Intersex- "a variety of conditions in which a person is born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy that doesn’t seem to fit the typical definitions of female or male"
These are definitions for how I communicate- if you don't feel these definitions don't apply to you, don't apply them to yourself. As I said, when talking about specific people who identify different to these definitions, I'll try to work with it. These definitions are subject to change. More may be added as needed. Feel free to ask if you have a question about these terms.
Transgender- An adjective describing a person who's gender (part or all of it) does not match the sex they were assigned at birth. Transgender makes no assumptions about the person's genitalia, sex, gender role, presentation in daily life, or anything else- only the disconnect between what the doctors assumed the person would be and what the person actually is.
- Exceptions: 1. Genuinely intersexed people who do not feel that transgender is an accurate representation of themselves even if they fit the description. 2. Genderfluid/multigender (and probably some genderqueer) people are a semi-exception. A non-IS person who is both a werman and a woman, even if not at the same time, could be said to be both trans and cis because their gender both does and doesn't match the sex they were assigned at birth (just one example).
Trans - I use this a as a shortening of "transgender", thus it is an adjective in this form. (ex. Transgender Woman is shortened to Trans Woman)
Cissexual - An adjective describing a person (cis, trans, or other) who does not desire/seek and has not gone through medical gender/sex related transition involving hormones and/or surgery. This also applies to intersexed people who were subjected to non-consensual normalization treatment and do not desire consensual gender/sex related treatment.
Cisgender- an adjective describing a person whose gender does match the sex they were assigned at birth.
Cis- a shortening of cisgender.
_AAB- Assigned-At-Birth. Most often faab and maab (female-assigned-at-birth and male-assigned-at-birth). It refers to the marker placed on a person's birth certificate at birth and the gender role that person was raised and expected to be in for the first [3-100] years of that person's life. This makes no assumptions of the person's genitalia, chromosomes, reproductive organs, or anything physical and makes no assumptions about anything mental or emotional. Faab and Maab people can be cis and trans, cissexual and transsexual, intersexed and not intersexed. (To my knowledge, intersexed children are most often assigned a binary sex at birth)
Non-binary -an adjective that I sometimes use as a noun that refers to a person whose gender, part or all of it, does not fit within the gender binary of "either a woman or a werman. Bigendered, genderfluid, and multi-gendered people may or may not fit into this description- depending on how they feel about it and what their genders are. It does not refer to binary-gendered people who reject the gender binary or do not fit into the expected gender role/presentation of their gender.
