Definitions Activity II

Click on each term to learn more (definitions may vary slightly depending on your location and any applicable local interpretations).

+ Transgender

+ Transitioning

+ Nonbinary

Transgender

“Transgender” is “a general term that refers to a person whose gender identity differs from the person’s sex assigned at birth.”

Transitioning

“Transitioning” is defined as “a process some transgender people go through to begin living as the gender with which they identify, rather than the sex assigned to them at birth. This process may include, but is not limited to, changes in name and pronoun usage, facility usage, participation in employer-sponsored activities, or undergoing hormone therapy, surgeries, or other medical procedures.”

Nonbinary

“Nonbinary” is an umbrella term for people with gender identities that fall somewhere outside of the traditional conceptions of being strictly either female or male. People with nonbinary gender identities may or may not identify as transgender, may or may not have been born with intersex traits, may or may not use gender-neutral pronouns, and may or may not use more specific terms to describe their genders, such as agender, genderqueer, gender fluid, two-spirit, bigender, pangender, gender nonconforming, or gender variant.