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A fabric or material designed to tuck one’s genitals against the body, creating a flatter and less conspicuous appearance. Some transfeminine and/or non-binary individuals may wear a gaff to fit into tighter, more form-fitting clothing (see: tucking).

Systemic barriers controlling transgender people’s access to social, legal, and medical transition, such as:

Describes people sexually and romantically attracted to people of the same gender. The term is sometimes used to refer specifically to men (transgender or otherwise) romantically and sexually attracted to other men. “Gay” has replaced the outdated and clinical term “homosexual” as the preferred label for sexual and romantic same-gender attraction.

Gender is a multi-faceted social system generally based on the norms, behaviors, and societal roles expected of individuals based primarily on the binary sex they were determined to be at birth, based on the appearance of their external genitalia. Gender identity describes a person’s self-perceived gender. Gender expression is how a person presents or conveys…

The gender binary (also known as gender binarism) is the classification of gender into two distinct, opposite forms (male and female), based on the appearance of the external genitalia and often imposed by culture, religion, or other societal pressures.

The state of feeling aligned and/or comfortable with the relationship between one’s gender identity and body, gender expression, and/or gender role. Miguel felt a greater sense of gender congruence when binding and wearing loose-fitting clothing, as doing so allowed their gender expression to align more closely with their transmasculine identity.

The emotional distress associated with the cognitive dissonance between an individual’s assigned sex and gender, body, and/or social experiences, and their internal, personal experience of gender. May be used as a less clinical and/or pathologizing term for “gender dysphoria” (see: gender dysphoria, DSM-5).

A clinical term used to describe the psychological distress resulting from the dissonance between a transgender person’s assigned sex, body, and/or social experiences and their internal experience of gender. The phrase may refer to DSM-5 criteria for medical diagnosis. It is important to note that not all transgender people suffer from gender dysphoria and that…