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Gender or Sexual Identities - the Complexities

* When school boards, city councils, or state legislatures consider adding Sexual Identity as a "civil right" to their non-discrimination policy, first, they must explain what exactly they are referring to.  Part of the problem those arguing for Homosexual-rights, is to make more clear the ambiguity that lies within terms like: Sexual Orientation, Sexual or Gender Identity, Sexual Expression, Familial Relationships.

Second, advocates have been unable to answer what would violate their proposed policy.  

Gender Identities

 
The following terms are used in both popular culture and contemporary academic settings to describe the virtually unlimited manifestations of “gender identity”:
 
Androgeny / Androgenous
Bigendered
Bi Dyke
Boi
Boy
Boydyke
Bro-sis
Butch
ButchDyke
Camp
Cross Dresser (CD)
Cross-Living
Drag (In Drag)
Drag King
Drag Queen
Dyke
FTM or F->M or F2M (Female to Male)
Femme
Femme Dyke
Female
Female Bodied
Female Impersonator (FI)
Fetishistic Transvestite
Gender Illusionist
Gender Neutral
Gender-Bender
Gender-Blender
Genderqueer
Genetic Boy
Genetic Male/Man (GM)
Genetic Female/Woman (GF/GW)
Genetic Girl (GG)
Girl
Grrl
Half-dyke
Hermaphrodite
Heteroflexible
Hir
Intersex
MTF or M->F or M2F (Male to Female)
Male
Male Impersonator
Metamorph
Monogendered
Multigendered
Neuter
No-gendered
Non-op
Omnisexual
Pansexual
Pre-operative Transsexual (Pre-op TS)
Polygendered
Post-operative Transsexual
Queer
Queerboi
Shape Shifter
Stem (a feminine-identified lesbian)
Stud (a masculine-identified lesbian)
Trannyboi
Trannydyke
Trannyfag
Transboi
Transgendered
Transgenderist
Transitioning
Transmale
Transsexual (TS)
Transvestite
Trans-identified
Trisexual
Two-Spirit
Ze
 

A few sources:
  1. Boi or grrl? Pop culture blurs gender lines: From metrosexuals to Ellen, gender-bending goes mainstream, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9556134/
  2.  Carnegie Mellon University Women’s Center (Feminism and Women’s Studies): http://feminism.eserver.org/sexual-gender-identity.txt
  3.  Hans, T. Aaron, Gender Terminology List, Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), Washington, DC.
  4.  Hirschfeld, Scott, Defining Gender in Straight Jackets: Gender Variance in a Pink or Blue World, GLSEN Education Department Resource, 2000.
  5.  Kimball, Linda, A Pink Tufted, Punk Green Android Named Trannyboi, May 12, 2005, www.christian-underground.com.
  6. Siragusa, Nicolette, The Language of Gender, GLSEN Resource Center, October 1, 2001, http://www.glsen.org/templates/resources/record.html?section=18&record=1013
  7. Transgender Terminology: http://www.banyancounselingcenter.com/tsterminology.html