Further, I object to the word itself, with its implication of ‘trans’ meaning ‘to pass through’, which implies that there are only two genders and that a person must adhere to one or the other without ambiguity. All persons are composed of a mixture of masculine and feminine traits, and it’s time people learned to accept it. I may not be a perfect man–but neither is anybody else.

In my quest for an alternate word to describe what I am, I have culled the following list of words that somehow related to the gender and sexual dynamics of masculine people born female. Many of them are derogatory, and many of them are identified with lesbians. While a number of the words fit my self-concept (once cultural bias is subtracted), I still haven’t found the word I’m looking for, but I’ve got a lot more options than I used to!.

Notes on definitions: Language is extraordinarily fluid, especially language which has not been captured by formal dictionaries and given fixed meaning. The same terms can have multiple meanings which vary from group to group and individual to individual; therefore the following terms should not be taken as bricks in a road, unalterable and immovable, but rather as marks I have left behind me as I have made my own singular journey. It is quite likely that many of these terms will have an entirely different significance to another traveler in the uncharted territory of transgender identity.

This document has grown sufficiently huge that I have had to break it up into smaller chunks:

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• ABBESS: a female head of an abbey; a madam, a procuress, a female pimp (cf abbot, Mary, academician, geek)
• ABBOT: an abbess’ favorite man (cf ponce, bronco, catamite, toyboy, role reversal, john)
• ABODI: (African American) gay male (cf zami)
• ABRAHAM: the penis; the female genitals (cf timothy)
• ABRASIVE: rough, irritating, offensive, tactless, bitchy, a common description of women with masculine personalities (cf bitch, boy, gender variant, hard, ugly, dominant)
• ACADEMY: institutions of higher learning; a brothel, one of many terms denigrating female intelligence (cf bluestocking, nerd, academician, severe)
• ACADEMICIAN: an inhabitant of an academy, a scholar; a prostitute; an intellectuel woman (see academy, bluestocking, nerd)
• ACDC: erotically attracted to men and women (cf bisexual); alternating between masculine and feminine gender expression (cf bisexual, bigendered, bisensual); alternating between top and bottom roles (cf top, bottom, dominant, submissive, switch, middle)
• ACHUMAWI: a tribe of Native Americans in California having female to male transgendered persons, whose tribal name is unknown (cf true spirit, kurami, berdache, manly-hearted woman)
• ADVENTUROUS HETOROSEXUAL: a person who identifies as a heterosexual but is willing to experiment with more than the ‘man on top missionary position’ socially approved sex; a bisexual or bisensual person who is primarily oriented towards the opposite sex, but who also enjoys erotic interaction with members of the same sex (cf asexual, bisexual, bisensual, homosexual, heterosexual, monosexual, pansexual); a heterosexual who is willing to experiment with role reversal or crossdressing in themselves or their partner (cf bigendered, transfan, trans hag, tranny hawk, t bird, crossdresser, transgendered, pangendered)
• AIDS: Aquired Immune Difficiency Syndrome, a sexually transmitted disease which can also be transmitted via dirty needles and unscreened blood transfusions, gay f2ms working as hustlers are at risk, as is anyone who engaged in unsafe practices (cf gay f2m, hustler)
• AFTER MARKET: a female to male transsexual who has had genital surgery, as opposed to biological men who are ‘factory equipped’ (see factory equipped, frankendick, SRS)
• AGULE: (Lugbara African) female to male transgendered priests (cf Nandi, Nuer, Lovedu, Babamba, Mindossi, Lovale, Mende, Ibo)
• AGYALE: (Nzema African) ‘friendship marriage’, usually between an adult male and a teenage male, but also between two women
• AIONOLIT: (Hebrew) “which is the female counterpart to a eunuch, or gay man. The Talmud translations in English call aionolit a barren woman, but the context shows that it’s talking about FTM transgenders and lesbians.”–Faris
• AJUAGO: (Shilluk African) a female shaman who could have lovers but not marry
• ALPHA FEMALE: a dominant or assertive woman, a woman boss, the leader among a group of females; (scientific) previously referred to the heirarchy among animals, now used to type human beings (cf bitch, boss, boss girl, alpha male, top cow)
• ALPHA MALE: a dominant or assertive man, the leader among a group of males; an f2m transsexual with a leadership position; previously used by scientists to refer to the animal(s) at the top of heirarchy, eg, wolves, now used to type human beings, eg, ‘alpha geek’ the most knowledgeable computer expert (cf bitch, boss, boss girl, alpha female)
• ‘ALMAH: (Hebrew ‘female lad’, tomboy) “There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle into the sky, the way of a snake into a rock, the way of a ship into the heart of the sea, and the way of a man with an ‘almah.”–Proverbs 30:18-19
• ALTERNATELY GENDERED: gender variant; transgendered (cf)
• AMAZON: (ancient Greek) a legendary woman warrior; a masculine woman; the term is also applied to women of other cultures, such as the Dohomeans of West Africa, whose women supposedly cut off their right breast to facilitate drawing their bows; and esp to the warrior women of Tupinambo, South America, which resulted in the Amazon River being named after them (see Amazon-soldieress, sir, butch, virago, dykeosaurus, Califia, androgynae, ithyphalloi, Kaineus, Athena, hermaprodite, Dice, Eros, muscle moll, amazon neurosis, goddess, Goddess Grace, valkyrie)
• AMAZON-SOLDIERESS: (Dahomey African) a regular corp of female warriors numbering approximately 2400 in 1850, originally drawn from the criminal elements (adulterous wives, women convicted of capital crimes and misdemeanors, etc), later drawn from all aspects of society, most were alleged to be virgins, though a corp of female prostitutes was kept for their use (cf. Amazon) “As the blacksmith takes an iron bar and by fire changes its fashion, so we have changed our nature. We are no longer, we are men.”–Amazon-soldieress chief, quoted by Frederick Forbes, 1849-50;
• AMAZON NEUROSIS: failure to accept the socially decreed norm that women are feminine, passive, and attractive to men and instead manifesting aggressive or militarnt attitudes (cf Amazon, ballbreaker, butch, gender variant, Xena complex)
• AMERICAN BOYZ: the largest grassroots f2m organization, for people “assigned female gender at birth who feel that is not an adequate of complete description of who they are” (cf boyz, boyzzz)
• AMBIGUOUS GENDER: a person of indeterminate gender (see androgyne, epicene, variant expressive, bigendered, omnigendered, gender variant, polygendered, inner sex)
• AMBISEXUAL, AMBISEXTROUS: erotically attracted to both sexes, bisexual (cf bisgendered, bisensual, bisexual, pansexual)
