Banana Prosthetics
Montreal-based, trans-owned small business selling packers, packing boxers, harnesses, binders, breast forms, and other products. Ships internationally.
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WPATH
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) is a non-profit organization intended to establish professional education and health standards for the treatment of transgender individuals. Their intention is to create professionally educated and socially understanding individuals to create a high standard for the quality of care for transgender and non-binary individuals worldwide by creating the Standards of Care (SOC) for the Health of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People.
Voice Coaching
See: Vocal therapy.
Vocal Therapy
A process that an individual may pursue to change their voice to a more masculine, feminine, or androgynous pitch. Some people seek professional assistance to train their voices to match their identified gender. Others will train their voices to match their voices with their identified gender. Some transmasculine individuals who take HRT will not need to seek voice therapy or coaching, as testosterone will naturally lower the pitch of their voice. Since their voice caused them a lot of body dysphoria, Oliver decided to try vocal therapy to train themself to speak in a lower pitch.
Umbrella Term
A term used to cover a broad number of functions, words, subjects, or items that all fall under a single common category or theme.
Vaginoplasty
A surgical procedure intended to construct a vagina surgically. Vaginoplasty is typically performed as a single surgical technique, but some may seek follow-up surgeries—such as labiaplasty—to enhance certain physical characteristics (see: bottom surgery).
Vaginal Preservation Phalloplasty
A surgical procedure in which an individual with a vagina would potentially keep their vaginal opening while creating a phallus. This procedure is typically pursued by individuals who do not fit gender stereotypes or simply desire to keep their vagina while having a phallus.
Two-Spirit
A modern, pan-Native American term used by some Indigenous communities in the United States to describe queer and/or gender non-conforming people, replacing the inaccurate and often degrading phraseology imposed on gender-variant Indigenous peoples by white colonizers. The term is not synonymous with Western concepts like “transgender” or “queer”—it can mean many things depending on an individual’s culture or personal identity.