Social Dysphoria: Meaning, Triggers, and Gender Context
Social dysphoria is gender-related distress caused by incorrect names, pronouns, titles, roles, assumptions, or social treatment.
Deadname Privacy: Meaning, Consent, and Protection
Deadname privacy is the protection of a person’s former name from unnecessary use, access, or disclosure without permission.
Transphobia: Meaning, Discrimination, Misgendering, and Effects
Transphobia is prejudice, hostility, stereotyping, or discrimination directed toward transgender, nonbinary, and gender-diverse people.
Deadnaming: Meaning, Examples, Privacy, and Respect
Deadnaming is the use of a transgender or gender-diverse person’s former name, whether accidentally or as intentional identity denial, exposure, or harassment.
Anti-Trans Speech: Meaning, Forms, and Harmful Effects
Anti-trans speech targets transgender people through prejudice, slurs, deliberate misgendering, identity denial, invasive remarks, exclusion, or threats.
Transphobic Speech: Meaning, Examples, and Harmful Effects
Transphobic speech targets transgender people through insults, deliberate misgendering, identity denial, invasive remarks, stereotypes, threats, or exclusion.
Misgendering: Meaning, Examples, and Respectful Correction
Misgendering means referring to someone with language that does not match their gender identity. Learn how it happens and how to correct it respectfully.