqueers were part of the conversation.

2021 August 15, Sydney Smith, “Undocumented And Queer: Solutions To Undocuqueer Stress”, in Supportiv:

undocumented immigrant
undocumented immigrant


guevedoce

From Spanish güevedoce, from Dominican Spanish güevos a los doce (“testicles at twelve”).

(medicine, endocrinology) In the Dominican Republic, a person born with male gonads, but who appears to have female external genitalia, as a result of a 5-alpha-reductase deficiency.


genderspecial

(slang, derogatory, neologism) A person who affects an unusual or marginalized gender identity for perceived social benefit.


stage gay

(fandom slang) On-stage homoerotic (male) behavior; often with the implication that it is insincere.


Mumsnut

Blend of Mumsnet + nut (“a crazy person”).

blend

Here’s some folks who actually know what they’re talking about, you don’t get that on Mumsnut.

2018 July 25, Hetty Spoon (@Henriettaspoon), Twitter:

Oh, and in the light of the current mumsnut discussion... I block all transphobes. Just sayin'.

2019 October 12, Annie Wallace (@anniewallace), Twitter:

Mumsnut is melting down, tee hee. "EVEN WPUK", lol

2021 March 24, Stephanie Anne Calvert (@StephAcalvert), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.


Prosecco Stormfront

From Prosecco, a wine varietal, and Stormfront, a white supremacist website, the implication being that Mumsnet has become a radicalisation pipeline for upper-middle-class mothers (sometimes referred to pejoratively as wine moms).

Prosecco Stormfront have worked themselves up into a transphobic frenzy of utter vileness now.

2019 November 27, Banquo's Ghost (@_banquos_ghost_), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront aka Mumsnet had to shut down the Graham Linehan thread to moderate it because of the sheer influx of new accounts trolling everyone.

2020 June 27, Gemma Stone (@notCursedE), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront slagging off another cis woman, all because she doesn’t agree with their obsessive transphobic hate-cult! 🙄😖

2022 May 20, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:


radblr

Radblr is saturated with women calling themselves radical feminists who have the barest grasp on what that phrase means.

2019 August 17, Radfem Black (@RadfemBlack), Twitter:

My only contribution to radblr is occasional snide commentary, and they're not even particularly funny. Sorry y'all UwU

2020 October 27, normieenvy (@normieenvy), Twitter:

tho I did discover radblr in my late teens/early 20s and that was really eye opening for me 👀

2021 March 11, mandy (@siyeonbora), Twitter:

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Tumblr.


Tranada

Sadly the same is happening in Tranada, where I live.

2019 December 26, RadFemGem (@gem_fem), Twitter:

Oh Tranada. You are such a disappointment. I never knew you had so many legislators with no respect for women.

2020 June 5, The Honourable Yona (@yona1959), Twitter:

Scotland is still the fight we all need to fight, SNP are trying to emulate Tranada.

2020 September 20, Paintpot (@Paintpot17), Twitter:

(derogatory) Canada, viewed as excessively supportive of trans rights or hostile toward gender-critical beliefs and policies.


gendercritter

Gendercritters never begin by being critical of their own gender stereotypes. It’s almost as if they think it’s everyone else’s job to free them from their stereotype performances.

2017 December 15, Cristan Williams (@cristanwilliams), Twitter:

Also, from the way they talk about non-passing trans women I suspect most gendercritters are only OK with GNC men so long as they fit a highly specific mould of thin, white, youthful androgyny.

2019 January 23, Maria H (@ThisMariaHutch), Twitter:

Have gendercritters tried blaming coronavirus on trans people yet?

2020 February 28, Iza Pride (@IzabelaKaramia), Twitter:

(derogatory) A gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminist.


TERF Island

NY Times does another article about the terrible women of TERF Island...but without talking to any of them of course.

2021 February 26, Maya Forstater (@MForstater), Twitter:

Do I want to know why the Queen of TERF island is trending?
 I do not.

2021 December 13, Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu), Twitter:

When I came back to the UK this year people said, “are you sure you want to leave the US? It’s really bad in the UK right now.”
Yeeeeah I’m gonna take my chances on Terf Island.
That should say a lot about how terrifying the US has become.

