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An Introduction to Gender Terminology

By meloukhia on 24 November, 2009

I and others are going to be talking about the medicalization and pathologization of trans* gender identities here at FWD/Forward in the coming weeks and months, so I wanted to put up a definitions post so that we can all get familiar with the kind of language we will be using. I want to note [...]

Posted in bodies, gender, identity, intersectionality, language, normality, social attitudes | Tagged binarism, binary, cis, cissexism, gender binary, nonbinary, trans, trans gender | 34 Responses

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