• AMOROSO: a male lover, esp the partner of an older woman (cf ponce, boy, majo, kept man)
• AMRI YA MUUNGU: (Zanzibar African) ‘the will of God’, the belief that inborn homosexuality is an act of God, and hence tolerable, in contrast to the belief that male prostitution is a chosen sin, and hence, intolerable (cf walevi, hawapendzezwi na nguo za kike)
• AMY-JOHN: a masculine lesbian; an Amazon (cf Amazon, muscle moll, butch)
• ANATOMY: the human body, esp those parts not visible under clothing; the genitals
• ANDANDARA: (Zande) a species of wild cat, considered to be female, and linked with lesbians and witches, the three of which were considered to engage in sex with one another, thereby causing bad luck and disaster for any male who associated with them or witnessed their acts (cf bagbaru, kaima)
• ANAJIFICHA: (Zanzibar African, Swahili ‘lit. ‘s/he is hiding’): to be closeted (cf. yuko wazi)
• ANDI: an andrognymous person, used by members of adrogynous communities to refer to other androgynous people (cf androgyne)
• –ANDRO: having male or masculine characteristics
• ANDROCENTRIC: phallocentric; centering around men or masculinity; f2m-centric (cf ftm, f2m, ftm-centric, transman, phallic woman)
• ANDROCRACY: rule by men or males, patriarchy; sexism by female to male transsexuals towards genetic women
• ANDRODYKE: ‘androgynous dyke’, a lesbian of indeterminate shape; ‘butch lite’, (see butch, androgyne, dike, dyke, epicene, hermaphrodyke, transdyke)
• ANDROGEN: any of the steroid hormones that develop and mantian masculine characteristics (cf testosterone, t boy, the big t)
• ANDROGENIZE: to treat with large doses of male hormones (cf androgen, testosterone, transsexual, f2m)
• ANDROSTERONE: one of the male sex hormones (cf testosterone)
• ANDROGYNE: a person with physical traits of male and female; a hermaphrodite; a person with an ambiguous gender; a pseudo-hermaphrodite; a person with a male physique and female genitals; an intersexed or transgendered person with a masculine appearance and feminine genitals, as distinguished from hermaphrodites (see ambiguous gender, epicene, variant expressive, bigendered, omnigendered, gender variant, polygendered, inner sex, hermaphrodite, angel)
• ANDROGYNAE: (ancient Greece) another name for Amazons (see Amazon, androgyne)
• ANDROGYNATION: (historical) sexual intercourse between male and female
• ANDROGYNOUS/ANDROGYNY: having characteristics of both male and female (cf androgyne, hermaphrodite, angel) “Now the sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two, having a name corresponding to this double nature, which once had a real existence, but now is lost, and the word ‘Androgynous’ is only preserved as a term of reproach.”–Plato, from the Symposium (cf genderbending, epicene, bisexual, hermaprodite, androgyne)
• ANDROPHOBIA: fear and hatred of men; the belief that there is something inherently wrong with men which is the cause of all the ills in the world (cf misandrist)
• ANGEKOK: (Greenlandic Eskimo) an Eskimo magician or medicine worker, esp a male or masculine one (cf kurami, White Whale Woman, true spirit)
• ANGEL: an androgynous spirit of Christian, Jewish, or Moslem mythology having both masculine and feminine traits, generally represented as having beardless faces, flat chests, and flat genitalia, and dressed in male garb–and bearing a strong ressemblence to transsexual men once they have taken testosterone and/or had their chests reduced (cf androgyne, hermaphrodite, f2m, fallen angel); a supportive person, esp a financial backer of an enterprise; a male homosexual as either a top or bottom, esp one who financially supports other homosexuals, a sugar daddy; a gay f2m who take the same roles, a leader in the f2m community (cf saint, daddy); an androgyne; a mysterious image on a radar screen, an enemy aircraft, an intimidating but admired person (cf spitfire, virago, saint); in modern mythology, a reinvention of the angel motif to a embody a positive attitude toward sexuality, sexual minorities, and transgendered people–modern angels are often portrayed in fiction and art as androgynous bisexual or gay males (cf androgyne, angelic, angelina, archangel, fallen angel, epicene, bigendered, saint, secular preacher)
• ANGELIC: of or pertaining to angels, featuring androgynous, spiritual, positive, or supportive characteristics (cf angel, archangel, saint)
• ANGELINA: a catamite; a receptive sex partner of any gender (cf angel, angelic, archangel, ponce, submissive): a gay male or transman that supports one or more other men or transmen (cf daddy)
• ANTI-BOD: a scrawny man or fat woman (cf bod)
• APACHE: a tribe of Native Americans in the Southwest having female to male transgendered persons, whose tribal name is unknown (cf «ndŽ?dzan, kurami, berdache, manly-hearted woman)
• APHRODITE: (ancient Greece) goddess of love and beauty who was worshiped by crossdressed men and women (cf goddess, Athena, Eros, Hermaphrodite, Amazon)
• ARCHANGEL: a high ranking angel; a powerful person (see angel, angelic, saint)
• ARTICHOKE: a debauched woman; an ugly old woman; a diseased or ugly prostitute (cf beldame, horse, slut)
• ASEXUAL: an orientation in which a person chooses to avoid sexual activity and sexual identification (cf autosexual, bisexual, bisensual, pansexual, monosexual, homosexual)
• ASSINIBOIN: a tribe of Native American in the Great Plains who had female to male transgendered persons, whose tribal name is unknown (cf kurami, manly-heartedly woman, true spirit)
• ASSISTANT TOP: a person who assists a top, also referred to as a ‘junior top’ or a ‘top in training’ (cf top, dom, domme, master, SM)
• ASSUMED MASCULINITY: (20th century US) the use of masculine pronouns and words to indicate both male and female persons, with the result that females must be specifically mentioned for clarification (cf brother, sir); the obliteration of neutral or inclusive language and words from minority or historical traditions by the dominant culture, with the result that the feminine presence that was once an integral part of the meaning is replaced by a masculine assumption
• ASTROLOGY: (Dogon African) a profession in which gay people are supposed to excell (cf. gatekeeper)
• ATARGATIS: ancient Middle Eastern deity whose rites included crossdressing; also known as Astarte, her name and attributes were perverted by Christians who made her into a male demon named Astaroth
• ATHANASIAN FELLOWSHIP: sexually active people, esp those that advocate for sexual freedom, from ‘Athanasian wench’, a prostitute, from the Christian Athanasian Creed, which begins with the words, “Whosover desires…”
• ATHENA: (ancient Greece) goddess of wisdom, sometimes represented as a man, or as wearing male clothing (cf Amazon, Eros, Aphrodite, Hermaphrodite, ithyphalloi)
• AUNT NANCY MAN: (19th century) a male supporter of women’s suffrage (cf pussy whipped, The Boss, cotquean, role reversal, goddess, goddess worship, Amazon neurosis, nancy)
• AUTOSEXUAL: one whose significant sexual involvement is with oneself; someone who prefers mastubation over partnered sex (cf asexual, bisexual, homosexual, heterosexual, lesbian, gay)
