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If you don't know what a term means, don't check it. If a term offends you, don't check it. You can't identify with something you don't know or are offended by. :)
Important Note: These terms are specific to culture. 'Two-spirit' is used by Native Americans, 'hijra' by Indians, etc. Please be aware of the cultural significance of a term before you use it. Also, not all terms can be applied to all three of sex, gender, and orientation - 'intersex,' for example, is considered by some intersex people to be a medical condition, not an identity term. Please be sensitive of that too. :)
There are exactly 947 options here, and a total of 1.1896×10285 or 1.1 quattruornovemgintillion possible combinations, more than there are elementary particles in the universe. If each option were a computer bit, it would take 119 bytes to encode a combination.
Send any suggestions for sex, gender, or orientation terms to genderterms at kreativekorp dot cjb dot net. Send any flames, hate mail, or homophobic/transphobic crap to /dev/null.
I will not attempt to define all these terms, since no English words could do any of them justice. The exact meaning of each one is undefinable, and there probably isn't an exact meaning anyway, since some of these even differ among people. Similarly, I've included a lot of words that could be considered synonyms; the connotations of each term, however, are slightly different, and some people may identify with one and not another.
Although I really wanted the words to stand for themselves, without tainting them by splitting them up, with 947 options that's not really plausible. So I have categorized them into groups. Like any other classification system, this is completely arbitrary. You can still view one long list if you like, or you can view the terms in categories. If you have any suggestions for where terms should go, send them in.
Special thanks to all people who have sent in suggestions.
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