2022 May 3, James Stephanie Sterling (@JimSterling), Twitter:

gender-critical feminism
gender-critical feminism

(slang, derogatory) Great Britain or the United Kingdom, viewed as a centre of gender-critical feminism, or more broadly of transphobic policies and attitudes.


TERFery

can't stop thinking about all these British ladies that apparently need the smelling salts because a judge ruled that TERFery isn't an equality act PROTECTED CHARACTERISTIC akin to disability, race, sex, religion or sexual orientation

2019 December 19, Christa Peterson (@christapeterso), Twitter:

But accusations of TERFery have been sufficient to intimidate many people, institutions and organisations I once admired, who’re cowering before the tactics of the playground.

2020 June 10, J. K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling Writes about Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issues:

We're doing the usual road from "just asking questions" to "trans are being mean to me" to full-blown terfery and at this point can we just skip to the end?

2021 October 23, Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll), Twitter:

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


tervert

Found one of these stuck on the back of the toilet cubicle door at the Museum of and in Manchester today, if anyone needed to know which public toilets the grubby terverts have been knocking about in lately.

2021 August 6, :, ew (@llewcid), Twitter:

Do you beleive^([sic]) that children should be required to submit to invasive genital inspections in order to participate in sports, as gender critical terverts have mandated by law in Florida?

2021 December 27, Crash (@StarCrashr), Twitter:

Thank you for standing up to the terverts! They think every normal person in the world should enable their weird sexual obsession with bullying trans people.

2022 June 29, AJ (@DreamSerpentine), Twitter:

gender-critical feminist
gender-critical feminist

(slang, derogatory) A gender-critical feminist or anti-transgender advocate, viewed as having an unhealthy fixation on trans people's genitals.


radtwt

do u know by any means if any of these groups accepts women that are new to radtwt and trying to get familiarized with the discourse?

2020 December 5, V (@dyke_me_down), Twitter:

i bet jkr has a secret account on radtwt—which one of you is it, come forward

i've been crypto on radblr for a while but i figured i'd make an account on radtwt since twt makes more sense to me.

2021 October 8, katarina (@wyvernfem), Twitter:

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Twitter.


cryptoTERF

Cryptoterfs are really good at using social justice language to weasel themselves into these spaces and make people accept Bad Ideas and i hate it.

2019 October 25, shut up and go in peace (@deidaravore), Twitter:

ok so i think my moot is a cryptoterf and a bunch of ppl follow them and i dmed them about it (cause they’re following someone posting violent transmisogynist & transphobic shit) […]

2021 March 15, alina (@sindibunny), Twitter:

i'm glad i've curated my following on this account well enough from my last account that i don't have to read any cryptoterf "b- but queew is a swuw used to siwence wesbians 🥺" takes anymore

2021 June 15, Roo (@roopicoroo), Twitter:

A person who conceals or masks their gender-critical views, especially from friends or within trans-inclusive spaces.


Glincel

Blend of Glinner + incel, the first component being taken from Linehan's now-suspended Twitter account (@glinner), itself a blend of his given name and surname.

Glincels in force doing their master’s bidding in response to this tweet.

2019 February 27, meh (@ohnonotphil), Twitter:

Seen a lot of Glincels and even Linehan himself repeating the lie “people are forceably transing gay teenage kids”.

2019 September 17, Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack), Twitter:

at some point you'll incur the wrath of him or his Glincels.

2020 May 8, hashtag girlboss (@surfacingwater), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A fervent defender of Graham Linehan and/or supporter of his views on transgender people.


TWAW

The woke left is aware of how mainstream media rigs news in favour of the ruling class but doesn't wonder why mainstream media agree that TWAW.

2020 July 2, Adeline Virginia Stephen (@A_V_Stephen), Twitter:

i used to be a sex worker and a staunch liberal feminist that firmly believed twaw.

2022 June 26, jah (@planetofplanet), Twitter:

The use of pronoun badges is intended to enforce TWAW.

2022 June 29, Helen Saxby (@helensaxby11), Twitter:

(Internet slang) Initialism of trans women are women.


Mumsnutter

Blend of Mumsnet + nutter (“a crazy or eccentric person”).

Mumsnutters use all kinds of euphemisms to denigrate trans women (no acknowledgement of trans people) but somehow 'cis' is a hate crime?