• AXOTI: (Dahomey African) the practice of massaging and enlarging the lips of the vagina (cf long labia)
• BAA: (Navajo American) a woman warrior; a Navajo woman’s name; a woman with masculine characteristics, a tomboy, who was not nadle (cf nadle, nadle___baa, nadle___bass dilbaa, situational gender identity, true spirit, kurami, winkte)
• B-GIRL: euphemism for butch lesbian
• BABAMBA: (Congo) an African people known to have had female husbands or male daughters (cf agule, Nandi, Nuer, Lovedu, Babamba, Mindossi, Lovale, Mende, Ibo)
• BABY BUTCH: a woman starting to attempt a butch role; a newly out masculine lesbian (see butch, lipstick butch, butch dagger)
• BACHELOR: an unmarried man; an unmarried masculine woman; gradually replacing bachelorette for any unmarried woman
• BACHELORETTE: an unmarried woman; an unmarried masculine woman
• BACKWARDS DAY: (modern Native American) a form of protest in which Native American women who have been subjected to sexism by other Native Americans spend the day with their clothing turned around backwards and their braids over their faces, the behavior is mildly contrary (cf Contrary)
• BADE: (Crow American ‘not man, not woman’) a transgendered person (cf kurami, sacred person, wintke, manly-hearted woman, bedache)
• BAGBARU: (Zande African) lesbian, either of two women who entered into a in which one was the husband and the other the wife (cf kaima)
• BAIT: an effeminate gay man or butch lesbian who acts as a look out and lures police away from same-sex activity, presumably because of the assumption that an effeminate man or butch woman will excite suspicion and hence be able to decoy the police (cf fribble, gender police)
• BALDING: among heterosexuals baldness is often construed as a sign of diminishing virility and lessening of personal power, while among gay men it is often seen as a sign of virility and dominance; a common side effect of testosterone use in female to male transsexuals (cf bear, virile)
• BALL-BEARING: possessing testicles (cf packing)
• BALL-BEARING STEWARDESS: a male flight attendent; a transsexual flight attendent
• BALLSY: possessing testicles; gutsy, cocky, impudent
• BALL-BREAKER: a female who is threatening to men (cf bitch, dog, boss, dominant, goddess, butch, man-eater)
• BARE-ASSED: with a naked ass, unclothed; with a hairless ass, a male or female without much body hair (cf boy, shave-tail, smooth faced boy)
• BASEMENT TRANSVESTITE: (Alison Laing, 1989) a crossdresser who has come out of the closet in personal circles, but has not come out publicly. (cf crossdresser, transvestite, closet, out)
• BASHA: (Zanzibar African) a male authority figure; the king in a deck of playing cards; a masculine, straight-acting male who assumes the dominant role in gay sex (cf. shoga)
• BASTARD: an obnoxious f2m, ‘just goes to show, you don’t have to have a prick to be a prick’
• BATTLE AXE: an aggressive, militant or ugly woman, often referred to as ‘the old battle axe’ (see beldame, bitch, amazon, cotquean, dog, dykeosaurus, horsefaced, manly-hearted woman, ogress, spitfire, virago, warrior woman)
• BDSM: bondage, dominance, sado-masochism, leathersex; any form of kinky or non-standard sexuality, including crossdressing and role reversal, and other gender based sexual variations (cf crossdressing, role reversal, forced masculinization)
• BEAR: a hairy, fleshy, large, virile man, esp in the gay male community; a woman with the same attributes; a grumpy person (cf she-bear, sir, master, top, dom, bottom, submissive, yonic, forced masculinization, intersexed, testosterone)
• BEARD: facial hair; in Western cultures it is associated only with males, though it occurs in small numbers of females of Caucasian descent; among some peoples (Native American, Asian) beards on males are scant, while among some peoples, beards are considered desirable for both males and females (ancient Egypt, females of high status wore artificial beards) (cf transsexual, testosterone, polycystic ovarian disease)
• BEARDED WOMAN: a person with a male body who identifies as a woman; a person with a female body who has been taking testosterone and has acquired a beard; a woman with a naturally high level of testosterone resulting in facial hair (see beldame, intersexual, transsexual, bear)
• BELDAME: (historical) a grandmother, any remote ancestress; a post-menospausal woman with virilization of her secondary sexual traits, such as facial hair and rough voice; eg, Macbeth’s witches (see bearded woman)
• BERDACHE, BARDACHE: (French-Arabic) slave boy, male prostitute, eunuch; (among Native Americans) a derogatory term for a person who lives wholly or partially as a member of the opposite sex, if bi-gendered may have apparel, name, and family for each gender identity; each tribe has its own terms and customs for such people, but white people usually lump them all together under the derogatory and erroneous term ‘berdache’; further, white people improperly assume all ‘berdaches’ to be gay or lesbian (see wintke, kurami, nadle, ninauposkitzipspe, manly hearted woman, moroni noho, White Whale Woman, Woman Chief, cross dresser, transvestite, transsexual) “The berdache was often the tribe or band’s medicine man, doctor, story teller, matchmaker, or leading scalp dancer.”–Maurice Kenny (Mohawk American), 1988
• BERDACHE KACHINA: a ceremonial role among the Hopi passed down through a particular family or families, the kachina was represented with a yucca blossom and an eagle feather, and was embodied by transgendered persons (cf berdache, true spirit, kurami, winkte)
• BERING STRAIT ESKIMO: a tribe of Native Americans having female to male transgendered persons, whose tribal name is unknown (cf kurami, manly-heartedly woman, true spirit)
• BI: bisexual; bisensual; bigendered; bi-curious (cf)
• BI-COASTAL: bisexual; on two coasts, a reference to the split between the f2m organizations focused in the North/West versus the f2m organizations focused in the South/East
• BI-CURIOUS: a person who is curious about the possibility of experiencing a same-sex interaction (cf queer, questioning, bisexual, bisensual, adventurous heterosexual, queer-friendly)
• BIFURCATED: (19th century US) feminine clothing with legs, as in ‘bifurcated skirts’ (split skirts) fiercely opposed by the social morals of the day, the wearing of such garments could result in arrest or being beaten up, such clothing was commonly worn by cowgirls (cf California riding costume, bloomer, upper-ten, crossdressing, trousers, cowgirl)
• (THE) BIG T: testosterone, esp, testosterone given intramuscularly to female to male transsexuals (cf t boy, testosterone, androgen)
• BIGENDERED: having two genders, exihibiting cultural characteristics of male and female roles; alternating between masculine and feminine roles (see ambiguous gender, epicene, variant expressive, androgyne, omnigendered, gender variant, polygendered, inner sex, pandgendered) “We all possess both maculine and feminine characteristics in our body. For example, in a tragic situation, being a man, the female characteristics are elicited. The same is true for the woman. Some situation happens and it elicits the male, and she acts like a man. For that reason, because you need both, you have male and female characteristics.”–D.B. (Navajo)
