Sorted in Alphabetical Order, for you convenience!
Cis-gender - Cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth. For example, someone who identifies as a woman and was assigned female at birth is a cisgender woman. The term cisgender is the opposite of the word transgender. Related terms include cissexism and cisnormativity.
Cisnormativity (also termed cisdenderism or cissexual assumption) - The, often subconscious, assumption or world view that people's gender identity is the same as the biological sex they were assigned at birth.
Cissexism - Refers to a system that results in disadvantages for transgender and nonbinary individuals. Cissexism operates as a subtle web of ideas that many people hold based on the assumption that all people are cisgender. Because this assumption is so deeply ingrained in our society, many people say and do things that are cissexist without realizing it (KC Clements, Healthline.com).
Different Identity - A person who does not use one of the gender identity options provided. Providing specific wording is not required.
Female - a person’s own understanding of themselves as a woman based on their gender and gender expression.
Gender Essentialism -
1. The belief that males and females are born with distinctively different natures, determined biologically rather than culturally. This involves an equation of gender and sex.
2. The belief that gay people are born gay (a form of biological determinism) and/or that there is a distinctive ‘gay sensibility’.
3. The attribution of a homogeneous identity to a labelled group (such as women or gay males), ignoring differences within it. This can be either a naïve essentialism (for instance, labelling people in widely-different cultures and historical periods simply as ‘gay’), or a politically-motivated strategic essentialism.
Gender Identity– A social construct used to classify a person as a man, woman, Trans Male/Trans Man, Trans Female/Trans Woman, Genderqueer or other identity.
Gender Non-Conforming – People who do not subscribe to gender expressions or roles expected of them by society.
Gender Queer – A person’s whose gender identity and/or gender expression falls outside of the dominant social norm for their assigned sex, is beyond genders, or is some combination of them
Male – a person’s own understanding of themselves as a man based on their gender and gender expression.
Trans Man/Trans Male – A female-to-male (FTM) transgender person who was assigned female at birth, but whose gender identity is that of a man.
Trans Woman/Trans Female – A male-to-female (MTF) transgender person who was assigned male at birth, but whose gender identity is that of a woman.
Transgender – Used most often as an umbrella term; some commonly held definitions: 1) someone whose gender identity or expression does not fit within dominant group social constructs of assigned sex and gender; 2) a gender outside of the man/woman binary; 3) having no gender or multiple genders.
*** definitions were gathered from a variety of sources including Healthline, UC San Diego's LGBT Resource Center, Oxford Press, Wikipedia,