Resources
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Drag King
A person who wears extravagant, stereotypically masculine clothing and/or prosthetics for performance, self-expression, and/or entertainment. Tristan is non-binary, but sometimes they perform as a drag king to express their masculinity while simultaneously mocking traditional gender roles.
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Drag Queen
A person who wears extravagant stereotypically feminine clothing and/or prosthetics for performance, self-expression, and/or entertainment.
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DSM-5
An acronym for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, a publication that provides a comprehensive list of official psychiatric diagnoses and their criteria. The DSM-5 uses the term “gender dysphoria” to refer to diagnosed transgender people reporting a sense of social and/or physical dissonance between their assigned gender and their personal experience of…
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Dyadic
A person who is not intersex—i.e., does not possess variations of sex characteristics involving chromosomes, the reproductive system, and other aspects of one’s physiology. Dyadic people make up a majority of the global population, but non-dyadic people also exist in large numbers throughout the world.