• BIMBO: (Italian) a young man, an adolescent boy (cf boy, man); (American) (now obsolete) a macho or muscular man; (current usage) a sexually attractive but not too bright woman; a sexually attractive, but not too bright man, also ‘male bimbo’ (cf boy, boytoy, yonic man, MSO)
• BIO BOY: a genetic male, esp one who takes a receptive role in erotic encounters (cf factory equipped, boy, boytoy)
• BINARY GENDER SYSTEM: a system in which only two gender roles are recognized (cf sexual apartheid)
• BINDING, BINDER: the act of using some sort of restraint to flatten and conceal the breasts (cf drag king, male impersonator, crossdressing, stippling, packing, elevator shoes)
• BIPHOBIA: oppression of bisexuals and bisexuality, either by heterosexuals or by homosexuals (cf bisexual, bisensual, heterosexual, monosexual, homosexual)
• BISENSUAL: having an appreciation for sensuous but not sexual contacts with two genders
• BISEXUAL: having features of two sexes (see bigendered, intersexual, transgendered); erotically attracted to two sexes, a typical pattern is for bisexuals to be attracted to very masculine men and very feminine women, but this is not a universal pattern (cf bisensual, sex-blind, pansexual, homosexual, asexual, ambisexual, heterosexual, monosexual); a tomboy (cf tomboy, feminine facade, feminized phallus)
• BITCH: a female dog or other female animal; a woman who won’t take shit from men (see megabitch, bullbitch, boss girl, bitchy, ball-breaker, dragon lady, phallic woman); a catamite, one of the most common terms likening a yonic man to a female (cf ponce, catamite, toyboy, submissive, bottom, yonic man)
• BITCHY: sexually provocative, ‘like a bitch in heat’; malicious, catty, aggressive; when used of males, acting like a bitch, either in a verbal or sexual manner (cf bitch, boss girl, bullbitch,)
• BLACK TRIANGLE: (mid 20th century German) a badge applied by Nazis to lesbians incarcerated in concentration camps; (modern usage) a symbol of lesbian pride
• BLOKA EGLA WA KE: (Lakota Sioux American) “thinks she can act like a man”, (cf koskalaka, koskalaka winyan, winkte, winkte winyan, true spirit, kurami) “in striving and excelling in such masculine achievements as riding horses and owning and providing for cattle and ultimately family and tiospaye [extended family grouping]”–Beatrice Medicine (Standing Rock Lakota Sioux)
• BLOOMER: (19th century US) a mode of dress for women introduced in 1851 by Amelia Bloomer as a healthier alternative to the long skirts and corsets then in vogue, it consisted of ‘bloomers’ (similar to harem pants) worn under a short skirt (cf upper-ten, bifurcated); “The Bloomer was an uncouth being, her hair, cut level with her eyes, depended with the graceful curve of a drake’s tail around the flat Turanian countenance, whose only expression was sullen insolence. The body-dress, glazed brown calico, fitted her somewhat like a soldier’s tunic, developing haunches which would be admired only in venison.”–Sir Richard Burton, 1860 [‘Turanian’ is a now obsolete word for several tribes of Asiatic peoples in Eastern Europe; it is not clear whether the observed person was East European, or was being likened to a one, in either case this is a racist as well as a sexist remark.–ed]
• BLUESTOCKING: (18th century England) a man who attended literary assemblies; a rude term for a woman who affected literary or intellectuel or political interests (cf nerd, academy)
• BOB: ‘battery operated boyfriend’ euphemism for a vibrator (cf dildo, prosthesis, phallus, strap on dildo)
• BOD: somebody with an attractive body (cf anti-bod)
• BODY DYPSHORIA: body image disorder in transsexual persons, which in its extreme forms can lead to self-mutilation or suicide (cf GID, transsexual)
• BODY FASCIST: a person who takes upon himself to define and enforce what bodies are supposed to look like, and who uses medical, legal, religious and social pressures to create an environment in which their victims lose control of their bodies and must conform to the dictates of the authorities (cf gender police, pussy patrol)
• BODY MODIFICATION: the alteration of the physical body by extreme exercise, tattoos, piercings, scarification, branding, stretching, hormones, surgery, or other practices (cf urban primitive, queer rebellion)
• BONAE: (Roman) ‘the good people’ male and female crossdressed pagan dancers who had the power to grant prosperity to any house that gave them gifts
• BOON DAGGER: a lesbian; a masculine woman (cf dike, bull dagger, old bull)
• BORDER WARS: the butch-ftm border wars, in which some segments of the butch and ftm communities argued bitterly with each other over the limits of their identities and theories (cf Label Wars)
• BOSS: a man or woman with excellent command of their art or craft; a man or woman with lots of attitude; eg, ‘Mary Chapin Carpenter is one boss lady’ (see bossy, boss girl, bitch, ball-breaker)
• (THE) BOSS: among rural Americans, the wife in a heterosexual marriage (cf boss, boss girl, bossy, maja, majo, roler reversal, pussy whipped, cotquean, goddess, goddess worship)
• BOSS GIRL, BOSS LADY: a bossy or competent woman; the woman in charge; a dominant woman (cf alpha female, boss, bossy, cotquean, lipstick butch, bitch, dragon lady)
• BOSSY: when applied to women, overbearing or domineering (see boss, boss girl, bitch, dragon lady)
• BOTTOM: the receptive partner for sex, not a synonym for passive, bottoms expect to take an equal role in the encounter, though they are on the receiving end (cf dom, domme, top, submissive, yonic, gentleman slut, slut. macho slut)
• BOTTOM SURGERY: the colloquial term for f2m SRS, surgical process of reconstructing female into male genitalia (cf SRS, top surgery, phalloplasty, clitoral release)
• BOXING: a sport that was legal for women until 1860 in the US, then forbidden, and not restored until 1977
• BOY: a masculine or boyish lesbian; a masculine or boyish woman; a woman who takes the ‘boy’ roll in a sexual relationship (see boychick, boychik, transboy, daddy, t boy, boy scout, boytoy, boyish, smooth-faced boy, bio boy, t boy, boyz, boyzzz, gentleman slut)
• BOY-DYKE: a boyish looking, or boy-identified dyke (cf boy, f2m, tomboy, boy-dyke, butch)
• BOY-DYKE-FAG: a boy-dyke who dates other boy-dykes, butch women, or f2ms (cf boy, f2m, tomboy, butch, boy-dyke, female faggot)
• BOYHOLE: the vagina of a female to male transgendered person
• BOY-IN-THE-BOAT: the clitoris (cf rufus)
• BOY SCOUT: a helpful young man, a member of the Boy Scouts of America, or someone who abides by their principles; by extension, a f2m with a traditional masculine gender presentation and mainstream values, esp a helpful one (cf gentleman butch)
• BOYCHICK: a masculine or boyish woman, a woman who takes a male cultural role (see guy, boy, mandyke, passing woman)
• BOYCHIK: (Yiddish American) ‘boy’, a term of endearment for a young male; a boychick (cf boy, boychick, transboy)
