Table 1.

Glossary of Terms for Transgender Health

Cisgender	A term used to describe people whose gender identity is congruent with what is traditionally expected based on their sex assigned at birth.
Gender diverse
Gender expression	The ways in which a person communicates femininity, masculinity, androgyny, or other aspects of gender, often through speech, mannerisms, gait, or style of dress. Everyone has ways in which they express their gender.
Gender identity	A person’s inner sense of being a girl/woman, a boy/man, a combination of girl/woman and boy/man, something else, or having no gender at all. Everyone has a gender identity.
Gender minority	A broad diversity of people who experience an incongruence between their gender identity and what is traditionally expected based on their sex assigned at birth, such as transgender and gender diverse persons.
Gender non-binary	A term used by some people who identify as a combination of girl/woman and boy/man, as something else, or as having no gender. Often used interchangeably with “gender non-conforming.”
Gender non-conforming	A term used by some people who identify as a combination of girl/woman and boy/man, as something else, or as having no gender. Often used interchangeably with “gender non-binary.”
Queer	Historically a derogatory term used against LGBTQ people, it has been embraced and reclaimed by LGBTQ communities. Queer is often used to represent all individuals who identify outside of other categories of sexual and gender identity. Queer may also be used by an individual who feels as though other sexual or gender identity labels do not adequately describe their experience.
Sex assigned at birth	Usually based on phenotypic presentation (i.e., genitals) of an infant and categorized as female or male; distinct from gender identity.
Sex	Biological sex characteristics (chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, and/or genitals); male, female, intersex. Synonymous with “sex assigned at birth.”
Transgender man	Someone who identifies as male but was assigned female sex at birth.
Transgender woman	Someone who identifies as female but was assigned male sex at birth.