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Pride Month 2022: This Glossary Will Teach You All The LGBTQIA+ Terms You Need To Know In 2022

Lifestyle Jun 07, 2022

by Hina P. Ansari

We continue to honour Pride Month with our latest story. Have you found yourself Googling all of the terms that are associated with LGBTQIA2S+? Don’t worry you aren’t alone. In order to help us all understand the right terminology that is very important to our LGBTQ community, here is a glossary that helps break everything down.

LGBTQ: The acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. You can also check for LGBTx or LGBTQIA. The “I” here stands for intersex and A for asexual/aromantic/agender.

Agender: A person who doesn’t associate with any traditional gender type..

Ally: Someone who supports the LGBTQIA community.

Androsexual: A person who is sexually attracted or romantically involved with men.

Asexual: A person who experiences little or no sexual attraction towards others.

Bicurious: A person who is curious to experiment and gets attracted to different genders.

Bigender: A person who fluctuates between being a man and a woman.

Biological sex: A medical term used to refer to the chromosomal, hormonal, and anatomical characteristics that are used to classify an individual as female or male, or intersex.

Cisgender: A person who is assigned certain sex at birth and corresponds in the same way. For example – a person who was assigned female at birth and identifies as a female

Demisexual: A term used when someone feels sexual attraction only to people with whom they have an emotional bond.

Drag King: A person (often a woman) who appears as a man. Generally in reference to an act or performance.

Drag Queen: A person (often a man) who appears as a woman. Generally in reference to an act or performance.

FTM: Female to Male

Femme: A person who identifies as feminine.

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Gender binary: The idea that there are only two genders and that every person is one of those two.

Gender Dysphoria (GD): When a person undergoes discomfort or distress because of their assigned sex and desire to change the characteristics that are the source

Gender fluid: A person whose gender is fluid between two or more genders.

Graysexual: A graysexual person is one who experiences sexual attraction rarely and in specific circumstances

Heterosexism: Heterosexism excludes the needs, concerns, and life experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer people while it gives advantages to heterosexual people.

MTF: Make to Female.

Monosexual: A person who is attracted to one gender.

Nonmonosexual: A person who is attracted to more than one gender

Pansexual: A person who can be attracted to all different kinds of people, regardless of their gender identity.

PGPs: Preferred gender pronouns.

Polyamory: The idea of orientation toward having ethical, honest, and consensual non-monogamous relationships.

QPOC/QTPOC: Initialisms that stand for queer people of colour.

Queer: Historically used as a slang term used against the people who don’t associate with gender. Now the power has been taken back by the LGTBQIA2S+ as an empowering term to only be used within the LGTBQ community.

SGL: Same-gender loving

SRS: Sex reassignment surgery

Stealth: A trans person who is not “out” as trans, and is perceived/known by others as cisgender.

Trans: A term used to describe gender non-conforming and non-binary people.

Trans man: A term used to identify with that specific gender

Trans woman: A term used to identify with that specific gender

Transitioning: A process that a person goes through to live more fully as their true gender.

Transphobia: The fear of, discrimination against, or hatred of trans people

Pride Month 2022: This Glossary Will Teach You All The LGBTQIA+ Terms You Need To Know In 2022: Understanding the key definitions is an important part of showing your support. Photo Credit: www.unsplash.com

Gender pronouns that you should know:

There are several pronouns that the LGBTQIA2S+ community goes by. Always make sure to check a person’s pronoun before identifying them. This table justifies the actual norm in the society, the objective, possessive pronoun, and reflexive.

She – her – hers – herself
He – him – his – himself
They – them – theirs – themself
Ze – him/zir – hirs/zirs – himself/zirself

So hopefully you will be able to save this on your phone and use this as a quick reference as part of your journey of knowing these terms. That’s one of many ways that we can be the right ally for our LGBTQIA2S+ friends and family.

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Hina P. Ansari

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Hina P. Ansari is a graduate from The University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario). Since then she has carved a successful career in Canada's national fashion-publishing world as the Entertainment/Photo Editor at FLARE Magazine, Canada's national fashion magazine. She was the first South Asian in...

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Pride Month 2022: This Glossary Will Teach You All The LGBTQIA+ Terms You Need To Know In 2022

by Hina P. Ansari

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