Glossary

If a word or term within our blog does not make sense to you – or its explanation doesn’t – you are welcome to let us know and we will add it to the glossary or try to explain it better.

agender: People, who do not have a gender, can call themselves agender.

asexual: People, who feel little or no sexual attraction to other people, can call themselves asexual.

aromantic: People, who feel little or no romantic attraction to other people, can call themselves aromantic.

cis: People, whose gender is the same as the one which was assigned to them at birth, are cis.

dyadic: Dyadic people are people, whose physical characteristics conform to the medical norms of unambiguously male or female bodies.

enby: Short for nonbinary, stems from the pronounciation of the spelling of nb (/ˈɛn/ + /bi/). Not all nonbinary people like this acronym, therefore it should never be used to identify others – just as with all terms, that describe marginalized gender and/ or sexual identities – but only in accordance with the self identification of people.

enby*misia: This means hostility towards nonbinaryness and/ or nonbinary people. The term enby*phobia might be more widely known. As we do not describe a phobia (fear) but rather hateful hostility, we use -misia (from Ancient Greek, μῑσέω [mīséō] “to hate”) which might be known to you from the word misogyny (hate/ hostility towards women and/ or femininity).

endo: Endo people are people, whose physical characteristics conform to the medical norms of unambiguously male or female bodies.

inter*: Inter* people are people, whose physical characteristics do not match the medical ideas of unambiguously male or female bodies but are rather viewed as being in a spectre between those.

inter*misia: This means hostility towards inter*ness and/ or inter* people. The term inter*phobia might be more widely known. As we do not describe a phobia (fear) but rather hateful hostility, we use -misia (from Ancient Greek, μῑσέω [mīséō] “to hate”) which might be known to you from the word misogyny (hate/ hostility towards women and/ or femininity).

nonbinary: People who are not or not completely male or female can call themselves nonbinary.

queer*misia: This means hostility towards queer*ness and/ or queer* people. The term queer*phobia might be more widely known. As we do not describe a phobia (fear) but rather hateful hostility, we use -misia (from Ancient Greek, μῑσέω [mīséō] “to hate”) which might be known to you from the word misogyny (hate/ hostility towards women and/ or femininity).

trans*: People whose gender is not the same as that, which was assigned to them at birth, can call themselves trans*.

trans*misia: This means hostility towards trans*ness and/ or trans* people. The term trans*phobia might be more widely known. As we do not describe a phobia (fear) but rather hateful hostility, we use -misia (from Ancient Greek, μῑσέω [mīséō] “to hate”) which might be known to you from the word misogyny (hate/ hostility towards women and/ or femininity).