• BOYISH: (used for either males or females) behaving like a boy; behaving in a charmingly submissive and flirtacious manner, inviting sexual advances (cf boy, boychick, boyz, boyzzz, submissive, bottom, poncey, ponce, gentleman slut)
• BOYTOY: a male or female who takes a boy role during erotic encounters (cf boy, boyish, man, submissive, sextoy, toyboy); a woman who is a sextoy for men
• BOYZ: a member of the American Boyz organization for people on the female to male spectrum, their significant others, friends, family, and allies; by extension, any f2m crossdresser, transsexual, or intersexual (see boyzzz, boy, boychick, transboy, t boy, boyish)
• BOYZZZ: a female to male person, not necessarily associated with the American Boyz (see ‘boyz’, ‘boy’ ‘boychick’)
• BRAVE HEART CRY: (Sioux American) the trilling cry of courageous women (cf ohitika win, turtle woman, manly-hearted woman, kurami, true spirit)
• BREECHES: trousers; (17th century English theatre) a role played by a woman in male apparel (cf page)
• BRIMSTONE: (historical) a prostitute, esp a bold or shrewish one (cf spitfire)
• BRONCO: (from Spanish ‘rough horse’) an unruly horse, an horse that must be broken to be ridden; ((early 20th century) a catamite, a gay male bottom (cf punk); (late 20th century) a Western man or cowboy, especially when viewed as a sex object by either men or women (cf MSO, rodeo, cowgirl)
• BROTHER: a male sibling; a male member of a church, fraternal organization, or other group; in some organizations, a term of address for both male and female members (cf sir, guy)
• BROTHERSISTER: an term of address for an androgyne or other person of difficult to determine gender (cf androgyne, transsexual, transgenderist, gender fuck, intersexual)
• BRUMAIWI: (Atsugewi American) a female to male transgendered person (cf kurami, true spirit)
• BUCKAROO: (from the Spanish ‘vaquero’, cowboy) a Californian cowboy or cowgirl (cf she-buckaroo, cowboy girl, cowgirl, Western Amazon, Miss West, she-buckaroo)
• BUFFARILLA: (from ‘gorilla’ and ‘buffalo’) a large, ugly woman (cf muscle moll, ogress, butch, skag)
• BUFFALO CALF ROAD WOMAN: (Cheyenne American) In 1876 at the Battle of the Rosebud, the Cheyenne and Sioux under Crazy Horse were retreating and her brother was abandoned on the field of battle, she dashed out on her pony and rescued him from under the noses of the white men, her courage so heartened the Indians that they rallied and defeated General Crook, henceforth, the Cheyenne referred to the Battle of the Rosebud as ‘Where the Young Girl Rescued Her Brother’; Buffalo Calf Road Woman’s conspicuous act of courage vaulted her out of the usual feminine gender role into warrior status, and eight days later she was one of six females documented to have ridden into battle against Custer, but it is not known how she dressed or referred to herself after this series of events, but she had status equivalent to male warriors though remaining married to her husband Black Coyote (cf kurami, manly-hearted woman, true spirit)
• BULL: an uncastrated male of any bovine species; ‘bull’ is frequently used in fanciful ways to indicate masculinity (cf bull bitch, bull dagger, bull dike, old bull); as a verb, to move like a bull, to act violently or to mistreat, to bully
• BULLY: a child of either sex who torments another child; an adult of either sex who torments a person that is at a disadvantage (cf bull, bull bitch)
• BULL BITCH: a female bulldog, a masculine woman (see bull dagger, bull dike, butch)
• BULL DOGGER: (early 20th century US West) a black steer wrestler, esp Bill Pickens, the black cowboy who invented bulldogging (cf cowboy girl, cowgirl, bull dagger)
• BULL DAGGER: (early 20th century US West) from ‘bull dogger’ a black cowgirl; a masculine black woman; a black lesbian; (late 20th century US) a lesbian of any race, esp a very masculine one (see to dike, dyke, bull bitch, bull dike, dieseldike, butch, cowgirl)
• BULL DIKE, BULLDYKE, BULL DIKER: a bull dogger; a lesbian or masculine woman, esp a butch one (see butch, dyke, see diesel dike)
• BUTCH: toughly masculine, when used for gay men or women, esp lesbians (see stone butch, gentleman butch, mannish, boss girl, lipstick butch, dieseldike, bull bitch, bull dagger, bull dike, tomboy, severe, Amazon)
• BUTCH BOTTOM: a butch woman who prefers to take the receptive role in sex (see butch)
• BUTCH DAGGER: a masculine lesbian (see bull dagger, butch, dyke)
• BUTCH GRRL: a masculine woman, especially a heterosexual one (cf riot grrl, butch, phallic woman, dom, domme)
• BUTCHFEMME: a lesbian; a mannish woman
• BUTCH IT UP, (ALL) BUTCHED UP: adoption of more masculine or macho appearance than is usual, said of either a male or female (see dike, drag)
• BUTCH MAFIA: a community of butch women
• BUTCHOPHOBIA: fear and hatred of butch women (cf butch, homophobia, transphobia)
• BUTCH STRIPTEASE: when drag kings strip down far enough to reveal their female bodies (cf femme pretender, drag king)
• BUYAZI: (Gisu African) a male or female crossdresser, formerly it was not associated with homosexuality, but now it is
• BYKE: ‘bisexual dyke’, a bisexual woman (cf dyke, bisexual)

C-D-E

• CAH: ‘congenital adrenal hyperplasia’, a condition affecting female children, which causes development of the clitoris to a degree that it may ressemble a penis in size, and may be accompanied by development of what appears to be a scrotum, though the child is female and has no testes, at puberty they will develop secondary male characteristics, unless suppressed by medical intervention (cf intersexual, transsexual)
• CALIFIA: (historical) legendary queen of a tribe of Black Amazons in West Africa, the state of California was named after her; (modern) Pat Califia, author of butch erotica and commentary on gender and sexuality
• CALIFORNIA RIDING COSTUME: (19th century US West) splits skirts worn by women for riding, this compromise between female modesty and the practicality of trousers was fiercely resisted, “So great at first was the prjeudice against any divided garment in Montana that a warning was given me to abstain from riding on the streets of Miles City lest I might be arrested! After riding forty-eight miles from the ranch, I was much amused at the laughing and giggling girls who stood staring at my costume.”–Evelyn Cameron
• CARRIER: a tribe of Native Americans having female to male transgendered people, whose tribal name is not known (cf berdache, manly-hearted woman, true spirit, two spirit)
• CASTRATE: to remove the testicles surgically; to remove the ovaries surgically; to expurgate a book; some scientists theorize that castrated animals are more willing to allow themselves to be mounted by males, during the 19th century castration was practiced as a ‘cure’ for homosexuality and masturbation (cf catamite, yonic man, mounting, transsexual)
• CATAMITE: (via Latin ‘Catamitus’ from Greek ‘Ganymedes’) receptive partner for anal sex, esp a boy or young man; a male prostitute or eunuch, esp a feminine one (cf boy, berdache, two-spirit, true spirit, sodomy, gay f2m, submissive, ponce, toyboy, cotquean, meacock, molly)
• CATTLE QUEEN: a successful ranchwoman (cf cowboy girl, cowgirl, Miss West, Western Amazon)
