FEM 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Trauma Trigger, Feminist Views On Transgender And Transsexual People, Transmisogyny

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Shoshana Magnet

Document Summary

Abled/enabled person: someone who is not disabled at all by society. Generally inclusive of these: hearing, sighted, ambulatory, neurotypical, allistic (non autistic), able bodied and able minded. Agender: a term that describes people who lack a gender, or are without gender. (some other terms that may or may not be used as synonyms are genderless, gender neutral, non-binary etc. ) Whether dfab or dmab (designated female/male at birth), someone can still identify as agender. Aromantic: a person who does not experience romantic attraction. Audism: oppression of deaf folks, related to deaf culture. Asexual: a person who does not experience sexual attraction. Cis/cisgender: people who, for the most part, identify with the sex they were assigned at birth. Cissexism: assumptions or erasure of trans folk that people do without thinking about it. Concern trolling: someone posing as an ally, who feigns concern for individual/collective behaviors, and thinks they know what"s best.