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The combined male-female symbol (⚦) is used to represent androgyne or transgender people; when additionally combined with the female (♀) and male (♂) symbols (⚧) it indicates gender inclusivity, though it is also used as a transgender symbol.
LGBTQ slang, LGBTQ speak, queer slang, or gay slang is a set of English slang lexicon used predominantly among LGBTQ people. It has been used in various languages since the early 20th century as a means by which members of the LGBTQ community identify themselves and speak in code with brevity and speed to others.
The word transgender acquired its modern umbrella term meaning in the 1990s. [32] Health-practitioner manuals, professional journalistic style guides, and LGBT advocacy groups advise the adoption by others of the name and pronouns identified by the person in question, including present references to the transgender person's past. [33] [34]
Here's everything you need to know about the meaning behind the colors of the trans flag for Pride.
Regardless, “zhuzh” — the pronunciation sounds a bit like "jouj" — is in fact a real word, meaning “to fix, to tidy; to smarten up,” according to Green’s Dictionary of Slang.
In the words of butch, transgender man S. Bear Bergman, "butch and transgender are the same thing with different names, except that butch is not a trans identity, unless it is." [ 14 ] However, there is something of a "border war" between butch and FTM identities, as renowned butch scholar Jack Halberstam put it in Transgender Butch. [ 13 ]
[45] [46] The term is inclusive of trans non-binary people, trans men, trans women, and transmasculine individuals, [47] [48] using neolingual ending. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Some also use the term travesty , ending with the letter y, to mean the same as travesti, but sounding more artistic , subversive , or decolonial .
Trans chaser, [a] [1] [2] often shortened to chaser, [3] is a term predominantly used to describe cisgender men who are primarily sexually interested in trans women, [3] but it is sometimes used to refer to those interested in trans men as well.