• CELIBATE: not engaging in partnered sex; asexual, neuter, autosexual (cf)
• CHANGE: a person who has had a sex change (cf SRS, transsexual)
• CHANGER: a person who frequently changes gender roles
• CHELXODELEAN(E): (Illinois American) a female to male transgendered person (cf kurami, manly-hearted woman, true spirit)
• CHEYENNE: a tribe of Native Americans having female to male transgendered people, whose tribal name is not known, but who are sometimes called ‘manly-hearted women’ in English (cf kurami, manly-hearted woman, true spirit)
• CHICHIFO: (Mexico) a male hustler; generally they solicit just enough of a financial transaction to make it appear that they are not gay and are just doing it for the money (cf macho, joto, puto, mayate)
• CHINESE AMAZONS: a mythical tribe of Chinese warrior women who took male partners (cf Mulan, Amazon, warrior woman, Ranma, phallic woman, yonic man)
• CHIPEWYAN: a tribe of Native Americans having female to male transgendered people, whose tribal name is not known (cf kurami, manly-hearted woman, true spirit)
• CHUGACH: a tribe of Native Americans having female to male transgendered people, whose tribal name is not known (cf kurami, manly-hearted woman, true spirit)
• CLITORAL RELEASE: a medical technique whereby a clitoris which has been enlarged by taking testosterone can have the labia trimmed and the glans released, accompanied by implants in the labia, which result in a small but passable set of male genitals, it is much less expensive and less likely to have complications than phalloplasty (cf SRS, transsexual, bottom surgery, frankendick, love dart, phalloplasty)
• CLITORECTOMY: (medical) also called clitoroplasty, the surgical reduction of the clitoris; among intersexed individuals, the reduction of a ‘too large’ clitoris to a ‘normal’ size; among certain African tribes, the removal of the clitoris, often accompanied by infibulation, intended to protect the chastity of the child, ‘female circumcision’; surgical reduction of the penis among African is descried by Americans, but routinely practiced by American physicians upon American children whose clitorises are considered ‘too large’ (cf intersex, IGM)
• CLOCKED, TO CLOCK: for a non-transgendered person to detect a transgendered person (cf ping, passing, passing woman, passing man)
• CLOSET: ‘the closet’, the metaphorical place where secrets are kept about identity, eg, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, ethnic background, religion, politics or other issues that are negatively stereotyped and would expose the owner to discrimination and possible violence if it were known that they had such secrets (cf out, coming out)
• CLOTHESHORSE: a frame for drying clothes; a person who is extremely fond of fashionable, fancy, or trendy clothing; a woman with a fetish for male clothing who is unwilling to admit to being a transvestite or crossdresser (cf genderbender, crossdresser, gay woman, fetish)
• CLUELESS: exhibiting unawareness and insensitivity to things that should have been noticed (cf clue, clue factory)
• CLUE: a hint about how to better interact with people to whom one has been insensitive (cf clueless, clue factory)
• CLUE FACTORY: an apocryphal place where clues are manufactuered (cf clueless, clue)
• COCK: a penis; a strap on dildo (cf Trickster, strap on dildo, dick, clitoral release, phalloplasty)
• COCKTEASE: a flirtacious woman who sexually excites a man but does not allow sex; a flirtatious straight man who sexually excites a gay man or transsexual but does not allow sex (cf boy, toyboy, bronco, rodeo)
• COGNITIVE DISSONANCE WEEK: for an ftm who is still menstruating, that period of time in which they have their periods (cf masculine protection, ftm, testosterone)
• COMING OUT: ‘coming out of the closet’, exposing a facet that had been kept hidden due to a fear of rejection, discrimination, or violence; often coupled with self-acceptance after a period of self-hatred (cf closet, out)
• COMPLEMENTARY: (Rroma) the belief that all human beings and spiritual beings have a male side and female side that complement each other, for those that believe in successive lives while passing through the material an spiritual world, the ability to balance male and female is at its greatest when the spirit is most mature, producing an individual who is totally balanced with both sides, with male and female attributes in harmony (cf Rroma, she’ chorne, datha)
• CONDOM JEWELRY: (Maine Native American) Native American jewelry, especially brooches and earrings for women which contain a condom, distributed as part of an AIDS prevention campaign (cf true spirit, kurami)
• CONCUBINE: a woman living in with a man as his wife, but not legally recognized as a wife; a secondary or subordinate wife in a polyagamous relationship; a lesbian domestic partner or wife; gay male domestic partner or wife (cf male concubine)
• CONTRARY SEX: (Zanzibar African) homosexuality
• COOKED: socialized into a particular gender role, either by upbringing, or through transition (cf transgendered, transsexual)
• COOZEY, COOZE, COOCH: a man or esp a woman considered as a sex object, esp for nonorthogenital sex (cf catamite, submissive, bottom, boy, yonic, pervert, ponce); also, any person, esp a man or lesbian fond of coozey (cf tranny hawk, t bird, pervert)
• COPESS: a female cop, a female law enforcement officer
• COTQUEAN: (historical Scottish) an emasculated man, a homosexual; a shrewish woman, a lesbian; either member of a (heterosexual) marriage in which the female dominates the male (see alpha female, quean, molly, tommy, mollycot, molly, meacock, wear the pants)
• COW: a female bovine, by extension, cattle of any sex; one of the few occassions in which the feminine has become the default reference for a group of mixed sexes, usually a masculne term is used; also, a woman, esp an old, fat, or ugly woman, ‘old cow’ (cf cowgirl, bull, top cow, horse-faced, beldame, ogress, slut, bitch)
• COWBOY GIRL: (19th century US West) a female cowboy, later shortened to cowgirl (cf cow, cowgirl, wrangler, hard, Miss West, cattle queen) “This is a deuced fast place. Most independent women here I ever seen.”–Mollie (19th century)
• COWGIRL: (20th century US West) a woman who performed the exact same work as a cowboy; a ranchwoman or female ranch hand who handled livestock, esp cattle, broke horses, competed in the rodeo, or otherwise performed men’s work. Early rodeos allowed competition by women in all events, later women were banned from all events except barrel racing in ARA and PRCA rodeos. IGRA rodeos permit men and women to compete equally in all events. Cowgirls often adopted male attire and masculine or male identities & names (cf bronco, rodeo, cow, cowboy girl, wrangler, hard, cattle queen, Miss West) “I have a great respect for ladies. Especially those with revolvers.”–anonymous, 1950s
• COWPOKE: a cowboy or a cowgirl (cf cowboy girl, cowgirl, Western Amazon, Miss West, buckaroo)
