Twitter’s chief executive officer Elon Musk raised eyebrows this week when he declared that a gender identity term is now no longer welcome on the platform. The billionaire, who is also the CEO of ...

We all know there are terms and labels for people in the queer community. Some have to do with someone’s sexuality—gay, lesbian, bisexual, etc.—and others have to do with someone’s gender identity or ...

With states like North Carolina insisting on turning back progress on transgender rights, influential dictionary company Merriam-Webster have just added the terms “cisgender” and “genderqueer” to its ...

"It took years for the term to take off, and it was not until 2016 that it entered both the Oxford English Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Dictionary," the author writes. I coined the term “cisgender” ...

Gender identities can be complicated — and admitting you don't understand the meanings of different terms can be hard, depending on the situation. But knowledge is power, so here is a brief ...

Elon Musk has determined “cis” and “cisgender” to be slurs that violate Twitter’s harassment policies. As such, any account engaging in harassment of users via the usage of “cis” or “cisgender” will ...

Each June we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and highlight issues faced by the community as well as triumphs overcoming them. Gender issues have come to the fore in a number of ways in recent times, ...

Elon Musk has declared the words “cis” and “cisgender” are now considered slurs on Twitter, according to a tweet the billionaire owner sent early Wednesday. The words don’t show up in any of Twitter’s ...

Earlier this year, I ran into a colleague at a conference who asked me an interesting question that I had not yet considered. This colleague had read my blog post about the exclusion of transgender ...

Millions of Americans identify as LGBTQ, and like any group, they have their own language to talk about who they are and the challenges they face in a society that doesn't fully accept or protect them ...