Dictionary of Terms

  • Androgenous = Having characteristics of both male and female, or neither specifically feminine or masculine.
  • Bicapable = Het SO who stays in physical relationship with previously het male after his M2F surgery, though het SO does not and would not define self in any other circumstance as “bi” sexual.
  • Bisexual = A person emotionally, physically, and/or sexually attracted to more than one gender. (“bi”)
  • Cis-gender =A person who expresses gender identity which matches biological sex = female identifies as woman
  • Cross dresser = A person who wears the clothing of the opposite sex
  • Dyad = Two individuals (as husband and wife) maintaining a sociologically significant relationship
  • Fetish = An object or bodily part whose real or fantasied presence is psychologically necessary for sexual gratification
  • Gay = A homosexual person, or one who directs sexual desire towards another person of the same sex
  • Gender = The behavioral, cultural and psychological traits which are generally associated with a one sex
  • Gender bender = A person who dresses and behaves as someone from the opposite sex
  • GSD = Gender & Sexual Diversity
  • Hermaphorodite = A person having both male and female reproductive organs
  • Heterosexual (het) = The tendency to direct sexual desire towards the opposite sex
  • Homosexual = Relates to a tendency to direct sexual desire towards another of the same sex
  • Intersex = LGBTI
  • Lesbian = a female homosexual
  • LGB = refers to the community
  • LGBT = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender
  • Metamorphosis = A change of physical form, or structure. e.g. caterpillar to butterfly
  • Pansexuality = Exhibiting or implying many forms of sexual expression
  • S&M = This term stands for ‘sadomasochism’ which is the derivation of pleasure from the infliction of physical or mental pain either on others or on oneself
  • The Community = In this story it refers to the S&M community
  • Transsexual = A person with a psychologiacl need to belong to the opposite sex, who may feel the need to undergo sex reassignment surgery in order to modify the sex organs in order to appear to be of the opposite and desired sex.
  • Transvestite = A person who adopts the dress and often the behavior which is typical of the opposite sex for purposes of emotional or sexual gratification