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* A [[Crossdresser]] is someone who wears clothing stereotypically associated with a different gender than their experienced gender, such as a man dressing as a woman (which is specifically called a [[Drag Queen]]). Crossdressers are ''not'' the same as trans people; unlike drag queens, who are men, trans women are women. At the same time, there is no way to distinguish between crossdressers and trans people except by who tells you that they are a crossdresser and who tells you that they are trans. Drag queens can look just as if not more feminine than even cis women.
** At the same time, historical trans people (from around the mid-20th century) would have self-identified as "transvestites" (an older term for cross-dressers) or "drag queens" at the time, both because the term "transgender" wasn't in common use at the time and because of historical oppression of trans people. This is why many figures from that era who identified as such (such as Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera) are commonly identified as transgender people in hindsight today. It's worth noting that an unknown transvestite kicked off the the famous Stonewall riots by refusing to show her genitals to police (yes, that was a thing), and in general trans people (often self-identifying as transvestites) were at the forefront of LGBTQ+ liberation.
* It's worth noting the various "LGBT" acronyms. All variations use the same letters which stand for the same things, but some use more letters to be more inclusive of gender and sexual minorities, and some less common ones sort them in a different order. Currently{{when}} the largest acronym in common use is "LGBTQIA+", but "LGBTQ+" is the most common form. The commonly seen "+" is added to the end of the acronym to denote that unlisted gender and sexual minorities are included as well. Those letters stand for
** All kinds of people choose differing lengths in the acronym for various benign reasons, but one practice that is always met with suspicion is when someone ''omits'' the "T" from the acronym. This is particularly egregious because inclusion of the "T" has a long history and typically the only reason to remove it is to attempt to marginalize trans people. This is especially common with [[TERF|TERFs]]<ref>Trans Exclusionary Radical [[Straw Feminist|Feminists]]</ref> and especially transphobic "political lesbians".
* "Transphobia" is prejudice against trans people in general, and "enbyphobia" is prejudice against nonbinary people specifically. Another term you might come across is "transmisogyny", which generally refers specifically to prejudice against trans women.
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