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Trans Chaser
A person who seeks sexual relationships with trans people, sometimes exclusively, for the sake of fetish fulfillment. Some chasers may develop patterns of stalking, pursuing, or sexually harassing transgender individuals. Mariah suspected that the guy she met on Tinder was a chaser, as he had been known to date and fetishize transgender women and treated…
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Trans Masculine
Trans masculine is an umbrella term used to describe individuals who were assigned female at birth but identify and/or express themselves in a more masculine or male-aligned way. This term encompasses a diverse range of gender identities and expressions, including but not limited to transgender men, non-binary individuals who lean towards masculinity, genderqueer individuals, and…
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Trans-antagonism
A broad range of hostile acts intended to invalidate, intimidate, and/or provoke transgender people, including but not limited to the use of slurs, anti-trans jokes, and cissexist and/or transmisogynistic statements (see: transphobia).
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Transgender
An umbrella term describing individuals whose gender identity differs from the one assigned to them at birth. The transgender population is comprised of diverse people and is found in numerous nations throughout the world. Since gender identity and sexual orientation are separate concepts, transgender people can be heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, asexual, sexually fluid,…
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Transgender Man
A man who was assigned female sex at birth but whose true gender is male.
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Transgender Woman
A woman who was assigned male sex at birth but whose true gender is female.
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Transition
See: Gender Transition.
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Transmisogynoir
Describes the particular type of oppression at the intersection between transphobia, misogyny, and anti-Black racism. Misogyny directed towards transgender women, trans feminine people, and feminine-identified genderqueer people who are Black.