To put it simply, our gender expression is the gender we look like, the gender we show, what others think we are from our appearance, our sex and identity expression, the form and manner of expressing ourselves, the things we like and shape of behavior that are expected we have, imposed and we impose upon ourselves. We have masculine gender expression, the feminine gender expression and also have androgynous people, whose gender expression is a mixture, which can be variable, of the two.
LGBT Glossary
Tag: Gender expressionTo put it simply, our gender expression is the gender we look like, the gender we show, what others think we are from our appearance, our sex and identity expression, the form and manner of expressing ourselves, the things we like and shape of behavior that are expected we have, imposed and we impose upon ourselves. We have masculine gender expression, the feminine gender expression and also have androgynous people, whose gender expression is a mixture, which can be variable, of the two.
-
Androgyny
A person is androgynous when his /her gender expression is a mixture of masculine and feminine gender expression. Androgyny, even today, is confused with hermaphroditism, when both concepts refer to totally different characteristics of sexuality, since …
-
Drag queen
A Drag Queen is a quick-change artist, a man who wears women’s clothing and estrabagante to act in shows and other events, focusing on humor and exaggeration.
-
Quick-change artist
Person who wears clothes of the opposite gender driven by artistic interests. Quick-change artist, Transvestite and Drag Queen, are different things.
-
Transvestite
Person who wears clothes of the opposite sex, but do not necessarily identify with that genre. The transvestite objectives are as varied.