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What is gay, lesbian, or homosexual?
People who are attracted to people of the same gender use this term.
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What is Asexual?
People who don't experience any sexual attraction for anyone often call themselves this term.
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What is Progesterone?
A hormone made in the ovaries, adrenal glands, and testes.
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Who is Chaz Bono?
He grew up in the public eye with famous parents Cher and Sonny Bono.
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What is deadnaming?
Addressing or referring to a trans or nonbinary person by a name they no longer use, a name that is dead. It can happen accidentally or intentionally to shame, dismiss, or reject a person’s gender identity.
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What is straight or heterosexual?
People who are attracted to a different gender (for example, women who are attracted to men or men who are attracted to women) use this term.
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What is Assigned Female At Birth?
Often shortened to “AFAB.”
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What is gender euphoria?
Feelings of joy, comfort, relief, delight, excitement, or wellbeing that people experience in relationship to their gender identity. A term often used by transgender and nonbinary people.
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Who is Elliot Page?
This Canadian actor was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Juno in 2007.
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What is gender fluid?
A fluid gender identity that shifts over time depending on the situation.
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What is bisexual?
A person attracted to both men and women could use this term.
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What is Androgynous
A gender expression or appearance that is neither entirely masculine nor entirely feminine. May appear to have characteristics of both, neither, or in between those typically associated with men and women.
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What is top surgery, chest surgery, or chest reconstruction surgery?
Surgery to change the shape of the chest in order to reduce gender dysphoria. May involve reducing/removing chest tissue and changing the location of the nipples.
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Who is Suzy Eddie Izzard?
This British stand-up comedian, actress, and activist regularly performs in English, Arabic, French, German, Russian, and Spanish.
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What is misgendering?
Missing someone's gender or referring to them by the incorrect pronouns can happen accidentally or intentionally.
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What is pansexual or queer?
A person with attractions that span across many different gender identities could use this term.
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What is Assigned Male At Birth?
Often shortened to “AMAB.”
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What is Estradiol?
A form of estrogen commonly taken for gender affirming hormone treatment or hormone replacement.
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Who is Kim Petras?
She is the second transgender woman to win a Grammy (heard here with Sam Smith). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq9gPaIzbe8
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What is gender identity?
A person’s inner identity of their gender that may include genderqueer, man, woman, nonbinary, and many more. Your feelings about your it may begin as early as age 2.
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What is questioning?
This term indicates one is unsure about attraction.
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What is Agender?
A term for someone who does not identify with any gender.
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What is Hormone Replacement Therapy?
Often abbreviated HRT.
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Who are Lana and Lilly Wachowski?
These sisters wrote and directed The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions.
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What is blue, pink, white, pink, blue?
The order of the colors on the transgender flag.
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What is Raya and the Last Dragon?
In March 2021, Patti Harrison become the first known trans actor to voice a character in this Disney animated movie.
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