Resources
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Racism
Any behavior, action, or belief system that intentionally or unintentionally degrades, victimizes, dehumanizes, and/or harms an individual of a marginalized racial group, including the false belief that a person’s temperament, intellectual abilities, talents, etc., are dependent on their race. Racism may consist of overt actions, statements, and/or institutional practices; it may also involve unconscious biases…
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Radfem
Slang term for TERF, or trans-exclusionary radical feminist.
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Read
Refers to someone observing an individual’s appearance to determine one’s gender identity. Reading may be considered invasive (see: clocking).
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Real-Life Experience
A form of medical gatekeeping that requires transgender individuals to present full-time as their true gender for a designated amount of time before receiving a clinical diagnosis of gender dysphoria or pursuing medical transition (see: DSM-5). When Dawn transitioned twenty-five years ago, her therapist asked her to present for a full year as her actual…
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Sexual Orientation
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Silicone Injection Surgery
A procedure by which substances (typically but not necessarily silicone) are injected into an individual’s body to reshape certain aspects of its structure. Silicone injection surgeries may be performed for various reasons on people of various identities. For instance, some transmasculine people may use silicone to achieve more defined pectorals. In contrast, some transfeminine people…
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Social Construct
The conceptualization or interpretation of an idea based on a collective perspective established within a group of people or society, which may or may not reflect objective reality (Oxford, 2020). The idea of the gender binary is a social construct since different gender configurations exist in various societies throughout the world.
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Spironolactone
A diuretic steroid with antiandrogenic properties used to suppress the effects of endogenous testosterone in people undergoing hormone replacement therapy. Spironolactone (referred to as “spiro” by some transgender people) is sometimes taken with other hormones, such as estradiol. Kara started her medical transition by taking spironolactone, an androgen blocker.