Message from Pastor Mori
Dear Ravenswood Fellowship Family
As we celebrate Pride Month, I want to share a guide to gender identity terms.
Proper use of gender identity terms expresses the equality and acceptance of transgender and nonbinary people. I hope this glossary of terms relating to gender identity will help us to communicate accurately and respectfully with each other.
The original source for this is NPR's, "A Guide To Gender Identity Terms."
Gender identity is one's own internal sense of self and their gender, whether that is man, woman, neither or both. Unlike gender expression, gender identity is not outwardly visible to others."
Gender expression is how a person presents gender outwardly, through behavior, clothing, voice or other perceived characteristics. Society identifies these cues as masculine or feminine, although what is considered masculine or feminine changes over time and varies by culture.
Cisgender, or simply cis, is an adjective that describes a person whose gender identity aligns with the sex they were assigned at birth.
Transgender, or simply trans, is an adjective used to describe someone whose gender identity differs from the sex assigned at birth. A transgender man, for example, is someone who was listed as female at birth but whose gender identity is male.
Nonbinary is a term that can be used by people who do not describe themselves or their genders as fitting into the categories of man or woman. A range of terms are used to refer to these experiences; nonbinary and genderqueer are among the terms that are sometimes used.
Agender is an adjective that can describe a person who does not identify as any gender.
Gender-expansive is an adjective that can describe someone with a more flexible gender identity than might be associated with a typical gender binary.
Gender transition is a process a person may take to bring themselves and/or their bodies into alignment with their gender identity. It's not just one step. Transitioning can include any, none or all of the following: telling one's friends, family and co-workers; changing one's name and pronouns; updating legal documents; medical interventions such as hormone therapy; or surgical intervention, often called gender confirmation surgery.
Gender dysphoria refers to psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one's sex assigned at birth and one's gender identity. Not all trans people experience dysphoria, and those who do may experience it at varying levels of intensity.
For more gender terms glossary please check the "Human Rights Campaign," website at https://www.hrc.org/resources/glossary-of-terms
or a University of California San Francisco link at https://lgbt.ucsf.edu/glossary-terms
I hope we might use accurate terms with fairness, integrity and respect to share God's love with each other.
Again, Happy Pride Month!
Blessings
MORI
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