Table 1.

Terminology and Definitions, United States, 2017

Term	Definition
Transgender woman	A woman who was assigned male at birth
Cisgender woman	A woman who was assigned female at birth
Transgender man	A man who was assigned female at birth
Cisgender man	A man who was assigned male at birth
Gender nonbinary person	A person with a gender identity that is outside of the gender binary of female/male
Transmisogyny	A term coined by Julia Serano to describe the way that transphobia and misogyny interact to create a specific prejudice against transgender women and nonbinary, assigned male at birth people35
Cissexism	An ideological system that denies, denigrates, and stigmatizes any form of noncisgender form of behavior, identity, relationship, or behavior and can operate in a similar manner as heterosexism36
Intersectionality	A term originally developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe oppression faced by black women; intersectionality, or this interplay of structural oppressions, is also a concept critical to understanding the barriers facing TGNB medical students and physicians37

TGNB, transgender and gender nonbinary.