Gender affirming surgery [12]
| Top surgery | Surgery that removes or augments breast tissue and reshapes the chest to create a more masculine or feminine appearance for transgender and non-binary people |
| Bottom surgery | Reconstructive surgery designed to alter a person’s physical appearance to resemble that of the gender they identify with. Surgeries include vaginoplasty (with and without total hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy), phalloplasty or metoidioplasty |
| Facial feminisation surgery | A range of surgeries designed to change the shape of the face to look more feminine. Surgeries include lip and cheek augmentation, rhinoplasty, and jaw and chin reshaping |
| Facial masculinisation surgery | A range of surgeries designed to change the shape of the face to look more masculine. Surgeries include Adam’s apple augmentation, rhinoplasty, and jaw and chin augmentation |
Glossary of trans terms [1,2]
| Cisgender | Someone whose gender identity is the same as the sex they were assigned at birth |
| Deadnaming | The act of referring to a trans or non-binary person by the name they were assigned at birth |
| Gender affirmation | A process (medical, social and/or legal) an individual undergoes to change their assigned gender at birth to match their perceived gender |
| Gender dysphoria | Distress that is caused by a discrepancy between a person’s gender identity and that person’s sex assigned at birth |
| Misgendering | Referring to a transgender or non-binary person using a pronoun or form of address that does not reflect their gender identity |
| Non-binary | Having a gender identity that does not conform to the traditional binary beliefs about gender. Individuals who do not identify as either male of female. |
| Pass/Passing | When someone is perceived as the gender they identify with rather than their sex assigned at birth |
| Third gender | A concept in which individuals are categorised, either by themselves of by their society, as neither male nor female |
| Transgender (Trans) person | A person whose gender identity does not match the sex assigned to them at birth |
| Trans man | A person who was assigned female at birth (AFAB) but who lives and identifies as a man |
| Trans woman | A person who was assigned male at birth (AMAB) but who lives and identifies as a woman |
| Two-spirit person | Two-spirit people are born either male or female, and sometimes intersex, and identify as a person of the opposite gender or of neither |