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Tg = Cd + Tv + Ts + Dq + ...
Abrreviations And Definitions
Transgender, Tg
Transgender including thoese Cd, Tv,Ts,Dq..
Crossdressing is in fact a harmless alternative lifestyle, which for most is closet and part-time
Cross dresser, Cd
Someone who wears the clothes of the opposite sex, sometimes used instead of transvestite to indicate that there is little or no sexual component involved.Normaly cd live in closet.
Transvestite, Tv
Someone who wears the clothes as the opposite sex, same as Cd, but instead live full time.A term for those who feel compelled to wear the clothes of the opposite gender, who often feel 50% or more female, but would never change sex.
Transexual, Ts
Someone who wishes to live as the opposite sex. Someone born with a female brain in a male body, or vice-versa. "Gender dysphoria" can only be cured by surgery and hormones to align the body with the brain ("gender reassignment"), whereupon the person is no longer TS.
Drag Queen, Dq
Someone, usualy a gay male, who dresses in the clothes of the opposite sex, often in an exaggerated manner with sometimes little attempt to pass
Transgendered
Someone who does not fit into the standard male - female gender patterns accepted by humanity.
T*
Abbreviation used to mean all transgendered persons
Intersex, Hermaphrodite:
Rare. Someone with ambiguous sex organs, or with those of both sexes. Usually corrected by surgery in infancy, but he or she may need to remain on hormones for life.
Sissy
A male who fantasises about enforced femininity. This is really about submissive role play, such as being in a domestic maid to a female dominatrix; or for a tiny minority, being innocently dressed as an adult girl child.
She-Male, Ladyboy:
Someone with male genitalia who has taken hormones to give themselves a more feminine body. Common in Thailand and Brazil. Terms (rather unfortunately) associated with prostitution in underdeveloped countries, usually due to political and police oppression.
Eunuch:
The castrated but widely accepted "third sex", who have been around for centuries around the world and are still numerous in some countries such as India.
Drag King
Lesbian equivalent of Drag Queen
DSM-III
The Diagnostics and Statistical Manual Vol. 3 - a set of statistical definitions the psychiatrists in the states used to define gender dysphoria
Gender Dysphoria
The medical name given to the condition, where you are not content with you're current gender and wish to some degree or another, to change it
Gender Fuck
To deliberately go against standard gender standards, i.e. to wear a skirt and a beard
GG
Genetic Girl
HRT
Hormone Replacement Therapy, hormones taken to affect a change of sex
IRC
Internet Relay Chat, sort of an 0898 number for the internet except that it's free.
MOTAS
Member Of The Appropriate Sex
MOTOS
Member Of The Other Sex
MOTSS
Member Of The Same Sex
non-op
Non operative, someone who would like to have SRS, but for one reason or another, elects not to go through with it.
passing
To pass, means to go out in public and to be consitently mistaken for the opposite gender
pre-op
Pre-operative
post-op
Post-operative
read
To be read, means for someone to discern you're true gender while you are trying to be percieved as the opposite gender
RLT
Real Life Test, the period spent living as the opposite gender before surgery
SO
Significant Other, used to denote, spouse, partner, girl/boy-friend, etc.
SOC
Standards Of Care, a set of rules and procedures for the treatment of transexualism often used by the medical profession in the USA
SRS (occasionally GRS) - Sex Re-assignment Surgery, the surgery undergone to alter genitalia to the target sex
Bisexual:
Fancying both men and women. Correct meaning = "of both sexes", but has come instead to mean "Swings both ways",Note that most gay men hate the idea of dressing as women. Even those who do, normally fancy butch men, not TVs or TSs. Gay men often criticise crossdressers to draw attention away from their own secret leanings. Gay women sometimes oppose crossdressing, as they only like real women. People of all kinds who are comfortable with their own sexuality tend to be the most supportive of gender issues.
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Updated: 18-11-2005
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