Key Terms
- cisgender
- individuals whose sex assigned at birth and gender identity are congruent
- gender dysphoria
- a deep sense of unease, anxiety, or discomfort that may occur in people whose gender does not align with their sex assigned at birth
- gender expression
- ways in which a person outwardly expresses their gender identity
- gender fluid
- a person who does not identify with a single fixed gender or has a changing or unfixed gender identity
- gender identity
- a person’s deeply held beliefs about who they are from a sexual perspective and with which, if any, gender they identify
- gender nonconforming
- a gender presentation that is outside the typical binary presentation; it can also define an individual who identifies outside the man–woman binary.
- gynecomastia
- a condition in which male breast tissue becomes enlarged and overdeveloped
- nonbinary
- an individual whose gender identity does not fit into the man–woman dichotomy
- transgender
- a broad term used by individuals whose sex assigned at birth does not match the gender they feel they are
- transsexual
- a term that sometimes may be used interchangeably with transgender to indicate an individual whose sex assigned at birth and gender identity do not match