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What do you call a person who identifies as male and female?
Bigender: Someone who identifies with both male and female genders, or even a third gender. Biological sex: Refers to anatomical, physiological, genetic, or physical attributes that determine if a person is male, female, or intersex.
What pronouns are used for gender fluid?
Gender-fluid people can use whatever pronouns they’d like. Some gender-fluid people use they, them, and their pronouns. Others might use she/her/hers, he/him/his, or neopronouns, like xe/xem/xyr. Some gender-fluid people’s pronouns change along with their gender.
What does AMAB and Afab mean?
assigned female/male at birth
AFAB and AMAB: Acronyms meaning “assigned female/male at birth” (also designated female/male at birth or female/male assigned at birth). No one, whether cis or trans, gets to choose what sex they’re assigned at birth.
What does it mean to transition to another gender?
Going from presenting as one gender to another is called transitioning, but not all people take the same path. Some trans people are satisfied with only coming out to their friends or social circles, in what’s called social transitioning.
What is gender identity and expression?
Gender identity is someone’s personal identification as man, woman, or a gender outside of societal norms. Gender expression refers to characteristics and behaviors a person identifies with that can be viewed as masculine, feminine, a mix of both, or neither.
Can you identify as trans as a child?
Although some research suggests people can identify as trans as children, it can take years of pain and social stigma for people to begin living their lives as the gender they identify with. Keisling, of the National Center for Transgender Equality, knows what it’s like to embrace an identity that is suppressed for a long time.