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Surgical removal of the penis, sometimes performed during the process of creating a vagina.

A model of care and/or recovery consisting of people who provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social, or practical help to one another, sometimes in contexts outside of traditional mental health care settings (Mead, 2006). Mead, Shery, and Cheryl MacNeil. “Peer support: What makes it unique.” International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation 10.2 (2006): 29-37.

A Western social and cultural system of institutionalized power structures that uphold and reinforce the social dominance of heterosexual, cisgender men, but oppress, dominate, and exploit women and gender minorities. Within patriarchal societies, cisgender men typically control most wealth and private property and predominate in roles conferring citizens with significant political and/or moral authority. The gender binary—based on biological essentialism—is often used to justify this power imbalance and consequently creates conditions for misogyny, transphobia, and transmisogyny to flourish.

To regard or view someone (or something) as medically and/or psychologically unhealthy and/or abnormal. Some medical models pathologize substance use as deviant and criminal rather than viewing the behavior as an understandable response to trauma.

To be perceived by others as one’s true gender. Some trans people prefer terms like “blending in” or “cis-assumed.” When Cameron began growing a beard, he found that he passed as male to strangers, who frequently referred to him using he/him pronouns.

An individual who is sexually attracted to people of all genders and/or gender presentations.

A person who experiences romantic, but not necessarily sexual, attraction to people of all genders (Healthline, 2019). Sam is panromantic—over the years, they have developed amorous feelings for various people across the gender spectrum.