2018 November 17, Aimee Evelyn (@AimeeEvelyn202), Twitter:

*waves at all the obsessive Mumsnutters trawling my twitter to ‘report back’ to the terven “mother ship” for back-slaps and gossip* 🙄

2019 November 1, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:

Hey trans guys, did you know that you're likely to be a "trojan horse" according to Mumsnutters?

2021 September 8, Rachel the wolf (@TheWolfSpirit1), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A gender-critical poster on the Mumsnet feminism boards.


terven

en-adj

terven (comparative more terven, superlative most terven)

more terven (comparative)
most terven (superlative)

Happy #ldov [Lesbian Day of Visibility] to all them terven ladies and deffos no^([sic]) to males UwU

2018 April 26, Pidge (but evil) (@radfempidge), Twitter:

There are those of the terven persuasion in my mentions and I have exactly no energy to deal today.

2019 June 3, Roo B. (@roo_b_boy), Twitter:

Hi gyns!! I'm a terven artist who makes radfem-themed patches!!

2020 August 28, terfery is afoot (@gynosupremacist), Twitter:

(Internet slang) Characteristic of, related to, or espousing gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminism.


terven

en-noun

terven (countable and uncountable, plural tervens)

Any US radfems in the New England area? Watching with envy all the U.K. tervens getting to meet up

2019 September 7, coffee spoons (@coffeespoons3), Twitter:

Hey friends there's a few tervens who are harrasing^([sic]) this incredibly important binder fund aimed at the GRT community,

2022 May 4, Roo B. (@roo_b_boy), Twitter:

Tervens! I hope u all had a lovely weekend!

2022 June 12, Wild Womyn Workshop (@Wild_Womyn), Twitter:

(Internet slang, countable) A gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminist.

I gots data (at least for UK Terven)

2020 August 18, Maya Forstater (@MForstater), Twitter:

Because terven don't actually care about women's rights or equality

2020 December 15, Max has Nightmare Eyes (@chaoticgaythey), Twitter:

Request, terven and allies. I'm looking for articles written by lesbians and gay men arguing that "queer" is still a homophobic slur.

2022 June 16, Kara Dansky (@KDansky), Twitter:

(Internet slang, uncountable) Gender-critical or trans-exclusionary feminists collectively.


Initialism of two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer/questioning, etc.: LGBTQ+ within an Indigenous framework


enbyphobic

en-adj

enbyphobic (comparative more enbyphobic, superlative most enbyphobic)

more enbyphobic (comparative)
most enbyphobic (superlative)

Chris had to deal with enbyphobic comments at the workplace ever since coming out as non-binary.

So, here are some enbyphobic misconceptions about enby people that I’ve witnessed in queer/trans communities, and why they are wrong.

2016, Bad Apple Pie, Enbyphobia (in cis/trans spaces):

Someone might be clearly enbyphobic without being so clearly transphobic.

Even some trans people are being enbyphobic.

2021, Sophie Labelle, The Best of Assigned Male:


thussy

en-noun

thussy (countable and uncountable, plural thussies)

Blend of they + pussy, or from þussy, which resembles both the word bussy and pussy.

where can i get some thussy this monday afternoon

2020 December 21, @purportedfruit, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-07-06:

Asking my non-binary shorty for some thussy

2021 June 26, @excuseforhate, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-06-25:

I be going to Brooklyn like we ain't got perfectly good they/them thussy in Manhattan

2022 June 25, @JayJurden, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-06-24:

(LGBTQ, slang, humorous) The vulva or vagina, or anus of a non-binary person.


rudefem

I will never fucking understand how these "rudefems" think using straight up slurs and ridiculing physical appearance is fucking necessary or productive.

2019 July 16, 🧅 (@ThatsInThePast), Twitter:

watching myself slowly turn into a rudefem as these people piss me off and disgust me in new ways daily has been amusing

2020 October 7, mich (@pinktaxed), Twitter:

Shoutout to all the rudefems who never bite their tongues, say what they mean and don’t back down.

2021 December 6, lez-being (@separatismrules), Twitter:

(slang) A radical feminist who is blunt, confrontational, and sometimes abusive in their approach.