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Individuals decided for themselves whether these terms or other terms apply to their identities and may define similar words in different ways. |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| Ally: A heterosexual or cisgender person who cares about LGBTQ issues and works to challenge sexuality and gender related oppressions.\u003Cbr>Biological Sex/Assigned Sex: The physiological and anatomical characteristics of maleness and femaleness with which a person is born or that develop with physical maturity. These markers including internal and external reproductive organs, chromosomes, hormones, and body shape. Infants are usually assigned to a sex category (usually male or female) at birth on the basis of such characteristics (primarily the appearance of the external genitals) (Bornstein, 1994, 1998) . We therefore use assigned sex to refer to the sex designation that appears on birth certificates and other legal documents. See also intersex.\u003Cbr>Butch: A queer person whose gender presentation includes attributes more commonly associated with masculinity than femininity; an intentional performance of masculinity.\u003Cbr>Cisgender: A person whose assigned sex aligns with their gender identity, i.e. a male/man, a female/woman. Someone who is not transgender.\u003Cbr>Cross-dressing: A person who enjoys dressing in clothes typically associated with another gender. This may be the extent of the genderbending behavior, or it may be one step on a path of changing sex or gender. The words transvestite and transvestism have been used in the past to describe this activity or interest.\u003Cbr>Femininity/Masculinity: Ideological constructions whose human manifestations (women and men, girls and boys) are recreated in each generation according to the intermeshing requirements of social, cultural, economic, and biological necessities. People rely on cultural | constructions of these to indicate their membership in their sex or gender category.\u003Cbr>Femme: A queer person whose gender presentation includes attributes commonly associated with femininity. An intentional performance of femininity.\u003Cbr>FtM: Female-to-Male (or Female-toward-Male) transgender person, cross-dresser, or transsexual.\u003Cbr>Gender: A social identity usually conflated with biological sex in a binary system that presumes one has either male and masculine characteristics and behavior, or female and feminine characteristics and behavior. In addition to being a major social status experienced by individuals, this is also “a social institution” that helps humans organize their lives.\u003Cbr>Gender Expression: (a) Masculinity and femininity are culturally specific definitions, and many people fall “in between” those cultural expectations as we discovered in Module 1. Some other people may have gender expression that is farther to either end (i.e., more masculine than “traditional” masculine, more feminine than“traditional” feminine) . Some additional terms that might belong in the middle or on either end of the gender expression axis include androgynous, tomboy, drag queen, drag king, butch, femme, effeminate, crossdresser and soon. (b) Most of us have gender expression that changes daily. For some people, our habitual gender expression may go through significant shifts over our lifetimes. (c) Furthermore, we know that it is not just men who are masculine, some women are masculine; it is not just women who are feminine, some men are feminine.\u003Cbr>Gender Expression: People’s behaviors that convey something about their gender identity, or that others interpret as meaning something about |\n\n\n| their gender identity. How we walk, talk, dress, and the language we use for ourselves (e.g. names and pronouns) are all aspects of gender expression. 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Gender expression refers to behaviors and how others interpret them, including how people walk, talk, dress, and the language they use.\"},{\"question\":\"What does cisgender mean?\",\"answer\":\"Cisgender describes a person whose assigned sex aligns with their gender identity. It is used for someone who is not transgender.\"}]","Queering Our Vocabulary: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender Terminology | PDF",1790863309]