Table 2.

The top ten terms and co-occurring terms tweeted across the United States by the general public vs. trans* for gender identification and discussions of gender-related issues. (^*The number in the parenthesis corresponds to the percentage of tweets that contains the term.)

Rank	General Public Terms		Trans* People Terms
		Co-occurring		Co-occurring
	Term Frequency		Term Frequency
1	trans (*32.05%)	#tgirl, shemale	trans (34.73%)	#tgirl, tranny
2	transgender (19.71%)	#tgirl, sissy	transgender (14.78%)	shemale, tranny
3	cis (6.81%)	shemale, sissy	cis (7.35%)	#tgirl, shemale
4	shemale (3.78%)	shemale, tranny	shemale (4.24%)	#tgirl, sissy
5	gender (3.51%)	gender, transgender	trans people (3.48%)	gender, transgender
6	transphobia (3.12%)	#tgirl, tranny	transphobia (3.19%)	ladyboy, shemale
7	tranny (3.11%)	ladyboy, shemale	tranny (2.88%)	shemale, sissy
8	trans people (2.78%)	#tgirl, ladyboy	gender (2.83%)	ladyboy, tranny
9	#tgirl (2.15%)	gender, gender binary	#tgirl (2.57%)	cis, gender
10	trans woman (1.96%)	ladybody, tranny	transsexual (2.30%)	dysphoria, gender