• COYOTE: (Native American) Native American Trickster god some times portrayed as male, some times as female, sometimes as straight, gay, lesbian, or crossdresser of either gender, in some stories he carries his penis in a box on his back (cf berdache, kurami, true spirit, two spirit, strap on dildo, Coyote scam, crazy wisdom)
• COYOTE SCAM: (late 20th century Native American) a con job performed by a modern Coyote in order to teach a lesson, they generally consist of Coyote acting out exaggerated expressions of stereotypes believed by his audience and can generally be detected by Coyote’s assertion that if you send him money he will validate your existence and make you into a real life imitation of whatever it is you think you want to be (cf Coyote, crazy wisdom)
• CREATOR: (from Sioux wakan takan, ‘great mystery’, usually rendered in English as either Great Spirit or Creator) the supreme deity, personified as the Creator of the world and all things in it, a hermaphrodite being that brought forth men and women from Its own body (cf Double Woman, kurami, winkte, true spirit)
• CREATURE: (19th century US West) term of contempt used by white people for transgendered Native Americans, esp Yellow Head of the Ojibwa tribe, who wore women’s dress, was courageous in battle, and obnoxious when drunk (cf berdache, winkte, true spirit) “He was famous for once having stood off a whole band of Sioux with nothing but a bow and arrows, while he covered his companion’s retreat to safety.”–O’Meara
• CREE: a tribe of Native Americans having female to male transgendered people, whose tribal name is not known (cf kurami, manly-hearted woman, true spirit)
• CROSSDRESSER, CD: the most neutral word to describe a person who dresses, at least partially, or part of the time, as member of the opposite sex; carries no implications of ‘usual’ gender appearance, or sexual orientation (cf drag king, male impersonator, feminine impersonator, passing woman, XDR, f2m)
• CROSSGENDER: A person who crosses gender distinctions, as opposed to ‘bigender’ somebody who exhibits both masculine and feminine gender identities (cf transgender, bigender)
• CROSSWIRED: gender variant, transgendered, “The whole thing about labels sux! It has caused more confusion in my life than I want to go into now. I am a spiritual being who chooses to follow the goddess in thought & body.”–Pat Earl, m2f prisoner (cf gender variant, transgendered, crossdresser, transsexual); gay, lesbian, or bisexual (cf gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer)
• CROW: a tribe of Native Americans having female to male transgendered people, whose tribal name is not known (cf Woman Chief of the Crow, kurami, manly-hearted woman, true spirit)
• DADDY: a man who takes a parental role in an intimate relationship; a sugar daddy, a man who supports his lover–any orientation (cf angel, angelina); a lesbian or woman who takes a parental male role in an intimate relationship (see boy, top, dom, bear, she-bear, master)
• DANDY: (historical) a well-dressed dressed man (cf all diked out); a flamboyant gay male (cf gay) ; a clotheshorse (cf FTV)
• DATHA: (Lavari Vlax Romani, ‘many paths’) a homosexual; Rroma churches often welcome gays because there is no taboo against homosexuality under Romaniya, however, particular tribes may have taboos as each tribe is autonomous and self-defining, (cf Rom, Rroma, Romaniya, she’chorne, complementary)
• (THE) DEADLIER OF THE SPECIES: the female, after Rudyard Kipling’s poem (cf warrior woman, ball-breaker, bitch, goddess)
• DEFEMINIZE: to make unfeminine; a biological theory that holds that all fetuses begin as female, but male fetuses must be defeminized and also masculinized in order to be come male, abnoramilities in this process are seen as the cause of transsexualism in this theory (cf masculinize)
• DEMONIC POSSESSION: (15th – 17th century Europe and US) the Christian belief that gender and/ore sexuality nonformity was inspired or caused by Satan, leading to old women being persecuted as witches (cf beldames); (20th century US) the belief held by a small number of Christians that gender or sexual nonformity is the result of demonic possession, this is paralleled by youth who use Satanism as a form of rebellion; also, the belief by certain sects of Christians that all non-Christian religions are false religions and all non-Christian deities are demons intent on deceiving human beings, this interpretation is widely advocated by the 700 Club; some modern Christian churches run ‘street missions’ to find homeless, runaway or impoverished lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth whom they can recruit and retrain as model heterosexual Christians; in its more extreme incarnation, deprogrammers kidnap lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons and use a process of medical and/or religious brainwashing to retrain them as conventional heterosexuals (cf reparative therapy, ex-gay)
• DICE, DIKE: (mythological Greek) ‘Dice’, goddess of justice, one of several deities invented to personify natural law; a lesbian (see dyke, Amazon, ithylphalloi, Kaineus, Athena)
• DIKE/DYKE: a ditch, hole, or excavation; the female genitals; a woman; a lesbian (cf dice, dyke)
• DICK: a penis, as opposed to a ‘cock’ ie, a strap on dildo; the enlarged clitoris of a female to male transgendered person who has been taking testosterone (cf Trickster, strap on dildo, cock, testosterone)
• DIESELDIKE: a very masculine lesbian; a woman of any orientation who works as a mechanic (see bull dike, boon dagger, bull bitch, dykeosaurus, butch, bull dagger)
• DILDO: artificial phallus used for sexual stimulation of men or women, in the US they are generally fashioned in the shape of penis or with a slim, neutral cylindrical shape, in other cultures they are quite ornate and may be highly decorated or made in the image of animals and equipped with accessories for additional sensations (cf phallus, prosthesis, strap on dildo, dick, cock, ithyphallic); also, a vibrating dildo, a vibrator
• (TO) DIKE: (nineteenth century) to get dressed up fancily, formerly applied to well-dressed men, eg. ‘all diked out’; later applied to women who adopted masculine apparel (see, dice, dyke, bulldyke, dieseldike); for a woman to wear clothing stereotypically worn by men, eg, uniforms
• DIKE-NWAMI: (Nigeria African, lit. ‘brave woman’) a female person who adopts a man’s role in life, but who is still considered woman
• DIRECT: straight forward, plain spoken in speech and action, often used in the phrase ‘masculine directness’, used for women who do not dissemble, a neutral term, one of the few terms that does not carry a sexual connotation (see bitch, boss, dominant, domme, dom, top)
• DISCORDANT GENITALIA: genitalia that do not match the overall masculine or feminine appearance of a transgendered person (cf after market, testosterone, transsexual, intersexual, SRS, transgendered)
• DOG: an unattractive woman; a masculine woman; (cf horse-faced, handsome, bitch, ogress, jane, unwomanly) alternatively, a person who adopts a dog identity (metaphorical or literal) to provide an interface with a society that disapproves of their sexuality or gender expression (cf zoophilia, furrysex)
