• Drag King

    A woman who appears as a man on a temporary basis. She may or may not have any masculine expression in her usual life. Generally in reference to an act or performance. Drag performance does not not indicate sexuality, gender identity, or sex identity.

  • Drag Queen

    A man who appears as a woman on a temporary basis. He may or may not have any feminine expression in his usual life. Generally in reference to an act or performance. Drag performance does not not indicate sexuality, gender identity, or sex identity.

  • FTM/F2M

    An acronym that stands for "Female to Male" and is used to describe transgender people who want to change or have changed sex from being biologically female to being male.

  • Gay Man

    A person who falls in love with and/or is sexually attracted to people of the same sex.

  • Gender

    Gender refers to socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities, and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for men and women.

  • Gender Binary System

    The idea that human gender exists in only two forms: masculine and feminine. The term also describes the system in which a society divides people into male and female gender roles, gender identities and attributes.

  • Gender Characteristics

    Refers to the primary and secondary sexual physical characteristics like height, weight, and body hair, over which the individual has no control and which do not constitute part of their expression or identification. Examples might include a man with a high voice, a woman with prominent facial hair, or a person with anomalous genitalia (more correctly referred to as "intersex").

  • Gender Comformity

    When gender identity and sex "match" (i.e. fit social norms). For example, a male who is masculine and identifies as a man.

  • Gender Expression/Gender Presentation

    The way a person expresses his or her gender through gestures, movement, dress, and grooming.

  • Gender Identity

    A person's internal, deeply felt sense of their own gender, regardless of biological sex.

  • Gender Marker

    Gender marker refers to a gendered designator on, for example, an identity document (passports). The most obvious gender markers are designations such as male/female or Mr./Mrs./Ms./Miss. They can also be professional titles or personal pronouns, or coded numbers, such as social security numbers and tax numbers which may use certain combinations for men and for women (for example, even/uneven numbers). Gender markers are often embedded in ID cards or personal certificates such as passports, birth certificates, school diplomas, and employers' reference letters.

  • Gender Role

    How "masculine" or "feminine" an individual acts. Societies commonly have norms regarding how males and females should behave, expecting people to have personality characteristics and/or act a certain way based on their biological sex.