Trans Parrotfish

Confused about some or all of the words used on this blog? Here’s the page to help you.

Trans:

a short-term used for transgender and/or transsexual

Transgender:

General term applied to a variety of individuals, behaviors, and groups involving tendencies to vary from culturally conventional gender roles. Transgender is the state of one’s “gender identity” (self-identification as woman, man, neither, both, etc.) not matching one’s “assigned sex”

TL:DR Transgender is a term for those who feel their gender is currently or has been transient

Transsexual:

A term used to describe individuals whose gender identity is inconsistent or is not culturally associated with their assigned sex. Often the term transsexual implies a physical transition of said sex

TL:DR Transsexual is a term for those who feel their sex is currently or has been transient

Non-binary (nonbinary) and/or Genderqueer (GQ)

Non-binary is generally considered catch-all term for gender identities other than and/or a combining of man and woman, thus outside of the gender binary and often also outside of heteronormativity. Some people who identify as non-binary and/or genderqueer may also consider themselves transgender, transsexual, and/or may feel their gender is fluid and/or flexible and/or non-existent

Also not everyone views genderqueer and non-binary as the same thing. Nonbinary can be different or apart from Genderqueer, some consider these words to be umbrella terms, and to others they can be an identity. These identities can include but do not necessarily mean non-gendered, bi-gendered, tri-gendered, pan-gendered, agendered, neutrois, genderfucked, androgynous, androgyne, etc.

Genderqueer as a term has commonly become its own gender, while non-binary often means any gender not falling inside of the gender binary, including transgendered, transsexual and even crossdressers at times, as long as that is how they identify.

TL;DR Non-Binary is anyone outside or mishmashing within the ‘male-female’ binary. Genderqueer is a queerness of ones gender. They can be the same or very different.

Gender Identity:

The gender to which one identifies. This should be respected no matter how a person presents and/or expresses themselves. Example: If a person in a dress and make-up expresses that they prefer male pronouns and identify as male you should use male pronouns for them and consider them male

Cis:

A short-term used for cissexual and/or cisgender

Cissexual:

A person whose sex conforms/matches with the gender they were assigned at birth

Cisgender:

A person whose gender conforms/matches with the gender they were assigned at birth

Trans man:

A person who identifies as a transsexual and/or transgender male

Trans woman:

A person who identifies as a transsexual and/or transgender woman

FTM:

A short-term used by some individuals, it stands for Female-To-Male transsexual and/or transgender

MTF:

A short-term used by some individuals, it stands for Male-To-Female transsexual and/or transgender

FAAB:

A term to describe those assigned female at birth, the acronym stands for female-assigned-at-birth

MAAB:

A term to describe those assigned male at birth, the acronym stands for male-assigned-at-birth

CAFAB:

A term to describe those coercively assigned female at birth, the acronym stands for coercively-assigned-female-at-birth

CAMAB:

A term to describe those coercively assigned male at birth, the acronym stands for coercively-assigned-male-at-birth

Agender:

A term used for those who identify as ‘in-between’, ‘fluid’, or (most commonly) neither and/or androgynous

HRT:

Horemone Replacement Therapy

NOTE #1:

Please note that words like trans, transgender, transsexual and alike are adjectives, not nouns. They help describe a person, they are not ‘a person’. A person is not ‘a transgender’, they are a transgender(/ed) person.

Common Questions:

Gender:
 ”Why do you want to be a man/woman?”

Trans people don’t want to be the opposite gender and/or sex. They are the gender and/or sex they identify with.

Orientation:
“Why to transition if you’re going to be gay? / I would accept you as a gay, don’t worry!”

Trans people can identify as a heterosexual, gay, bi, pan, asexual, queer, or anything else, just like any cis man can. No matter what state a person is at in their transition (or non-transition, as the case may be) their sexual orientation is theirs alone to identify and should be respected.

Dysphoria:
“Why do you hate your body so much? There’s nothing wrong with it!”

Trans people don’t really hate their bodies (well, some of us do, just like some cis people hate their bodies). If a trans person chooses to modify their body it is to help bring them congruence and peace with their body, gender identity, and sex identity. This process may mean surgery and/or HRT, but it also doesn’t nessesarily mean that. Some trans people pack, bind, wear breasts, tuck, or many other things and those may be enough or they may not. Some trans people don’t do any of these things but they are no less trans than those who do.

NOTE #2 : This list is always growing, evolving, changing and reconstructing. Please leave a message in the ask box if you feel one of the definitions needs to be changed, updated, deleted and/or if you have a new word/definition you’d like to add

Thank you and lots of love,

The Parrotfish