• DOM: dominant, esp a person who is sexually dominant, carries an implication of neuter or masculine identity, whether used for males or females; the masculine variant of ‘domme’ (cf boss, bitch, top, daddy)
• DOMINANT: strong, forceful, decisive; erotically aggressive, maintaining the initiative in erotic situations (cf dom, domme, top, daddy, boy, bottom, submissive, yonic, phallic woman, ithyphalloi)
• DOMME: the feminine variant of ‘dom’, a dominant feminine person, usually but not always female; a domina, a dominatrix (cf boss, bitch, goddess, phallic woman, top)
• DOUCHE BAG SHAKER: a man who is supported by a woman
• D.R.A.B: ‘dressed as a boy’ (see drag, drag, D.R.A.G., in drab, trans king, clotheshorse)
• D.R.A.G: ‘dressed as a girl’, attributed to stage directions of Shakespeare’s day, during which period women were forbidden, and so males had to play female roles dressed as a girl (cf drag, D.R.A.B)
• DRAG: A coherent set of apparel that projects a particular image, eg ‘business drag’, ‘cowboy drag’, ‘femme drag’, ‘drag queen’, (cf D.R.A.G., drag king, D.R.A.B., drag queen, f2m drag queen, trans king, clotheshorse)
• DRAG BOY: (Jewish American) a butch lesbian, a drag king (cf drag king, butch, trans king clotheshorse)
• DRAG BUTCH: a a butch female who passes as a heterosexual male (cf butch, stone butch, strict butch, gentleman butch)
• DRAG KING: lesbian variant of ‘drag queen’; a woman who appears as a man on a temporary basis, she may or may not have any masculine expression in her usual life, sometimes appears in an exaggerated way or as part of a public performance (cf crossdresser, male impersonator, feminine impersonator, passing woman, drag queen, f2m drag queen, stippling, binding, trans king, clotheshorse, drag boy)
• DRAG KING PAGEANT: a competition, usually hosted by lesbians, to determine which of various entrants is the most convincing masculine impersonator, transsexuals or other people who have had bodily modifications are usually barred from competing (cf drag king, transsexual, passing woman, passing man, butch, masculine impersonator, trans king)
• DRAG QUEEN: a person, usually a gay male, who dresses up in an exaggeratedly feminine manner as a form of recreation; some women are now participating as drag queens (see also f2m drag queen, crossdresser, transsexual)
• DRAGONFLY LODGE: (Cheyenne American) “In this connection, the Dragonfly is the symbol of the whirlwind, that which connects Mother Earth and Father Sky, the bridge between male and female principles.”–Terry Tafoya (Taos/Warm Springs) (cf true spirit, kurami, winkte)
• DRAGON LADY: a very aggressive woman, an admiring or affectionate term (cf bitch, boss, goddess, ballbreaker)
• DRAMATURGY: the playing out of roles in every day life (cf feminine impersonator, male impersonator, role reversal, gender role)
• DRAWER TEST: a test of femininity used by some feminists and lesbian separatists, to wit, any person who is able to remove her dick and put it in a drawer is welcome, also known as the ‘slam it in the drawer test’ on account of those male-to-female transsexual lesbians who insisted they were perfectly capable of putting their (still attached biological) penis into a drawer (cf dildo, strap on dildo, m2f, gender police, dick, cock)
• DUDINE: (1930s) a female dude, a woman who dressed like a cowgirl but was not; by the 1930 cowgirls were being forced out of rodeo and film and replaced by rodeo queens and dudines; barrel racing is the only rodeo event current open to women outside of the IGRA circuit (cf cowgirl, Western Amazon, bull dagger)
• DYKE, DIKE: a hole, ditch, excavation; a lesbian, esp a masculine lesbian (see dike); a woman wearing masculine clothing, especially uniforms (cf mama bear, to dike)
• DYKE DADDY: a man who enjoys the company of lesbians, espcially butch lesbians (cf trans hag)
• DYKEOSAURUS: an aggressive or very masculine lesbian (see bull dike, butch, bitch)
• DYKETYKE: a boy or young man who enjoys the company of lesbians, especially butch lesbians (cf Dyke Daddy, fag hag)
• EGO-DYSTONIC HOMOSEXUAL: (psychology) a person who has difficulty coping with the fact that they are homosexual (cf ego-dystonic heterosexual)
• EGO-DYSTONIC HETEROSEXUAL: (canting slang) a person who has difficulty coping with the fact that they are heterosexual (cf ego-dystonic homosexual, queer straight)
• ELDER: an older, wiser member of a community; among Native cultures, a person at least thirty years of age, esp a leader (see kurami, true spirit, beldame, bull dike, old bull)
• ELECTROLYSIS: the permanent removal of undesired facial and body hair, principally for female clients who are perceived as too masculine because of their naturally occuring facial or body hair, it is also used by m2f transsexuals to make their appearance more feminine (cf transsexual, butch, severe, premasculine)
• ELEVATOR SHOES: shoes with a thick sole designed to make a short person seem taller (cf passing, drag king, packing, stippling, binding)
• ELXA: (Native American) a transgendered person (cf transgendered, wintke, kurami, berdache, manly-hearted woman)
• EPANGA: (Khoisan African) lover, either a gay male or lesbian (cf. omukeutu, oupanga)
• EPICENE: (19th century, from a Greek root, meaning ‘common’ or ‘shared’) a person of indeterminate shape, an androgyne; an effeminate or bisexual man—Wild Bill Hickok and Oscar Wilde were considered to be epicene (see androgyne, variant expressive, bigendered, omnigendered, gender variant, polygendered, boy, ponce)
• EROS: (ancient Greece) god of love and sex, usually represented as a handsome youth, but also as a hermaphrodite; as Phanes s/he is considered the mother of the world and always represented as a hermaphrodite (cf Amazon, Athena, hermaphrodite, Kaineus, Dice)
• EUNUCH: a male whose testicles or testicles and penis have been removed or never developed (cf intersexual, castrate, catamite, androgyne); (historical Byzantium) a female who lived openly as an effeminate man, considered to be equivalent to a male eunuch, the clitoris might have been removed (cf gay woman, androgyne, angel, passing woman, posestra)
• EX-GAY: a former homosexual, esp one who has been through Christian gender training to become a stereotypical heterosexual (cf demonic possession, reparative therapy)
• EXPERIMENTS OF NATURE: a euphemism for ‘mutations’, especially intersexed people, embodying the idea that there are only two sexes, and that variations are abnormal and undesirable (cf binary gender system, intersex, transsexual)

F-G

• F2M, FTM: abbreviations for ‘female to male’; usually used to identify f2m transsexuals, but also used to identify f2m crossdressers and intersexuals (see transsexual, FTV, WTM, MTM, transman, crossdresser, drag king, intersexual); (West Coast United States) ftm is used only for female to male transsexuals, (East Coast United States) f2m is used in the broader sense (note divergent spellings)
• F2M COMMUNITY: female to male transsexuals as a group; female to male crossdressers, transsexuals and intersexuals as a group; female to male crossdressers, transsexuals, intersexuals, and their significant others, friends, family, and allies a